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Editorials

Published
June 25, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: ‘You’re Not Special’ was ice water in grads’ faces

By now, you've probably heard about the graduation speech offered by David McCullough, an English teacher at Wellesley High School outside Boston.
Published
June 25, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Surveillance drones have many possible uses

Americans are leery about the use of domestic drones as the Federal Aviation Administration takes on the task of developing plans to open U.S. skies to the domestic use of the unmanned aircraft by police, other agencies and individuals.
Published
June 24, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Japan needs to help solve tsunami debris problem

Millions of tons of debris that washed into the Pacific Ocean after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami last year are drifting ever closer to North America or turning up on its shores.
Published
June 24, 2012

OUR OPINION: As long as we need cars, we need to fix roads

Mainers love their cars and trucks but hate roads. At least they hate paying for them.
Published
June 23, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Middle class was collateral damage in collapse of housing market

Another week, another depressing economic statistic: American families earning the median household income had two decades' worth of prosperity wiped out between 2007 and 2010.

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Published
June 22, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Holder should give Congress gun-sting memos

Democrats say efforts by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over a botched gun-sting operation are a partisan stunt.
Published
June 21, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Farm bill that sacrifices food stamps shouldn’t pass

Too many Americans are still out of work to justify cuts to the food stamp program. Democrats and Republicans banded together in the Senate to defeat an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to slash spending on the program nearly in half.
Published
June 21, 2012

OUR OPINION: Furnishing teens place to drink violates law

A Falmouth couple faces criminal charges, and the rest of Maine is being reminded of a message that everyone should have gotten a long time ago.
Published
June 20, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Freedom of religion isn’t really under attack

Is religious freedom suddenly under attack in America? That's what the nation's Roman Catholic bishops and some non-Catholic allies would have you believe. But reports of the demise of this fundamental liberty are greatly exaggerated.
Published
June 20, 2012

OUR OPINION: We’re sending wrong message to tech economy

Maine's emerging technology economy took another kick in the teeth Monday, when Betsy Biemann unceremoniously vanished from her post as president of the Maine Technology Institute.