Editorials

Published
February 6, 2011

Our View:State dessert void to be filled by diligent lawmakers

The Legislature won't rest until whoopie pies get the recognition that they richly deserve.
Published
February 5, 2011

Our View: School funding shortfallwill only grow larger

State and federal funds are limited or drying up, so cuts or local tax hikes are the only options.
Published
February 5, 2011

Another View: Treasurer right to point out pension liability repercussions

Bruce Poliquin is not playing politics with state debt, but highlighting real dangers.
Published
February 4, 2011

Another View: Editorial wrong to support Commercial Street train depot

The passenger terminal should return to where it belongs – the old Union Station site.
Published
February 4, 2011

Our View: Winter’s grip could use a little loosening

Desperate Mainers wonder if, for once, that Pennsylvania groundhog might be right.

Published
February 3, 2011

Our View: Turnpike report shows need for accountability

You can say you will run government like a business, but you might not like the result.
Published
February 3, 2011

Our View: Watchdog agency will be more necessary than ever

OPEGA is the eyes and ears of lawmakers who otherwise get their information from agencies.
Published
February 2, 2011

Our View: Court doing its jobin health reform case

If you don't like the federal health care program signed into law by President Obama last March – and count us among those who don't – Monday's decision by a federal judge in Florida was good news. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson declared the entire law unconstitutional – not just the part of the law that requires all Americans to buy health insurance. The purchase mandate was the key provision in Vinson's decision, but the judge said, in effect, that if that part of the law was bad, the whole thing was bad. He had a point; when Congress was debating health care reform, many of its supporters argued that the law couldn't work unless everyone was required to participate.
Published
February 1, 2011

Our View: Gov. LePage’s news-phobiaa conversation stopper

For those of us in the business of writing newspaper editorials, the news out of Gov. Paul LePage's office gets worse and worse. First, he declared in his widely watched and much-discussed inaugural address that he doesn't care about editorials. We were hurt, of course. It would be one thing if the governor had said he doesn't like editorials – but doesn't care?
Published
February 1, 2011

Our View: ‘Neighborhood prosecutor’ taking nibbles out of crime

Serious offenses can often be forestalled by improving a community's overall atmosphere.