Editorials
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2011
Our View: Court doing its jobin health reform case
If you don't like the federal health care program signed into law by President Obama last March – and count us among those who don't – Monday's decision by a federal judge in Florida was good news.<br><br> U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson declared the entire law unconstitutional – not just the part of the law that requires all Americans to buy health insurance. The purchase mandate was the key provision in Vinson's decision, but the judge said, in effect, that if that part of the law was bad, the whole thing was bad.<br><br> He had a point; when Congress was debating health care reform, many of its supporters argued that the law couldn't work unless everyone was required to participate.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2011
Our View: Gov. LePage’s news-phobiaa conversation stopper
For those of us in the business of writing newspaper editorials, the news out of Gov. Paul LePage's office gets worse and worse.<br><br> First, he declared in his widely watched and much-discussed inaugural address that he doesn't care about editorials. We were hurt, of course. It would be one thing if the governor had said he doesn't like editorials – but doesn't care?
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2011
Our View: ‘Neighborhood prosecutor’ taking nibbles out of crime
Serious offenses can often be forestalled by improving a community's overall atmosphere.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2011
Our View: Rule rollbacks give something for nothing
Businesses should have to say what's in it for Maine if we cut back environmental protection.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2011
Our View: Cutler Files a sorry blot on Maine’s tradition
Neither the perpetrators nor the investigators covered themselves in glory in this episode.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2011
Our View: Leaked memo puts governor’s intentions into question
Boasting that the bureaucracy will help Republican campaigns crosses a line.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2011
Another View: Germany’s quick recovery due to more than recent budget cuts
A column credits austerity measures but ignores socialist policies that helped the German economy.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2011
Our View: Lawmakers should not abandon law for Peaks
There is a process outlined in statute for secession. It should be followed in this case.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2011
Our View: Downtown train station a worthy subject for study
Trains can take you to the heart of the city, but only if that's where the station is built.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2011
Our View: Treasurer should not play politics with debt
Exaggerating Maine's pension problems could send the wrong message to investors.
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