OUR OPINION: Steve Jobs had a hi-tech dream he shared with us

Editorials

Published
October 7, 2011

OUR OPINION: Steve Jobs had a hi-tech dream he shared with us

For months after the introduction of the Apple iPad, hundreds of thousands of early adopters sat hunched over their new tablet computers trying to figure out what to do with them.
Published
October 6, 2011

OUR OPINION: GOP candidates can stop running against Christie

Will he? Won't he? He will! He won't! Finally, it's official: He won't.
Published
October 6, 2011

OUR OPINION: ‘Pay at the pump’ should never mean this

Consumers already think they pay through the nose for what comes through the hose.
Published
October 6, 2011

OUR OPINION: Spouting slogans won’t solve our fiscal woes

As long ago as 1917, acerbic Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken could write, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
Published
October 5, 2011

OUR OPINION: Unemployment bigger problem than fraud

Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address Saturday to decry abuse of Maine's system for providing unemployment benefits and vowed a crackdown on cheaters.

Published
October 4, 2011

OUR OPINION: Natural resource agencies’ merger makes sense –if service will improve

What do the state departments of Agriculture and Conservation have in common?
Published
October 4, 2011

OUR OPINION: Clean Election law needs surgery, not a Band-Aid

Let's start by acknowledging that Maine's Clean Election system, approved by voters in 1996, has been generally well-received by the public and the candidates for state office who have used it.
Published
October 3, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Dead people got $600M in Social Security benefits

For several years, we've seen stories about people declared dead by the Social Security Administration. Many went through a lot of hoops to officially resurrect themselves. In the interim, they didn't get the proper payments due. And for some people, this created a real hardship.
Published
October 3, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Saudi promise to let women vote seems empty

Even if the latest promise of granting marginal political rights to Saudi women could be believed, it would be too little, too late. King Abdullah has good intentions regarding their position, but any step forward on rights tends to be matched by two steps back -- and not just for women.
Published
October 3, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Young Americans are ‘Shortchanged Generation’

Newly released Census data demonstrate the chilling impact the recession has had on the current crop of young Americans, to whom the American Dream is increasingly becoming a historical curiosity.

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