Editorials

Published
January 18, 2011

Our View: More should join move for bipartisan seating at speech

The State of the Union address is a great opportunity for Congress to display unity.
Published
January 17, 2011

Our View: Maine can’t stand still in school reform efforts

While other states improve, Maine is in a holding pattern, and slipping in the rankings.
Published
January 16, 2011

Another View: Postal Service is changing to meet marketplace’s demands

A recent editorial identified the right problem, but missed the solutions.
Published
January 16, 2011

Our Views: Small-scale proposal big idea on power use

The deal offered to some wind farm neighbors provides a model of how to heat with electricity.
Published
January 15, 2011

Our View: The whole world is listening, Gov. LePage

The governor undermines his own agenda when he makes comments like Friday's.

Published
January 14, 2011

Our View: Obama struckright note in Tucson speech

President Obama said what needed to be said Wednesday night at a service for the slain and injured of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage. "At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -- at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do -- it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."
Published
January 13, 2011

Our View: Attorney general right to join Obamacare suit

Critics are making a judgment call, but are not the ones with the power to settle the question.
Published
January 12, 2011

Our View: Don’t overreactto new fluoride studies

The debate over fluoridation of water got some new life last week when the federal government issued new guidelines for the use of fluoride in public water systems. Maine officials followed up a few days later with the announcement that the state would call for a reduction in the fluoride added to municipal water systems to prevent tooth decay. Fluoride has been controversial since its introduction into water systems in the 1940s. Generations of grass-roots activists have said it causes everything from cancer to communism.
Published
January 11, 2011

Our View: Critics too quickto find politics behind shooting

When faced with a crime as horrible as last weekend's mass killing in Arizona, it's human nature to look for a villain as big as the crime. Before accurate details emerged about the rampage, in which a clearly troubled young man opened fire on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gravely wounding her, killing six bystanders and injuring 13 others, attempts were being made to put this act into a bigger political context. Talk radio, the tea party and un-civil political discourse were batted around as contributing factors in the case even before the media on the scene could consistently report whether the shooter had acted with an accomplice or if Giffords was alive or dead.
Published
January 10, 2011

Another View: Immigration reform needed, but DREAM Act flawed, Collins says

The bill did not get the debate in the Senate it needed to fix the problems that it contained.

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