MAINE COMPASS: Same-day registration ban doesn’t keep eligible citizens from voting

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Published
August 6, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Same-day registration ban doesn’t keep eligible citizens from voting

Kay Rand last month wrote a column about changes to Maine's voter registration law. The headline captured the tone of the piece: "Repeal of same-day registration a shameful law enacted out of fear."
Published
August 6, 2011

DANA MILBANK: Fla. Republican opts against bayonet charge up Capitol Hill

Who would've thought Allen West would go squishy? During the Florida Republican's successful campaign for the House, West became a tea party sensation with his speech urging supporters to take up arms against "a tyrannical government."
Published
August 6, 2011

COMMENTARY: This summer’s heat just part of the picture

It's too darn hot. From Maine to Hawaii, the mercury has been stuck on high. The oven-like conditions in the United States are just the latest in a series of extreme weather events over the past year -- epic floods in Pakistan and Australia, record heat waves in Moscow, the heaviest snowfall in more than a century in South Korea.
Published
August 6, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Children, seniors, letter carriers often targets of dog attacks

More than 4.7 million people -- including children and the elderly -- are bitten by dogs each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's nearly 2 percent of the American population.
Published
August 5, 2011

DENIS THOET: No brave new world in 1984, but we have pieces of both visions

They shall beat their swords into plowshares -- and proceed to destroy the earth by plowing, tilling, drenching the ground with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and planting genetically modified crops.

Published
August 4, 2011

ANTHONY RONZIO: Silence of ocean darkness split by a scream, then a crash

Some stories stick with you. For me, it's the saga of the Starbound.
Published
August 3, 2011

GEORGE SMITH: People change the subject when they have no valid counterpoint

When politicians and government officials can't win an argument, they often change the subject. Here are two recent examples.
Published
August 2, 2011

DAVID OFFER: Nastiness of Wisconsin politics rivals that in Washington, D.C.

MILWAUKEE -- If you thought political nastiness was confined to Washington, D.C., visit Wisconsin this summer.
Published
August 1, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Opposing US trade policy is pro-worker, not anti-trade

As chairman of the House Trade Working Group, I am often portrayed as anti-trade. Nothing could be further from the truth. Trade always has been and will continue to be a pillar of American ideals and commerce, and I strongly support it. What I don't support is blindly pursuing the same trade policy that we've pursued for decades without analyzing how we can make it work better and improve our economy.
Published
July 31, 2011

KAY RAND: Successful commissioners master a precarious balancing act

Resignations from Gov. Paul LePage's cabinet prompted some thoughts about the precarious balancing act by successful commissioners of state agencies.