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Editorials
  • Published
    January 27, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Wind farm deal opens door for a new industry

    The Maine Public Utilities Commission should be congratulated for a forward-looking decision last week that opened the door to an emerging industry for Maine.

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Governor’s latest outburst puts Maine in bad light

    By now, Gov. Paul LePage knows how to get our attention.

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Banks cyber attacks show new level of skill

    These have not been been easy days for cyber security experts at some of the nation's leading banks. A barrage of attacks on bank networks has intensified since September, clogging websites with traffic, slowing or crashing them. The banks have not lost data, but their online services have been interrupted.

  • Published
    January 24, 2013

    Foundation shares common-sense ways to grade teachers fairly

    For years, educators have argued about the best ways to grade teachers' performance in the classroom. Some skeptics doubted it was possible to fairly evaluate teachers, partly because some teachers had brighter students while others faced classes filled with struggling kids.

  • Published
    January 24, 2013

    Enact LePage ideaabout fifth yearof high school

    A key economic development challenge for state government is providing Maine workers with the kind of education they need to fill the more technical jobs that will be created and that exist now, unfilled.

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  • Published
    January 24, 2013

    Rising suicide threat of troops needs battle plan

    While the United States's foreign wars wind down, the body count at home keeps rising. The Department of Defense said last week there were 349 suicides by active-duty members of the armed services in 2012, as opposed to 311 combat deaths.

  • Published
    January 23, 2013

    Te’o hoax was swallowed hook, line and sinker

    The lie behind the love story was exposed last week, after reporters for the sports website Deadspin asked the questions that should have been answered months ago.

  • Published
    January 22, 2013

    Obama message less hopeful, more realistic

    This was not supposed to be as big a moment as the last one. President Barack Obama's second inaugural would be witnessed by a smaller crowd than his first. It would not be as historic because it would be the second time an African American took the presidential oath, not the first.

  • Published
    January 21, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: US ready to leave Afghanistan to Afghans

    President Barack Obama is accelerating one of his biggest and riskiest foreign pledges: a withdrawal from Afghanistan that will hand the fighting to Afghan troops by spring instead of summer with nearly all U.S. forces gone by the end of this year.

  • Published
    January 21, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Wal-Mart’s hiring of veterans no publicity stunt

    Like any successful company, Wal-Mart knows a public relations coup when it sees one.