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Editorials

Published
August 9, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Cyber threat remains high with failure of Collins’ bill

In the final weeks before Congress left for its August break, U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., took a gamble. They watered down their own cybersecurity legislation in hopes of winning passage.
Published
August 9, 2012

OUR OPINION: Calling on all Maine patriots: Eat more lobster

As tensions heat up on both sides of the Canadian border about a glut of low-cost Maine lobster being kept out of New Brunswick processing plants, there is something every Maine patriot should do: Eat more lobster.
Published
August 8, 2012

OUR OPINION: Attack on King really a defense of negative ad

Give Charlie Summers' campaign staffers credit for diligent research.
Published
August 7, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Cut back on corn for ethanol, not conservation

Congress' response to the drought afflicting the farm belt gets curiouser and curiouser. By now it's clear that the main impact is on the corn crop, about 40 percent of which usually goes to feed cows, pigs and chickens. As supply shrinks, prices spike, and producers of meat and poultry get hit.
Published
August 6, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Ugly truth: More Americans becoming poor

There's an ugly truth that keeps nagging us. As much as we might like to, it cannot be ignored.

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Published
August 6, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Offshore accounts huge hole in world economy

Some staggering figures on tax evasion were revealed by British economist James Henry in a report titled "The Price of Offshore Revisited."
Published
August 6, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Terrorist attack at ’72 Olympics ignored

Confronted with one of the largest television audiences in history, Olympic organizers could've made a statement for peace.
Published
August 5, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Citizens United decision worked out just fine for GOP

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the now-infamous Citizens United ruling that unleashed a deluge of unaccountable corporate cash into the political system, the court had a pollyannaish view of what would happen next.
Published
August 5, 2012

OUR OPINION: Quality of UMaine education ought not be surprise

University of Maine President Paul Ferguson said he repeatedly heard two things before he moved east from California to take the top job at Maine's flagship university.
Published
August 5, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Badminton … ethics?

The Olympics audience came to see the best in the world play badminton. Yes, it is an Olympic sport. Instead they saw athletes serving into the net and duffing shots out of bounds, just like, well, backyard amateurs.