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PublishedAugust 22, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Make it hard for parents to opt out of kids’ vaccines
The United States this year is set to have the worst outbreak of whooping cough since the 1970s. From January to mid-July, there were 17,000 registered cases and nine deaths.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2012
OUR OPINION: Akin’s bizarre claim could spark talk on abortion views
At last, someone has said something in the abortion debate about which almost everyone can agree.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Boomers face uncertain retirement
Very little in the way of surprises were found in a recent survey of baby boomers conducted by the AARP, but lessons can be learned from the headlines produced by the survey.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Thank NASA for the everyday things in life
The next time you use your cellphone, watch satellite-delivered television programming, use a cordless power tool, drive on enhanced radial tires, drink a bottle of purified water or find your way with a GPS device, thank the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Tax breaks for Olympians popular, but silly
Olympic athletes are very special people, but are they more special than, say, Nobel Prize winners, or police officers, or nurses, or spiritual gurus, or brilliant inventors or researchers whose discoveries enhance our lives?
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PublishedAugust 19, 2012
OUR OPINION: Maybe we should let tolls support more of our roads
The Maine Turnpike Authority was never a model of good government in the past, but its recent handling of a toll increase is making it one.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2012
OUR OPINION: Prodigious predictor posits Senate role for King
Nate Silver, the baseball stats geek who has become an All-Star interpreter of political polls, has a record that's hard to beat.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Medicare comes to the fore as campaign issue
Until this week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had sought to make the election a referendum about just one thing: President Barack Obama's handling of the economy.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Evenings seem empty without Olympic efforts
You'd think a 17-day Olympiad couldn't stretch long enough to be habit-forming, but this week, the evenings seem awfully empty.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Truth about voter fraud
Ostensible justification for a spate of Republican-sponsored voter ID laws -- which would require voters to present government-issued photo ID at the polls -- has been the threat of voter fraud, specifically, in-person voter impersonation. It has seemed likely, given the absence of evidence of such crimes, that the threat was overstated. Now we know for sure: Such fraud virtually never takes place.
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