Friday, May 24, 2013

Not time to cut SNAP while US hunger growing

Too many Americans don't have enough to eat, but the big debate in Washington seems to be how much to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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.

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.

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.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

OUR OPINION: Not time to cut SNAP while US hunger growing

Too many Americans don’t have enough to eat, but the big debate in Washington seems to be how much to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

VIEW FROM 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.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Worry about rise in food stamps, not junk food

Is there any human impulse stronger than the urge to tell others what not to eat?

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

VIEW FROM AWAY: Abortion bills would erode women's rights

With three first-degree murder verdicts against Kermit Gosnell, we can call him a baby-killer without the political freight that that term usually carries in the fight over abortion rights. There was no ambiguity in his actions, no debate over when a fetus becomes viable when he performed his illegal late-term abortions of some babies who were born alive.

VIEW FROM AWAY: Who decides to wage cyberwar, when and why?

The shadowy world of cybercrime was exposed in the recent federal indictment of eight men accused of manipulating computer networks and ATMs to steal $45 million over seven months. The heist combined sophisticated hacking with street-level hustle. In New York City alone, thieves struck 2,904 cash machines over 10 hours on a single day in February.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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