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PublishedMarch 22, 2013
How much information needed for voters to prove citizenship?
Can the state of Arizona require people to prove they are citizens when they register to vote? That's the question the Supreme Court considered on Monday, when it heard oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging Arizona's Proposition 200, a ballot measure adopted in 2004.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2013
Preserving criminal defendants’ right to a lawyer for 50 years
Imagine yourself being arrested for a crime. You are summoned before a judge. Presenting the case against you is a prosecutor, who represents the government and its immense power and legitimacy.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2013
CPR isn’t always the right medicine
The 911 call last month that led to an emergency dispatcher begging workers at a Bakersfield, Calif., senior living facility to perform CPR on a woman captured the attention of the public. A staff worker told the dispatcher it was against the facility's policy to intervene. The woman, Lorraine Bayless, died.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2013
Woods’ arrogant planundervalues small towns
Rural cleansing. That will be Steve Woods' economic plan, should he be elected governor. You may remember Woods as an independent candidate who dropped out of the U.S. Senate campaign in its final days last year.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2013
Conservatives can’t accept voters aren’t buying what they’re selling
If last week's Conservative Political Action Conference were a papal conclave, black smoke would be billowing from the chimney at the Gaylord Convention Center.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2013
Actor’s TV role a launching pad for victim’s advocacy group
Mariska Hargitay, better known as "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Detective Olivia Benson, is the human intersection of life and art.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
Increasing cost of creating jobs is unwise in poor economy
In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 per hour, President Barack Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have to live in poverty."
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
US should codify use of drones in war
In choice of both topic and foil, Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile through your kitchen -- you, a good citizen of Topeka to whom POTUS might have taken a dislike -- while you're cooking up a pot roast?
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
Higher minimum wage would restore true value of work
Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
Parable of Steel: How do we keep others from making our rebar?
The other day I was talking to some University of Southern Maine folks about our budget challenges in future years and how we would deal with them, when a member of the group brought up Clayton Christenson's work about disruptive innovation.
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