VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Short sales may help US housing market

Editorials

Published
February 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.
Published
February 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.
Published
February 26, 2012

OUR OPINION: School choice part of bill has potential flaws

We agree with Gov. Paul LePage that education systems should be focused on students and their success. We also agree with state Education Commissioner Steven Bowen that 200-year-old town lines should not be the sole determining factor in deciding where a child should go to school.
Published
February 25, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Lower tax rate, closing loopholes

Experience teaches us that proposals to "simplify" taxes ought to be viewed with skepticism.
Published
February 24, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Au revoir, mademoiselle

For reasons clear perhaps only to the French establishment and French feminist groups, the government is phasing out the lovely and elegant word "mademoiselle." As of now, it is to be stricken from all official documents.

Published
February 24, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Humiliating colonoscopy really saves lives

Here's some uncomfortable good news: Colonoscopies really do save lives.
Published
February 23, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: The many faces of marriage in US

A quarter-century ago, 65 percent of Americans thought interracial marriage was unacceptable for themselves or for other people.
Published
February 23, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Climate denial in the classroom

The culture wars have been fought in the classroom for decades, waged over such issues as school prayer, the teaching of evolution and whether the Pledge of Allegiance should include the phrase "under God." But the conflict usually pits backers of religious instruction against secularists. The latest skirmish, by contrast, is centered on a scientific issue that has nothing to do with religious teaching: climate change.
Published
February 22, 2012

OUR OPINION: LePage should read his website

Gov. Paul LePage came to public service after a long career in business, and his supporters will tell you that has a great impact on how he goes about his job.
Published
February 22, 2012

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Bailout of automakers was a good idea — from Bush

Michael Gerson, Bush's chief speechwriter and senior policy adviser for five years and now a Washington Post columnist, wrote this week, "No president -- Republican or Democrat -- would have allowed the economic collapse of the Upper Middle West in the midst of a national economic panic."

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