Gov. Paul LePage went on the air last Saturday with a radio address touting the findings of a study that claimed renewable energy would cost jobs and hurt Maine’s economy.
Editorials
OUR OPINION: Drug abuse not just a problem of law enforcement
Fighting drug abuse is like economics: It’s all about supply and demand.
NEWS FROM AWAY: US world’s No. 1 producer of oil and gas by 2017?
The headline on the report from the International Energy Agency proclaimed that the United States would be, by 2017, the world’s top oil producer, stepping ahead of Saudi Arabia. The report also predicts the United States will be the world’s largest producer of natural gas in three years surpassing Russia.
NEWS FROM AWAY: Americans deserve truth about Libya attack
The Obama White House needs to set the record straight about the disconnect between what the CIA knew about the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the administration’s public insistence that it was an outgrowth of a spontaneous demonstration.
VIEW FROM AWAY: Sense of right and wrong take a beating with release of killer
It appears that nothing can legally be done to prevent the re-entry to Israel in a few months of convicted murderer Eli Cohen. He cannot be incarcerated, retried or even denied parental rights.
OUR OPINION: Education goals should not be partisan issues
Much of the advance talk regarding the next legislative session is predicting the fight ahead between Gov. Paul LePage and the new Democratic majorities in House and Senate.
VIEW FROM AWAY: Problem with drug compounders not fodder for partisan politics
Congress is looking for someone to blame for the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid injections that so far has killed 34 people and sickened nearly 500. In hearings last week, partisan politics took the place of fact-finding.
OUR OPINION: Public should see report on CIA interrogations
Intelligence work is all about secrets: finding the other side’s, protecting your own.
VIEW FROM AWAY: How to rate video games
One of the most valuable pieces of information about a video game is also the simplest: the rating that tells parents what ages the story and graphics are suitable for and why it might not be right for younger users.
OUR OPINION: We need to do more to fight poverty, not less
Thanksgiving food drives have become as much a part of the holiday’s tradition for some Americans as football games and cranberry sauce.