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Editorials
  • Published
    June 5, 2013

    Yard sales: Thrill of victory, but mostly agony of defeat

    A recent hilarious account of yard sales by J.P. Devine in this newspaper brought back a lot of memories -- most of them bad. In 1998 my family hosted its first -- and last -- yard sale at our Mount Vernon home. Son Josh was 16 and daughter Hilary 13 at the time.

  • Published
    June 5, 2013

    Bechard ruling is the right call

    Seventeen years ago, Mark Bechard killed two Waterville nuns. He was found not criminally responsible by reason of mental illness and committed to a state psychiatric hospital.

  • Published
    June 4, 2013

    College affordability: Big picture ignored

    Congress is again debating what to do about interest rates for federal student loans, which are set to double July 1, to 6.8 percent. Several proposed solutions are being debated, but none tackles the real issue: skyrocketing college costs.

  • Published
    June 4, 2013

    Mainers’ health political football for Legislature

    Politics gets a lot of bad press these days. It's usually a code word for officials positioning themselves for the next election when they should be looking out for the people they represent.

  • Published
    June 2, 2013

    Bipartisan energy bill would lower rates

    Big things can start small. That was the hope Friday, when the nation's first floating wind turbine was lowered into the Penobscot River, to be towed to a mooring off Castine.

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  • Published
    May 29, 2013

    CORRECTION

    The sponsor of L.D. 90, the workforce training bill in the Legislature, is Senate President Justin Alfond. An editorial on page A5 of Tuesday's newspaper misidentified the sponsor. It was an editorial writer's error.

  • Published
    May 28, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Worker training bill exemplifies process at best

    Sometimes state government gets it right. A bipartisan group of legislators came together to work on a problem, not further an agenda. They listened to the experts and the people directly affected before they wrote a bill.

  • Published
    May 28, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: IRS’ leaders had plenty of opportunities to come clean

    Why didn't Congress know earlier that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny? In days of hearings, lawmakers have tried to get a satisfactory answer from witnesses under oath. They haven't succeeded.

  • Published
    May 27, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Claims backlog a disservice to military vets

    On this Memorial Day, the plight of Americans who have borne the burden of fighting our wars should be uppermost in the minds of their countrymen.

  • Published
    May 26, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Heart disease, not cancer, No. 1 threat to women

    This disease is the No. 1 killer of American women older than 25.

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