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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Sensible to send part of Mighty Mississippi west
For years, upriver and downriver interests have argued about use of Missouri River water. Now a third option looms that could confound the issue further: diversion of water to parched Western states by way of a pipeline.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Cancer drug shortages can be deadly to kids
Disgraceful. That's the best description of the findings released recently that show unnecessary and damaging shortages of some cancer-treating drugs have led to relapses among some kids fighting cancer at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and elsewhere.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Schwarzkopf: Right man at the right time
He may have channeled the no-nonsense fighting spirit and know-how of Gen. George S. Patton. He might have been this generation's Dwight D. Eisenhower -- a military hero-turned president -- if he'd had the personal ambition.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2013
OUR OPINION: Find out why people move here; build on it
To the people who moved to Maine in 2012: Welcome, we're glad you are here.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2013
OUR OPINION: Let’s hope Snowe’s spirit of compromise will live on in Congress
An era ended on Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed a hastily negotiated deal to take the nation off the brink of automatic spending cuts and tax increases that could have sent the economy back into recession.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Expectations of privacy vs. the reality
A newspaper in White Plains, N.Y., stirred up local gun owners -- as well as an angry debate on the Web -- by publishing an interactive map showing the names and addresses of people with permits to own handguns.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Solution to natural disasters is a national catastrophe fund
The storm of outrage triggered by House Republican leaders' failure earlier this week to take up a $60 billion measure for superstorm Sandy relief was remarkable for its ferocity.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2013
OUR OPINION: Fiscal cliff ‘deal’ only a respite, with a black eye
While members of Congress were fighting about marginal tax rates on income between $200,000 and $450,000 per year, a two-year, 2 percent payroll tax holiday was allowed to expire.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2013
OUR OPINION: Homer exhibit good for museum, Maine
Winslow Homer painted "Fox Hunt" in 1893 in his Prouts Neck studio in Scarborough.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2013
OUR OPINION: We’re just one bridge collapse from disaster
Residents of Maine's largest city got a nasty surprise last month when a water main collapsed during the morning rush hour, flooding a busy intersection, damaging cars and buildings.
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