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Editorials

Published
March 5, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Iran ratchets up tensions in the region

Iran is turning a wheel with four spokes to ratchet up tension in the region.
Published
March 5, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Coal worse for climate change than oil sands

Andrew Weaver, the respected Canada research chair in Climate Modeling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, and a lead author with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recently confirmed what we've been saying for a long time: The demonization of Alberta's oil sands is vastly disproportionate to its actual impact.
Published
March 4, 2012

OUR OPINION: If MSHA reform bill isn’t political, prove it

A bill designed to reform the Maine State Housing Authority has been criticized here and elsewhere as a blatant attempt to politicize an independent state agency.
Published
March 4, 2012

OUR OPINION: Please keep spirit of legislative compromise alive

Unlike their dysfunctional cousins in Washington, the members of the Maine Legislature have managed to steer clear from the kind of partisanship that gives politics a bad name.
Published
March 2, 2012

OUR OPINION: 2 weeks enough time for hopefuls to gather names

Sometimes the best move is no move at all.Gov. Paul LePage made the right choice by staying out of an effort to extend the deadline for candidates hoping get a seat in the game of political musical chairs created by Sen. Olympia Snowe's retirement surprise.

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Published
March 1, 2012

OUR OPINION; Real threat of violence, ‘joke’ have same result

A teacher being issued a summons for making a joke about having his students shot? It sound outrageous. It sounds absurd.
Published
February 29, 2012

OUR OPINION: Snowe’s decision to give up fight setback for Maine

If Sen. Olympia Snowe is really retiring from the U.S. Senate because she can't stand the poisonous partisanship in Congress -- and we have no reason to doubt her word on that score -- then Maine is paying a terrible price for the rancor that has become business as usual in Washington, D.C.
Published
February 28, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Some companies won’t hire people without jobs

The labor market has always had one particularly frustrating conundrum: Young would-be workers say that employers won't hire them because they lack experience, but without that job they can't get experience.
Published
February 28, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Single motherhood:issue is economics

If motherhood before marriage is the new norm for U.S. women under age 30, it's urgent to find out why.
Published
February 27, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Construction projects didn’t waste stimulus funds

It's a given, during the presidential primary debates, that the billions of federal "stimulus" dollars were wasted. That money was said to be gone, vanished, and for no good purpose.