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PublishedFebruary 13, 2013
Traditionalist Pope Benedictbreaks tradition
In nearly eight years as pope, Benedict XVI embraced a traditionalist -- and to many critics, authoritarian -- view of both the papacy and of church teaching. So it's ironic that he will be remembered for his revolutionary decision to relinquish the Chair of St. Peter rather than die in office, the first such abdication in nearly 600 years.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2013
OUR OPINION: Criminals use, abuse private gun sale loophole
According to the National Rifle Association, background checks of gun buyers can never be universal because criminals will never submit to them.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Richard III deserves reburial full of pomp
The forensic dramas that have become so popular on our TV screens in recent years have whetted the public's appetite for this particularly morbid line in detective work, but the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park trumps any work of fiction. It ranks as one of the most dramatic archaeological discoveries of modern times.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Athletes who risk health in order to compete
The only person to win the Tour de France seven times in a row admits to taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: She’s talking about a bubble gun, for Pete’s sake
Grown-ups sure are funny people. Funny ha ha, no. Just weird. They say things like they mean it and then they do something just the opposite.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2013
OUR OPINION: Passenger rail has a future in Maine, US
The riders on the nation's first high-speed bullet train are likely to travel California's central valley between Fresno and Bakersfield. It's not because these two farming communities are experiencing a traffic problem, or that tourists are dying to visit the Buck Owens' Crystal Palace Museum and Restaurant.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2013
OUR OPINION: Judicial confirmations shouldn’t be this hard
We wonder what the 12 Maine lawyers assembled to review candidates to fill the next vacancy on the U.S. District Court will say to those candidates.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Tea party echoes NRA arguments
An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Capitol had just one thing on their minds: Guns.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: GOP immigration ‘compromise’ plan is really no plan at all
United States House Republicans came eyeball to eyeball with sweeping immigration reform Tuesday, and they blinked.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2013
OUR OPINION: Free large-scale WiFi zones would be great equalizer
Should the United States give away a public asset and allow the creation of free wireless networks all across the nation?
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