Compromise should not be a dirty word as legislators try to craft a spending plan.

If you value safety, recognize that keeping the state’s inmates in jail is a priority.

Owners lose employees when those workers lose their licenses. That shouldn’t happen simply for failing to pay fines.

Students are not taking their own lives because they are sad — they have a brain disease that needs treatment.

They shouldn’t help pass a budget that doesn’t include major reforms.

Higher taxes will drive people away.

Whatever your political persuasion, you have to believe that there is a moral arc to the universe bending toward justice.

Biotechnology, composites, forest products and agriculture are among the areas that would benefit.

The Legislature must resist calls to repeal the school-funding mandate passed in November.