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PublishedMarch 4, 2012
OUR OPINION: Please keep spirit of legislative compromise alive
Unlike their dysfunctional cousins in Washington, the members of the Maine Legislature have managed to steer clear from the kind of partisanship that gives politics a bad name.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2012
OUR OPINION: 2 weeks enough time for hopefuls to gather names
Sometimes the best move is no move at all.Gov. Paul LePage made the right choice by staying out of an effort to extend the deadline for candidates hoping get a seat in the game of political musical chairs created by Sen. Olympia Snowe's retirement surprise.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
OUR OPINION; Real threat of violence, ‘joke’ have same result
A teacher being issued a summons for making a joke about having his students shot? It sound outrageous. It sounds absurd.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2012
OUR OPINION: Snowe’s decision to give up fight setback for Maine
If Sen. Olympia Snowe is really retiring from the U.S. Senate because she can't stand the poisonous partisanship in Congress -- and we have no reason to doubt her word on that score -- then Maine is paying a terrible price for the rancor that has become business as usual in Washington, D.C.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Some companies won’t hire people without jobs
The labor market has always had one particularly frustrating conundrum: Young would-be workers say that employers won't hire them because they lack experience, but without that job they can't get experience.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Single motherhood:issue is economics
If motherhood before marriage is the new norm for U.S. women under age 30, it's urgent to find out why.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Construction projects didn’t waste stimulus funds
It's a given, during the presidential primary debates, that the billions of federal "stimulus" dollars were wasted. That money was said to be gone, vanished, and for no good purpose.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Leave it to Swiss to have plan to clean space junk
Great things have been achieved in 55 years of space exploration. But accompanying those achievements are a half-million pieces of space litter in orbit around the Earth.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2012
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Short sales may help US housing market
Two years ago the Obama administration sought to stimulate the housing market by offering certain home-buyers an $8,000 tax credit. Now some banks are coming up with their own incentives to encourage sales with cash offers to eligible sellers rather than buyers.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
OUR OPINION: Once again, we must adapt to high fuel costs
Gas prices are soaring, and as the most oil-dependent state in the nation, Maine people have plenty to be concerned about.
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