OUR OPINION: Uncertainty shrouds Syria

Editorials

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.

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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