The question is before the courts. The system is not without its deficiencies.

Families should not be forced to make difficult — even impossible — decisions about whether to buy food and fuel or health insurance.

Please trust us to be the capable, critical and motivated citizens we are.

We must elect those candidates who show by their actions that they will only be anointed by and beholden to the people.

While we support the program, it must be financially sustainable. Shifting costs onto local businesses already dealing with thin margins and rising costs in an unsettled economic environment is not the answer.

Maine has a complicated but usable option for reining in the influence of big-money donors.

A bill that would allow electronic pull-tab gaming could make a meaningful difference to organization’s fundraising.