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Editorials
  • Published
    September 2, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: US should clean up bombs left in Vietnam

    The United States has a moral responsibility to step up efforts to identify, defuse and collect unexploded ordnance that U.S. armed forces rained down on Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

  • Published
    September 2, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Obama has sensible plan to rate colleges

    In a recent speech in Syracuse, N.Y., President Barack Obama offered up one fact that speaks volumes about what has gone wrong with higher education: During the past three decades, the average price of a four-year degree at a public university has risen by 250 percent, while average family income has risen by just 16 percent.

  • Published
    September 1, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Maine schools need real help, not faulty grades

    The A-F school grading system unveiled in May by Gov. Paul LePage is meant to identify underperforming schools and hold them accountable for improvement.

  • Published
    August 31, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Stage set for another round of partisan wrangling about money

    Unless Congress acts, the U.S. government will hit its $16.7 trillion borrowing limit by mid-October.

  • Published
    August 30, 2013

    OUR OPINION: District 19 election wasn’t start of campaign season

    A lot of numbers have been thrown around in an attempt to analyze Tuesday's special election in Senate District 19: the nearly 50 percent of the vote by victorious Democrat Eloise Vitelli, a newcomer to political office; and the more than $150,000 spent in a race that drew 9,317 votes. Most of the money was spent linking the Republican candidate, Paula Benoit, to Gov. Paul LePage.

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  • Published
    August 30, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Welfare cheat stereotype hard to shake

    Stereotypes die hard as long as there are people willing to believe them. The story about the welfare cheat never seems to go out of style.

  • Published
    August 30, 2013

    Correction: Editorial about unfit housing units

    An editorial about housing in Augusta ("Old housing in dire need of attention") in Thursday's Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel misreported the number of buildings declared unfit for occupancy in the last year. According to the city, the correct number is seven entire buildings and one floor of an additional building, for a total of 42 residential units.

  • Published
    August 29, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Town volunteer crosses line conveying hope Obama gets shot

    The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech have been welcome reminders about how far we have come on our journey as a nation committed to equality and justice.

  • Published
    August 29, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Old housing in dire need of attention

    Last Friday morning, the tenants of 9 Laurel St. in Augusta were told their building was unfit for occupancy. They had to be out by that afternoon.

  • Published
    August 28, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: No page left unturned if by or to Abraham Lincoln

    For more than a decade, the staff at the Papers of Abraham Lincoln Project has sifted through 550 repositories and private collections in 47 states, attempting to locate every document written by or to the nation's 16th president.