Was America’s Shock and Awe war worth it?

Editorials

Published
October 31, 2011

Was America’s Shock and Awe war worth it?

After nearly nine years, the deaths of more than 115,000 Iraqi civilians and more than 4,400 U.S. troops, and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars, President Barack Obama has said the last American soldier would leave Iraq by year's end with his head held high.
Published
October 31, 2011

Time to review Japan’s global beef import rules

An advisory panel of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare will start reviewing Japan's system to prevent beef contaminated with mad cow disease from entering the human food chain. The panel will consider whether the nation's guidelines for testing cattle for the disease, which are arguably the strictest in the world, and its restrictions on beef imports based on the guidelines are reasonable.
Published
October 31, 2011

Obama’s new mortgage relief program better

Unlike his Home Affordable Refinance Program that failed to garner widespread participation owing to unaccountable complexity, President Barack Obama's new initiative eliminates homeowner fees associated with refinancing, removes squirrelly income requirements, provides loans at rock-bottom prices and reduces risk for the banks involved.
Published
October 30, 2011

Redistricting process safer if embedded in Constitution

Legislative and congressional redistricting can cause some of the toughest political fights any state can have.
Published
October 30, 2011

Time has come for US dollar coin

A dollar bill, as we all know too well, is a fleeting thing. Not just because it leaves our hands so much more easily than it returns but because, as it changes hands, it wears out within about three years, and often sooner. A coin's life span, by contrast, averages 30 years.

Published
October 30, 2011

Question 1: What yes and no votes really mean

The hardest thing about Question 1 is knowing what it means to say yes or no.
Published
October 30, 2011

The phone that talks back

With the release of the iPhone 4S, Apple Inc. has put artificial intelligence into the hands of millions.
Published
October 27, 2011

OUR OPINION: Prescription drug abuse

The timing was fortunate, if mostly coincidental. Within days of the final installment of MaineToday Media's six-part series on the state's problems with prescription drug abuse, Attorney General William Schneider announced plans for a task force to address the issue.
Published
October 26, 2011

OUR OPINION: Foolish to forgo 2-year federal grant to test water

The state’s revenue picture has brightened, officials say — $6 million more than expected rolled in during the first quarter of the fiscal year, not to mention $23 million more than the same quarter last year — but budget cutting is still the order of the day.
Published
October 25, 2011

OUR OPINION: Gadhafi’s death closes chapter, opens new one

In the history of modern brutal dictatorships, the 42-year rule of Moammar Gadhafi over the North African nation of Libya had its unique aspects.

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