Any time people face the prospect of paying more for one of life’s necessities, they notice — so a proposal by Maine’s largest electric utility to raise its rates is naturally drawing attention.

The report card on Gov. Paul LePage’s education policy is in, and he should be ashamed.

The May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated should make the Boy Scouts of America board meeting a little easier.

The computer-scanning software finished and announced its result: 39 issues detected.

The state Department of Education has given each of Maine’s 600 public schools a letter grade, from A to F, and today those rankings will be made public.

Gov. Paul LePage has made paying Maine’s debt to hospitals his top policy priority. He says that paying for services already rendered is not only the right thing to do, it would be good for the state’s economy.

The world may never know for sure whether the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Earth Day was celebrated around the globe on April 22. That’s as it should be, as scientists find more ways that pollution, energy production, climate change and other issues such as recycling are interconnected.

As the shock of Canada’s brush with an alleged al-Qaida-directed terror plot recedes, it’s comforting to learn that a prominent Toronto Muslim cleric played a key role in foiling the attack. More than a year ago he alerted the authorities to someone he felt was an extremist who was radicalizing young people.

When it’s time to pay, people don’t really care who collects their taxes. Whether it’s a check to the town office for property taxes, or an additional 5 percent on the bill at a checkout line or a deduction from your weekly pay, it’s all money going out to support the activities of government, either at the state, local or federal levels.