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Editorials
Opinions from the Portland Press Herald editorial board.
Our View: Forum chance to vent on No Child Left Behind
The unpopular federal education law will be the subject of a meeting in Portland on Wednesday.
Our View: Treasurer taking cheap shots at housing agency
Poliquin’s grandstanding doesn’t address the policy that makes affordable housing expensive.
Our View: Vaccine trend needlessly exposes children to disease
Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children put them and others at risk.
Another View: Harmon misrepresents truth in column on climate change
Scientists’ emails arguing over the contents of a report do not prove the existence of a hoax.
Another Voice: Main Street should share blame
All the crimes and excesses of the last decades were not committed in lower Manhattan.
Our View: Driver texting study shows law not enough
It will take a massive public education campaign to change this dangerous behavior.
Our View: Slow end of Occupy camp signaled by council vote
But the group still has a chance to spread its message by engaging in dialogue with the city.
Another View: Little for administration to cheer in state’s slow job growth
Gov. LePage’s economic development chief may claim progress, but the numbers aren’t there.
LePage’s MaineCare plan no way to cut costs
With higher premiums and lost federal funding, Maine can’t afford these ‘savings.’