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  • Published
    September 21, 2012

    VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Boy Scouts must stay alert to molestation

    One of the things a Boy Scout must learn by heart is the Scout Law, a list of 12 precepts to live by.

  • Published
    September 20, 2012

    OUR OPINION: Obesity not just individual, but societal problem

    Everyone knows what to do if they are gaining too much weight. Eat less and exercise more, and most bodies will respond.

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    September 20, 2012

    VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Our kids ain’t writing so good

    Even with the aid of word processing technology, only about a fourth of American eighth- and 12th-graders can be considered reasonably conversant with Mother English.

  • Published
    September 19, 2012

    VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Moody’s puts US on notice about future credit rating

    In case anyone had forgotten, Moody's Investors Service issued a stark reminder Sept. 11 that the federal government is speeding headlong toward a political and financial cliff.

  • Published
    September 18, 2012
    Mitt Romney

    OUR OPINION: Romney’s mouth gets him into trouble again

    The old joke is that a political gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. By that definition, Mitt Romney’s comments about an America divided between tax payers and those who don’t “take personal responsibility … for their lives” failed the gaffe test on two counts: What he said was not an accident. And […]

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  • Published
    September 18, 2012

    OUR OPINION: Trickle-down theory not viable, study shows

    In politics, ideas are repeated so often that they become familiar and get treated if they were facts. One of the most durable nuggets is the argument that tax cuts for the wealthy lead to economic growth.

  • Published
    September 17, 2012

    Keystone XL pipeline needed for US growth

    When the Trans-Alaska pipeline was first proposed in 1970 the environmental movement launched an all-out effort to stop it based on claims that the heated oil would destroy the permafrost, earthquakes would rupture the pipeline, massive oil leaks would permanently scar the tundra, contaminate the hundreds of pristine streams and rivers in the path of the pipeline and halt the annual migration of the Porcupine caribou herd.

  • Published
    September 17, 2012

    Kosovo graduates to independence

    In violent spasms through the 1990s, the country forged together as Yugoslavia broke apart, its component republics reasserting their independence following vicious ethnic conflicts. Today, another section of the Balkans, the province of Kosovo, emerges out of the chaos of the '90s as Europe's newest independent country.

  • Published
    September 17, 2012

    Political conventions should pay their own bills

    There once was a time when political conventions were vital to conducting American democracy. There also once was a time when horse-drawn carriages were essential to travel long distances.

  • Published
    September 16, 2012

    Eventually, tariffs protecting jobs will go away

    U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk told workers in Norridgewock that he was committed to saving American manufacturing jobs -- but that might not mean their jobs.