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PublishedFebruary 26, 2013
OUR OPINION: State prison’s new warden has right background
Corrections is the part of state government that most people would like to forget. Stories showing that prisons are dangerous places seem fair to some, who think that's how justice is delivered.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Same-old, same-old Washington
One only had to watch the contrast between Joe Biden and John Boehner during the State of the Union to know that any lessons learned from the November election have been forgotten.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Institution of marriage fading in mid-America
The University of Virginia's National Marriage Project has released another disturbing report. It reiterates that marriage remains strong for college-educated couples -- but it's disintegrating in "Middle America," the nearly 60 percent of the populace with only high school diplomas.
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Olympic wrestling an endangered sport
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 12 chose 25 out of the 26 sports contested in the 2012 London Olympics as core sports for the 2020 Olympics and added wrestling to the seven shortlisted sports "vying for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program as an additional sport."
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2013
OUR OPINION: Job loss an unwanted side effect of medical pot
The disconnect between federal law and state law when it comes to marijuana was on display again last week in a lawsuit filed by a Pittsfield woman who says she lost her job for receiving medical care.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2013
OUR OPINION: Cellphone bill not perfect, but was partial fix
You can't legislate good driving or common sense, according to Rep. Wayne Parry, an Arundel Republican on the Legislature's Transportation Committee.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Pistorius’ girlfriend probably wouldn’t have died if gun hadn’t been handy
We don't know whether Oscar Pistorius meant to kill his girlfriend in his South Africa home recently or just shot at what he thought was a burglar in his bathroom, as he claims.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: EPA botches oversight of car mileage claims
Indeed, the mileage claims made by automakers play a key role in a multibillion-dollar industry that deserves close government scrutiny. But what happens when the regulators fall down on the job?
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Environmentally sound reasons to approve Keystone pipeline
Americans who are concerned about pollution and climate change have traditionally stood with science, in particular the consensus that greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are warming the earth and changing the climate.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Must winter storms have their own names?
The creeping acceptance of a mercenary scheme to name winter storms is not among the most important things in the news, or even the weather. But like an ill wind, it carries an unmistakable whiff of chaos and dissipation.
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