On Feb. 10, the newspaper carried an article about the visit of Col. Robert Williams, chief of the Maine State Police, to Israel to learn about anti-terrorist techniques. The article was interesting for what it said and what it did not.

My name is Cassidy. I am a fifth-grader at Faith Christian School in Kearney, Neb. My class is studying the 50 states and I have chosen Maine as my state.

I wonder what caused the current brouhaha about eating horsemeat.

In a recent Maine Compass, Sen. Rodney Whittemore, R-Skow-hegan, who works on the Legislature’s Insurance and Financial Services Committee, describes the results of Maine’s new health insurance law (Public Law 90) as “remarkable,” “encouraging,” “affordable” and “a testament to the power of the free market.”

The more I see about the controversy surrounding the Boy Scouts allowing gays to join, the more I see people just don’t have a clue.

In his column published on Feb. 22, “1923 Supreme Court: Minimum wage law an unjust means to a good end,” Professor Joseph Reisman argues that minimum wage laws are a bad idea because such laws substitute wages set by the government for wages set by the marketplace.

Maine and the United States are on a slippery slope toward disaster.

I went to a local coffee shop recently and was sitting quietly at my table and watched a boy, perhaps 7 or 8 years old, playing at a table. A young woman, perhaps in her early 20s, was sitting by his side.