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PublishedOctober 10, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Proposed teen driver bill may be too lenient
More than 4,000 teenagers die each year in automobile accidents. Many of these deaths are preventable. That is the intent of a bill before Congress that would create a national standard to prepare young people to become safe drivers.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Easy-to-mine Appalachian coal running out
Politicians and mining groups love to boast that West Virginia has enough coal to power America for another 200 years. But snowballing research tells a totally different story.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2011
VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: US plans to tax cargo coming through Canada
International Trade Minister Ed Fast says he's not worried about American efforts to reduce the volume of cargo moving through Canadian ports to destinations in the United States -- including the introduction of a potential tariff of approximately $143 per container to offset a tax the U.S. imposes on containers off-loaded at U.S. ports.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
OUR OPINION: Yuan’s value not our only problem with China
How did it come to this? Who could have imagined such a thing?
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PublishedOctober 8, 2011
OUR OPINION: And then there were four
To some extent, a hotly contested campaign for a high political office can resemble a production of Agatha Christie's long-running London stage hit, "Ten Little Indians."
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PublishedOctober 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.
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PublishedOctober 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.
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PublishedOctober 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.
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PublishedOctober 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."
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PublishedOctober 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.
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