Editorials
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2011
Another View: Columnist shows Republicans don’t serve everyone’s interests
The idea that GOP lawmakers should use their majority for party goals is narrow-minded.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2011
Our View: Holding EPA’s smog rules until 2013 a wise move
President Obama looked at the nation's larger interests and came down on the right side.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2011
Our View: Obama’s jobs speech may involve politics, but its timing shouldn’t
Because Democrats and Republicans both made bad choices, the presidency was diminished.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2011
Our View: Space station out of reach? How did that happen?
Missions that carried humans to the moon, and unmanned probes that have contributed immensely to our familiarity with our sun's family of planets and moons, comets and asteroids, have greatly increased the sum of human knowledge.<br><br>Why is it that, seemingly almost overnight, we appear to have abandoned any effort to send people into space?
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2011
Our View: Lessons learned from the demolition of Union Station
Historic buildings don't just give the city character, they also add to its bottom line.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2011
Our View: State took the right riskwith paper mill landfill
Sometimes you have to take a risk, and sometimes big risks pay off in a big way.<br /><br />That certainly looks like the result of the big chance Maine took this winter in regard to the Katahdin region paper mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket.<br><br>Facing the dismantling of the two mills, the permanent loss of hundreds of good manufacturing jobs and a way of life for a whole community, Gov. LePage and the Legislature gave . . .
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PublishedAugust 31, 2011
Our View: No winners yetin redistricting gridlock
One side tried to palm it off as a victory – "Democrats praise reapportionment commission vote" – but there was no putting a happy face on the ugly truth: Congressional redistricting in Maine is mired in partisan quicksand. If the two parties were any farther from a compromise, one of them would be in Massachusetts.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2011
Our View: Helping keep small airports open is worthwhile
If our taxes can pave roads and pay for air controllers, they can aid small airports, too.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2011
Our View: Maine parties draw’line in the sand’ over congressional maps
As the days dwindle down to a precious few – to be precise, a precious two – the 15 members of the state's Congressional Reapportionment Commission remained unable Monday to reach a compromise on drawing the boundary between Maine's two congressional districts.<br><br>The commission's Republican and Democratic members apparently are still miles apart (at least on the map) as to where the district line should go.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2011
Our View: Hiring investigators should be justified
Tripling the number of DHHS agents should not be done if it won't result in savings.
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