Loads of lead fishing lures can be found at the bottom of even the cleanest bodies of water.

Interesting things are happening in rural Maine. • People with software jobs elsewhere are moving to Maine — but only where high-speed internet exists. • Artists, photographers, actors, musicians from away have created a sophisticated cultural economy. • A bumper crop of young farmers is moving in — the number of farmers, the acres under […]

Despite their success in Maine and across the country, elected officials continue to attack the remarkable progress of public charter schools, and Maine is no exception. This session, Rep. Michael Brennan of Portland is the primary sponsor of a pair of bills that would drastically limit Maine students’ access to public charter school programs, separating […]

It’s the worst of many bad ideas floating around Augusta right now.

Even in “odd” years, powerful political forces drive elected officials away from common ground.

Public funding, a history of female role models and recruiting organizations all play a part.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference — a reliable index of far-right apprehensions — rolled into Washington last weekend, proclaiming long and loud the new Republican mantra: If we don’t re-elect Donald Trump, neo-Stalinism will befall us! Speaker after speaker told the assembled faithful what President Donald Trump had intimated in his State of the […]

Should Fox “News” have a seat at the table? Last week, the Democratic National Committee, citing a recent story in The New Yorker that painted the network as a propaganda machine for the Republican Party and its lamentable leader, said no. It pointedly disinvited Fox from hosting any of the forthcoming Democratic primary debates. That […]