November 22, 2024
Editorial

CLICKBACK ON HILL, MILL, SEX

This week’s ClickBack, the BDN’s interactive opinion feature, takes on the fate of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the possible demise of a paper mill in Millinocket, and the “Sex and the City” phenomenon. To participate, visit www.bangordailynews.com and click on the ClickBack logo to post your comment. Readers are encouraged to submit their own questions as well. Some of the comments posted at the Web site will be printed on Friday’s OpEd page.

Memo to Hillary Clinton: Close counts only in horseshoes and darts.

Sometime in the next week or so, if not sooner, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will have clinched his party’s nomination. Why won’t Sen. Hillary Clinton, who will finish a very close second in the race for the nomination, drop out? What is your theory on why she persists in keeping her presidential bid alive? Is she justified, or selfish? Will Sen. Obama offer her a role in his administration (if he wins in November)? Should he?

What will be the next business threatened by high oil prices?

Last week, Katahdin Paper Co. in Millinocket announced that it plans to close its facility because of the high price of oil. The mill uses millions of gallons of oil each year to operate its machines. Is this the beginning of a new exodus by businesses to warmer climates? What can be done to help such businesses? What about homeowners? Many will struggle to pay heating oil bills this winter and they can’t close down. Are alternative energy sources feasible? What can jump-start the switch?

Sex, cities and Maine – which doesn’t belong and why?

Why would a movie, based on an HBO TV series, set in New York City and centered on the lives of four chic and well-heeled (in both senses of the phrase) women be popular in Maine? Is it because we secretly yearn for a lifestyle of cocktails, lunch at trendy restaurants and R-rated gossip? Bonus question: If there were a Maine version of this show, what would it be called? “Shivering by the Wood Stove in the County”?

BDN editorial page readers – online and in the newspaper – are clever, informed and opinionated, and we welcome their comments on serious and not-so-serious matters through ClickBack. Keep on clicking.


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