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February 4, 2012
Gene Collier
INDIANAPOLIS -- At one point Friday late in NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's annual state of the NFL pre-Super Bowl news conference, a young female questioner stood and identified herself as a representative of the Ochocinco News Network. Really, ONN?
February 3, 2012
Tony Norman
Mitt Romney may not be the most callous candidate who has ever run for president, but he is surely the most out of touch. Everything about the GOP frontrunner screams awkwardness around those in lower income brackets. Ironically, most Americans earn less money but are in higher tax brackets than Mitt "Mr. 15 Percent" Romney.
February 2, 2012
Brian O'Neill
Sometimes the connection between a front-page story and one in the Magazine section isn't immediately obvious, but I see the potential for property tax relief in this new craze for "gender cake reveal parties."
February 1, 2012
Reg Henry
One thing that television is good for is making you feel better about yourself -- not the TV programs so much, but the ads, particularly the ones advertising pharmaceutical drugs. In other countries I have lived in -- Australia, Britain -- I do not remember prescription drugs being advertised in this way.
February 1, 2012
Ron Cook
In a conference room Tuesday night high above the Consol Energy Center ice, Penguins general manager Ray Shero and upbeat superstar Sidney Crosby spoke hopefully about the future but stopped well short of predicting when it might arrive. At the same time, the other Penguins players prepared to play the Toronto Maple Leafs in the here and now. It was business as usual for them.
January 30, 2012
Ruth Ann Dailey
To win the 2012 Republican nomination and have a decent chance against President Barack Obama in November, the eventual candidate will have to mollify and motivate three factions: the GOP establishment, the religious right and the tea party. Though the religious right is a wing of the GOP, the tea party most insistently is not; the two entities hold one another in mutual mistrust.
January 29, 2012
Sally Kalson
Given the dystopian view of the future favored by politicians in an election year -- The sky will fall if you don't vote for me! -- I thought I'd pass along some predictions that are a bit more optimistic. They were penned in 1900 by the forward-thinking John Elfreth Watkins Jr. and published by the Ladies' Home Journal.
January 29, 2012
Jack Kelly
Mitt Romney has a problem. He thinks his problem is Newt Gingrich, who clobbered him in the South Carolina primary. Mr. Gingrich has since erased Mr. Romney's lead in national polls, and surged in Florida, where the next primary will be held Jan. 31. Every Palmetto State winner has gone on to win the Republican nomination. Being reminded of this fills the GOP establishment with dread.
January 29, 2012
David Shribman
LEWISTON, Me. -- Against all odds, against all expectations, perhaps even against all reason, the Republican presidential nomination fight is centered in Florida this week and then moves to a hopelessly complex process here in Maine next week.
January 26, 2012
Samantha Bennett
As we all know from the world of politics, if you say something enough times, it becomes true. As we all know from the world of self-help gurus, if you say something enough times, especially while looking into a mirror, you become good enough, smart enough and, doggone it, people really do like you.
January 25, 2012
Dan Simpson
Much about Newt Gingrich's campaign for the Republican presidential nod is puzzling, but I found his compliment of the news media in South Carolina last week for its "destructive, vicious, negative nature" to be encouraging. I'm sure he meant it as a snivel, but the fact that he noted it means that we are doing our jobs.
