Affordable, energy-efficient homes are striking a chord — but the state should help with transit.
Editorials
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Vacant building ordinance, safety for visitors to farms, gaps in government record-keeping in the news this week.
OUR OPINION: LePage’s drug summit should not end with same old plan
Law enforcement officials are increasingly open to working with treatment providers, and the governor should listen.
Grizzly executed for being a bear
Yellowstone is not Disney World, but a wild preserve where dangerous animals roam freely.
OUR OPINION: Vaccine order protects child in custody case
In this case, parental rights have yielded to the state’s determination that a little boy isn’t being cared for properly.
OUR OPINION: False rape allegation should not diminish concern for victims
Unreported sexual assaults, not false reports, are the real problem.
Medicare should rethink its three-day hospital stay
Hospital stays are about 10 percent shorter for people enrolled in insurance plans that did not require the minimum three-day hospitalization.
OUR OPINION: In Burton case, making sense of a senseless act
Stephanie Gebo’s death is a reminder of how hard it is for someone to leave an abuser, and how dangerous it can be once they do.
OUR OPINION: Maine, not feds, at fault in Riverview funding mess
The DHHS commissioner is blaming others when she should be focusing on competent management.
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Trouble in Anson, women in Ranger School make the news this week.