Quick takes on the issues in the news this week in central Maine.

Starting Friday, the approximately 250,000 Mainers who rely on food stamps will have fewer resources to spend on filling their plates. That’s the day when a temporary boost from the 2009 stimulus bill will expire. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will be cut by $5 billion nationwide. The average family of four will lose the […]

Late nights are worth it to watch the World Series

“Homelessness,” like “poverty,” is a one-word name for a constellation of problems that have deep roots and far-reaching consequences.

Halloween is almost here, and millions are looking forward to the one night a year when they can go out in public, dressed as whatever or whoever they want to be. Judging from the costumes sold by national retailers, young girls want to be either pink and pretty princesses and ballerinas or miniskirted vampires and midriff-baring pirates.

Halloween is almost here, and millions are looking forward to the one night a year when they can go out in public, dressed as whatever or whoever they want to be. Judging from the costumes sold by national retailers, young girls want to be either pink and pretty princesses and ballerinas or miniskirted vampires and midriff-baring pirates.

Distributing revelations about the voracious appetite of the National Security Agency for personal email and instant messaging accounts stir a basic question: Where is Congress and the executive branch?

When it comes to Maine’s economy, the challenge should be creating jobs, not filling them.

Carlos Reed says he was exercising his Second Amendment rights. But he’s accused of the “threatening display of a weapon” for walking around Portland carrying an assault rifle, allegedly in a position from which it can be rapidly aimed.