Welfare reform may be deciding factor in race to be Maine’s governor

Lots of good ideas in anti-poverty plan introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

The enemy below: Why Hamas tunnels scare Israel so much

Gerard DeGroot

State will be lucky if Shawn Moody runs for governor again someday

Self-made entrepreneur amazing, smart, 'wicked tight' with a dollar.

All the senator needed to do was apologize

John Walsh had the worst week in Washington last week.

Composting is a good way to recycle organic material in waste stream

Geoffrey Hill & Ross Nason

Best state: Vermont, for its healthy kids

Businesses dust off ‘succession plans’ as baby boomers begin retiring in waves

Jeffrey Stinson

Democrats’ message, ad nauseam: GOP taken over by radical-right of tea party

Collins' tea party record a reason Mainers encouraged to vote for Bellows

Christians by the millions forced to leave homes in Iraq, Syria — or die

Many in war-weary Western nations failing to take notice.

Cancer’s one thing, but now it’s something else

I don't know how to fight something I don't have a name for.