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Editorials
  • Published
    September 9, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: NFL brain injury settlement too small

    The National Football League has begun play in earnest, and across the nation millions of Americans will welcome another season of this thrilling, but violent sport.

  • Published
    September 9, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Could basketball lead to US-North Korea thaw?

    Kim Jong-un is once again playing host to Dennis Rodman. The United States basketball player, though on a private sojourn to the Stalinist state, has stirred the media over his possible role as an emissary to build bridges between Pyongyang and Washington.

  • Published
    September 8, 2013

    OUR OPINION: UMaine wind plan should be open to public scrutiny

    People usually have only one reason to hide something -- when they have something to hide.

  • Published
    September 7, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Let nurse practitioners work without supervision

    Whatever its flaws, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has sparked innovation across the U.S.'s sclerotic health-care system. An especially welcome example is the push to expand the role of nurse practitioners in primary care.

  • Published
    September 6, 2013

    OUR OPINION: School standards must be made clear

    Maine adopted the Common Core education standards about two years ago to relatively little reaction. Since then, though, critics have assailed the standards, and with a drive under way to put an initiative repealing the standards on the 2014 ballot, the debate will only grow in intensity.

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  • Published
    September 6, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Uncertainty shrouds Syria

    Elected officials are not bound to follow the wishes of their constituents. Public opinion plays a role in their decision-making process, but in the end it is their duty to vote based on their conscience and the best available information.

  • Published
    September 5, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Health of loons indicates health of our resources

    Loons stricken with lead poisoning die slowly and painfully. It's no surprise that those who have seen it firsthand recognize the tragedy in what is a wholly preventable death.

  • Published
    September 4, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Saving sites with historic value can be source of pride

    With the addition last week of 12 properties, including the Kennebec Arsenal in Augusta and the Stevens School in Hallowell, more than 100 sites have been included on the list of the state's most endangered historic properties since its inception.

  • Published
    September 4, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Still silent about N. Korea’s death camps

    Camp No. 22 covered some 775 square miles, a larger geographic expanse than London, New York or Los Angeles.

  • Published
    September 3, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Judge’s apology as insulting as rapist’s sentence

    The apology by a Montana judge for his appallingly ignorant comments that blamed the young victim of the man being sentenced for her rape is meaningless. It is also as insulting as his original remarks. That's because worse than the comments were the scant 30 days in jail for the rapist, an absurd sentence that the judge has continued to defend as appropriate.