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Opinion

  • The View From Away: Online college education isn't college or education

    A friend recently sent me an article predicting the imminent demise of college as we know it at the hands of the cheaper, more efficient Internet. My friend sees this trend toward online higher education as an opportunity for me to teach in the digital classroom. She may be right. God know...

    Mike Langworthy • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 11:10 am

  • The Universal Notebook: It's time to tax guns, ammo

    Walking the dog the other day at Twin Brook Recreation Area in Cumberland, I was treated to the incessant bam-bam, bam-bam-bam, bam-bam, bam-bam-bam-bam, bam of someone targeting shooting somewhere off to the west. At least I hope they were just target shooting. You can’t discharge a...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:30 am

  • Forecaster Forum: Reports that we are dying are greatly exaggerated

    Back in 1897, James Ross Clemens was ill. Not-so-careful passing on of information resulted in word that Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, was dying in London. When an enterprising reporter decided to check on Twain before publishing his demise, the author resp...

    Cheryl Wormley • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:20 am

  • Letter: Looking forward to Delogu's follow-up

    I would like to thank Orland Delogu for his well-researched Policy Wonk column on corporate welfare in Maine ("Corporate welfare in Main...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:50 am

  • Letter: Yarmouth should ramp up recycling

    Do you know that Yarmouth residents throw away about 2,700 tons of trash every year? I did the math and found that this equals bout 649 pounds of trash per person, or about two pounds of trash per person per day on average. That is a lot of trash. According to the Yarmouth Recycling Commit...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:40 am

  • Letter: Portland should reject tar-sands oil

    I am writing in support of a policy currently being considered by the Portland City Council that would direct the city to only purchase and use fuel for city-owned vehicles that come from oil refineries that do not process tar sands. The tar sands policy is part of a larger environmental performa...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:20 am

  • Abby's Road: Gone skating

    Parenting was hard even for Albert Einstein. I mean, he is the man who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Clearly, he had that breakthrough after commanding “indoor voices!” and hearing no reduction in volume. I don't underst...

    Abby Diaz • Opinion •
    Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:20 am

  • The Universal Notebook: The governor flunketh

    Gov. Paul LePage has nothing but contempt for public education, public school teachers and administrators and public school students. A man possessed of the worst combination of ignorance and arrogance, he seems to have no idea of the damage he does every time he opens his big mouth and badmouths...

    Edgar Allen Beem • Opinion •
    Monday, January 14, 2013 at 10:10 am

  • Superintendent's Notebook: Portland’s public high schools offer many 'Pathways to Success'

    The Portland Public Schools has launched Pathways to Success, a remodeling of our entire educational system to prepare students for an increasingly global and fast-changing world. This year’s eighth-graders will be among the first to benefit from our efforts to customize each student’...

    Emmanuel Caulk • Opinion •
    Monday, January 14, 2013 at 9:20 am

  • Letter: Story lacked detail about Falmouth council

    The recent follow-up story about the TideSmart Global sign on Route 1 in Falmouth reported that town councilors spent “45 minutes berating Woods ...

    • Opinion •
    Monday, January 14, 2013 at 8:30 am
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