Editorials - Portland Press Herald

Another View: Portland wrong to try to control outdoor smoking

by THOMAS GRIBBIN March 24, 2013

A law against eating snow would have more impact than further restrictions on smokers.

by HAROLD McWILLIAMS March 23, 2013

It’s not the ratio of births to deaths but a lack of good jobs that makes Maine stagnate.

It was right for authorities to enforce the law, even though the appropriate penalty was light.

Corrections officials should be upset about what a video shows, not who released it.

Cuts in government spending do not do the economic damage that tax increases cause.

The sequester cuts may not be large, but they interfere with the delivery of services we need.

by Ronald Nicholas March 21, 2013

We would all be safer if no one knew who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Money paid to minimum-wage workers would create more demand for goods and services.

One open primary that selects candidates for the November ballot could improve the process.

by Stephen Gorden March 19, 2013

Regional collaboration at the county level would lower the costs of services and taxes.