The sponsor of L.D. 90, the workforce training bill in the Legislature, is Senate President Justin Alfond. An editorial on page A5 of Tuesday’s newspaper misidentified the sponsor. It was an editorial writer’s error.

Why didn’t Congress know earlier that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny? In days of hearings, lawmakers have tried to get a satisfactory answer from witnesses under oath. They haven’t succeeded.

Sometimes state government gets it right. A bipartisan group of legislators came together to work on a problem, not further an agenda. They listened to the experts and the people directly affected before they wrote a bill.

On this Memorial Day, the plight of Americans who have borne the burden of fighting our wars should be uppermost in the minds of their countrymen.

This nation has been pinballing from one tragedy to another over the past half-year, and at times it seems we are simply incapable of absorbing more grief.

This disease is the No. 1 killer of American women older than 25.

The Rev. James Vallely is long dead, but the harm he did survives. The Roman Catholic priest left behind a long list of sexual abuse victims, both male and female, from his career in Portland, South Berwick and other parishes throughout the state from 1958 to 1988. He died in 1997 at the age of 75.

The tornado warnings came just as school was ending Monday at Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, Okla. Some teachers hustled children to a nearby shelter at a church.

Congress has only begun working on student loans this year, and already it’s going better than last year’s debacle.

Too many Americans don’t have enough to eat, but the big debate in Washington seems to be how much to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.