Wages of direct care workers have actually dropped during the last 14 years. In order to let more elderly receive in-home care, these wages must rise.

Parades don’t make up for the gap created as lawmakers cut services to military personnel.

Republican leaders are wise to reject plan that would put government deep into debt.

The minimum wage blocks many young and poorly educated/skilled people from getting a job at all.

Calumet Club honors Dick O’Connor as its Citizen of the Year.

Lots of reasons we access others’ property: hunting, fishing, picking fiddleheads and mushrooms.

Legislators should recognize the need to invest in this business infrastructure for small towns and businesses.

Counterproposal rejects trickle-down economics and puts more money in the pockets of more Mainers.

Well, at least we’re headed in the right direction.

The impairment caused by a child breathing or ingesting even minuscule particles is irreversible.