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M.D. HARMON: What 'everyone knows' about rise of gun violence is wrong

Everyone knows that when the 1994 gun control law expired 10 years later, the number of gun crimes rose considerably, leading to today's much-higher-than-the-historic-average rates of criminal offenses with firearms.

COMMENTARY: Media must do more to help find nation's missing children

Today is National Missing Children Day.

Government intrusion into our lives expanding

It's unfortunate that, whether Republicans or Democrats are in power, the expansion of the government's intrusion into our lives is not only maintained from the previous administration but is expanded in new ways.

Before cutting Medicare, fix IRS rule inequities

It isn't news these days that chief executive officers enjoy pay that amounts to 400 times that of the workers.

Today's editorial cartoon

OUR OPNION: Wounds stay fresh, even from long-ago abuse

The Rev. James Vallely is long dead, but the harm he did survives. The Roman Catholic priest left behind a long list of sexual abuse victims, both male and female, from his career in Portland, South Berwick and other parishes throughout the state from 1958 to 1988. He died in 1997 at the age of 75.

JOHN KASS: Survivors say tornadoes sound like freight trains, but they don't

Does a killer tornado really sound like a freight train?

VIEW FROM AWAY: Teachers turn heroes in Oklahoma tornado

The tornado warnings came just as school was ending Monday at Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, Okla. Some teachers hustled children to a nearby shelter at a church.

VIEW ROM AWAY: At last, some sanity about student loans

Congress has only begun working on student loans this year, and already it's going better than last year's debacle.

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