Prone to violence with a history of mental illness, a Texas man should not have been able to buy a firearm
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Another View: Shrinking songbirds are climate change casualties
University of Michigan scientists have linked the declining body weight of birds with rising temperatures in their summer feeding grounds.
Another View: Trump’s cellphone use puts security at risk
The president, who attacked Hillary Clinton for using a private email server for official business, is doing much worse.
Another View: Voter suppression working for Republicans
Thousands of Democratic-leaning voters will be disenfranchised in the fight against imaginary voter fraud.
Another View: Private data is not really private
Congress needs to curb the perfectly legal location data sharing that records the movements of every cellphone user.
Another View: Only way out of our pension crisis is through bipartisan compromise
Congress wastes another year to bail out multi-employer pension plans covering 1.3 million unionized workers.
Another View: ‘Medicare for All’? Explain how that will work
Senate candidate Betsy Sweet should describe how caregivers and hospitals will survive if this solution is implemented.
Another View: New federal election security measures have a big omission
Congress imposed no rules to ensure that states procure secure systems. Also left out: automatic sanctions on meddling countries.
Another View: Finally, Congress is investing in gun-violence prevention research
The Dickey Amendment helped only the NRA, while doing nothing to protect gun owners’ rights.
Another View: Portland’s not perfect. But is it Potterville? Take another look.
A columnist who says that Maine’s largest city is heartless paints with a broad brush.