VIEW FROM AWAY: If it’s a problem, don’t call it an issue

Editorials

Published
May 1, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: If it’s a problem, don’t call it an issue

The computer-scanning software finished and announced its result: 39 issues detected.
Published
April 30, 2013

OUR OPINION: Compromise is not a ‘sin,’ governor

Gov. Paul LePage has made paying Maine's debt to hospitals his top policy priority. He says that paying for services already rendered is not only the right thing to do, it would be good for the state's economy.
Published
April 29, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Muslim cleric helps thwart Toronto terror plot

As the shock of Canada's brush with an alleged al-Qaida-directed terror plot recedes, it's comforting to learn that a prominent Toronto Muslim cleric played a key role in foiling the attack. More than a year ago he alerted the authorities to someone he felt was an extremist who was radicalizing young people.
Published
April 29, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Earth Day challenges China, world to do better

Earth Day was celebrated around the globe on April 22. That's as it should be, as scientists find more ways that pollution, energy production, climate change and other issues such as recycling are interconnected.
Published
April 29, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Militant Islam a world danger

The world may never know for sure whether the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Published
April 28, 2013

OUR OPINION: Robbing Peter to pay Paul not a fair tax plan

When it's time to pay, people don't really care who collects their taxes. Whether it's a check to the town office for property taxes, or an additional 5 percent on the bill at a checkout line or a deduction from your weekly pay, it's all money going out to support the activities of government, either at the state, local or federal levels.
Published
April 27, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: How about fireworks control?

Let us beat the gun-rights crowd to the punch and agree with them right here and now that firearms aren't the only dangerous devices out there in dire need of greater regulation. It seems that certain types of fireworks may need to be added to that list, too.
Published
April 26, 2013

Is FBI focusing sufficiently on real bad guys?Collins asks if breakdown exists in ‘critical information-sharing’

Law enforcement agencies can't be expected to stop every terrorist attack, any more than they can prevent every mass shooting.
Published
April 26, 2013

A world free of genocide

When the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened 20 years ago, there were questions about its mission and whether it belonged so near the Mall. The events took place in Europe; the victims were concentrated in one ethnic group; was this really an American story?
Published
April 25, 2013

Airport delays: Sequestion at work

Nobody likes to wait in an airport line. No one wants his or her flight canceled. It's bad for business when people spend time sitting in airports when they should be at meetings. It's no fun to miss important family events.

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