OUR OPINION: New toll system may be answer for aging roads

Editorials

Published
September 24, 2013

OUR OPINION: New toll system may be answer for aging roads

In 2009, the state completed the reconstruction of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 295 between Topsham and Gardiner. In all, 34 miles of fresh asphalt were put down over a rebuilt roadway, at a cost of $35.3 million, paid for with federal stimulus funds.
Published
September 23, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Scooter Store saga a warning to Medicare cheats

At one time, the Scooter Store was the largest private employer in New Braunfels, Texas. It had more than 2,400 employees with national distribution.
Published
September 23, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Bigotry, stupidity often go hand in hand

To the new Miss America we offer hearty congratulations, and best wishes in her determination to ignore the psychos who have been posting racist comments online.
Published
September 22, 2013

OUR OPINION: Children not to blame for their own poverty

WHEN YOU IMAGINE the face of poverty, what do you see? Is it a senior citizen forced to chose between buying her prescriptions and filling her oil tank? Or is it a homeless man, panhandling by an intersection?
Published
September 20, 2013

Childhood vaccines reversedisease inroads

The development of vaccines against childhood illnesses is one of the great achievements of modern medicine. Diseases that cause birth defects, make children seriously ill or even kill them -- rubella, whooping cough, polio -- now can be reliably prevented.

Published
September 19, 2013

OUR OPINION: Rangers’ safety can be improved without firearms

State forest rangers, worried about their safety when patrolling the vast Maine woodlands in what they see as an increasingly dangerous world, are pushing hard for the right to carry firearms.
Published
September 18, 2013

OUR OPINION: Teacher reviews must be flexible, properly funded

The rules that will govern Maine's new teacher evaluation system remain unclear, hung up in the Legislature in a political disagreement about the role of student achievement in the evaluation formula.
Published
September 17, 2013

OUR OPINION: Hunting access energizes plan for national park

A decade ago, “Ban Roxanne” bumper stickers were a common sight from Greenville to Millinocket, and the prospect of a national park in the Katahdin Region looked dim. In spite of the opposition — largely from sportsmen, snowmobilers and the forest products industry — Elliotsville Plantation Inc., the group formed by Roxanne Quimby to manage […]
Published
September 17, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: First peaceful transition of government in Pakistan

During most of his five years as Pakistan's president, Asif Ali Zardari was so embattled that there were constant rumors that he would be killed, jailed or ousted in a military coup. On Sept. 8, he left office after a formal lunch hosted by his political rivals.
Published
September 17, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Olympic Committee right to bring back wrestling

After making a mess of things, the International Olympic Committee finally got it right.

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