Facebook posts, football and food waste make our list this week.
Editorials
OUR OPINION: Sugar study shouldn’t take fun out of holidays
A group of researchers have linked sweets to a long list of illnesses besides obesity, but moderation is the key.
OUR OPINION: New rule puts people in charge of end-of-life care
Medicare’s decision last week to cover advance care planning is significant.
OUR OPINION: Map of uninsured puts Maine county in Confederacy
Washington County is the only one north of the Mason-Dixon line with 14 percent of its residents uninsured.
Criminal fees: The FCC acts to lower inmate phone charges
Outrageous financial burden limited the ability of incarcerated men and women to stay in touch with family and friends.
OUR OPINION: Planned Parenthood ‘controversy’ hindering access to health services
Lawmakers’ cooked-up investigations against Planned Parenthood are implicitly encouraging lawbreakers.
OUR OPINION: In Maine and elsewhere, poor students being left behind
Early education among reforms necessary to close the gap with their peers from higher-income households.
Two-for-one editorial: Require registration in the name of public safety
Fill in the blank yourself with either ‘drones’ or ‘guns’ and the logic still holds.
Keep guns out of children’s hands
Forty-three children 3 or younger have shot themselves or someone else this year — an average of one shooting per week.