Editorials
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PublishedJune 29, 2011
Our View: Police chief gotPortland moving on right track
Just two years after riding into town, Police Chief James Craig is on his way out again, leaving southern Maine for southern Ohio.<br><br> Craig was brought to a department in need of a shake-up. After 17 years under the command of Michael Chitwood and three years of his successor Timothy Burton, Chitwood's deputy chief, the department needed a new perspective. And Craig, who had been a command officer in the city of Los Angeles' war on gangs, had that.<br><br> Craig brought in new techniques, including methods of measuring crime and apportioning resources based on computer-aided analysis. He introduced technology, like non-lethal Taser stun guns for officers, that was new to the department but common elsewhere.
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PublishedJune 29, 2011
Our View: USM’s Pioneers Program prepares the way for jobs
The new science and technology honors program will benefit students and businesses.
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PublishedJune 28, 2011
Our View: More new cars’ wheel deals add up to four, not five
If something rarely or never gets used, there isn't much reason to keep on selling it.
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PublishedJune 28, 2011
Our View: Maine Clean Electionslaw will need full review
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling handed down Monday that could directly impact a provision of a Maine law has free speech advocates responding on both sides of the issue.<br><br> The U.S. Supreme Court overturned on First Amendment grounds part of an Arizona law that provided publicly funded political candidates "matching funds" when their privately funded opponents spent more than they did.<br><br> Like Maine's Clean Elections Act, Arizona's statute aimed at "leveling the playing field" between candidates who took private funds and ones taking a fixed amount from public sources. Similar laws exist in New Mexico, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
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PublishedJune 27, 2011
Our View: Politics rule in debate over federal debt limit
Instead of solving the nation's problems, Congress is getting ready for the next election.
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PublishedJune 26, 2011
Our View: Gambling referendums have created a regulatory mess
Because Maine's leaders failed to act, only the marketplace can sort out this situation.
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PublishedJune 26, 2011
Our View: Plenty of time to redistrict for 2012
With only two congressional districts, dividing the state map shouldn't take two years.
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PublishedJune 26, 2011
Our View: State’s ‘fix’ of medical pot law leaves major problem unsolved
As long as using cannabis is still a violation of federal law, no state protections are enough.
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PublishedJune 25, 2011
Our View: Congress Street planneeds more work
Something has been missing from the public hearings on a proposed plan to ease congestion on Congress Street: the public.
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PublishedJune 25, 2011
Another View: Short-sighted energy policies in the ’90s led to current situation
Angus King's advocacy for wind power does not explain how things got this way.
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