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Editorials
  • Published
    April 3, 2013

    Congress fears NRA more than constituents

    And yet, after the carnage in December that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the shootings of teenagers in Miami's Overtown and Liberty City, the drive-by killing of a mother talking with a friend outside her home in Liberty City -- after all of that and so much more from coast to coast -- Congress still seems unable to ban assault weapons.

  • Published
    April 2, 2013

    Our View: Time to change right-to-know exemption

    Back in 2010, the Legislature created an exemption to the state's right-to-know-law that you could drive a truck through.

  • Published
    April 1, 2013

    Children’s deaths from abuse still national shame

    * Angela Palmer, 4, burned to death in an oven in Auburn, Maine, in 1984; mother's boyfriend convicted of murder.

  • Published
    March 31, 2013

    Our Opinion: Why more kids in foster care?

    Nobody wants a youngster to be separated from his or her biological parents, but no one can say for certain why this is happening more often to Maine's children.

  • Published
    March 30, 2013

    Workers know they have too little to retire on

    The U.S. is facing a retirement crisis. The simple fact is that most workers are saving too little to retire, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute, which tracks pension issues. And workers are acutely aware of this.

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  • Published
    March 30, 2013

    Marriage good medicine for many, but not all

    There's more to the pledge to have and hold a spouse "in sickness and in health" than you might imagine.

  • Published
    March 30, 2013

    Some enemies wear same uniforms as victims

    When former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta estimated the number of unreported sexual assaults in the U.S. military to be about 19,000, it put in clear focus how prevalent the problem truly is.

  • Published
    March 29, 2013

    Inflating schools’ woes eases path to privatization

    Gov. Paul LePage's education reform conference in Augusta last week made one thing clear: The governor is less interested in improving public schools than in replacing them.

  • Published
    March 28, 2013

    Chinese leader’s state visit to Russia sends message

    As expected, President Xi Jinping's visit to Russia has achieved eye-catching results and ushered in a new era in Sino-Russian relations.

  • Published
    March 28, 2013

    Enforcing rules won’t make all poor vanish

    Some policymakers act as if they would like to make the poor disappear, as if by magic.

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