Time has come for US dollar coin

Editorials

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.
Published
October 25, 2011

OUR OPINION: AAA’s wizards cast GPS spell on wandering teens

If being a teenager weren't hard enough already, now the years when fledglings want the most to flee the parental nest and begin to flap their wings have one more obstacle to freedom:
Published
October 24, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: China’s fiscal growth tilts distribution of income

The steady slowdown of the world's second largest economy may disappoint those who are hoping it will be the driving force for the global economy, which is teetering on the edge of a double-dip recession.
Published
October 24, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: No easy answer for release of captured Israelis

During centuries of exile and wandering, the Jewish people have, sadly, accumulated immense experience with extortion and abductions. Wherever they went, Jews tended to excel but, unfortunately, often lacked the means to defend the fruits of their labor. Too often they became easy prey for kidnappers.
Published
October 24, 2011

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: GOP renews attack on reproductive rights

Only a tiny sliver of Planned Parenthood activities is tied to abortion, and no federal money can be spent on the procedure. But this limitation isn't good enough. The organization -- and an estimated 5 million low-income women served by Title X -- must be cut off.

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