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PublishedDecember 18, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: We lost with GOP vote; financial industry won
Unless you work in the banking industry or a non-bank financial business like a mortgage company, debt-collecting or payday lending, you took it on the chin in the U.S. Senate recently.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Cellphone ban too little to stop road carnage
In the race between a fast-spreading and potentially hazardous technology and government attempts to regulate it, the regulators come in a distant second.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2011
OUR OPINION: Reasons given for MaineCare deficit don’t add up
Gov. Paul LePage claims that an explosion in demand for MaineCare services is the real reason for a deficit in the program, justifying his proposal for deep cuts that affect 65,000 people.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
OUR OPINION: Shop locally; it’ll spread more green around town
Economic development usually means chasing after a business, hoping to get it to move some of its jobs to your state, city or town.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Newt’s tax play: Something for all, a lot for a few
No one expects challengers in a U.S. presidential race to present realistic economic plans. Promise them anything, their campaign consultants advise. On that score, GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich's tax reform plan exceeds expectations.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Just like Nero, US fiddles while disaster looms
Nero probably didn't really fiddle while Rome burned; for one thing, fiddles as we know them today didn't exist yet, and for another, historians at the time dismissed the story as a rumor.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Federal policy needed on medical marijuana
A formal federal recognition of marijuana as a prescription drug is the logical approach to the medical marijuana debate. The current state-by-state approach that challenges federal drug laws only invites confusion for doctors, patients, dispensaries and law enforcement agencies.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: First step to fixing problems is admitting they exist
Republicans who would rather defeat Barack Obama than fix the national budget woes have latched onto a false campaign theme: The president is not patriotic, they say.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: US takes baby steps in relations with Myanmar
Diplomacy is all about talking -- with everyone. Friends and foes and those whose intentions are murky. Myanmar is still a mystery, but credit President Barack Obama with breaking the silence.
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PublishedDecember 11, 2011
OUR OPINION: If parents keep forgoing vaccines, state should step in to protect the rest
We're in the midst of a national trend that is making people sick, and Maine is along for the ride.
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