While newly empowered teenage drivers might think recently increased restrictions on their ability to roam freely around the state’s highways and byways are excessive, there’s a simple and appropriate response: No, they aren’t.
Editorials
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Our View: Homeless veterans shouldn’t be abandoned
A position at the Oxford Street Shelter ought to be restored as quickly as possible.
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Circumcision’s benefits showno cause to ban it
A ruling in June by a German court that the routine circumcision of male infants is tantamount to child abuse has reignited a long-standing controversy about the practice.
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OUR OPINION: Circumcision’s benefits show no cause to ban it
A ruling in June by a German court that the routine circumcision of male infants is tantamount to child abuse has reignited a long-standing controversy about the practice.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: And (military) justice for all, including generals
Enlisted soldiers who frequently break the rules in the Army typically don’t get much mercy.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: GOP afraid Akin might cost it Senate majority
Republicans are frantically trying to get U.S. Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri after his remark about abortion and rape, but not because it was offensive and ignorant.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Time to kill ethanol mandate
The drought and sky-high corn prices are forcing federal officials to at least consider doing something that should have been done a long time ago.
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OUR OPINION: Voting system could use some improvements
A state panel head a lot of good ideas to improve elections in Maine at a public hearing in Augusta last week, but they may not have been the ones they were looking for.
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VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: 4th Amendment still applies even with our new technology
Even many who cherish the “original meaning” of the Constitution recognize that provisions drafted in the 18th century must be interpreted in light of changing technology.
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OUR OPINION: Schools chief may be right, but forum was wrong
Brunswick Superintendent Paul Perzanoski got off a couple of good lines in his Aug. 17 letter welcoming teachers back to school.