Gov. Paul LePage was at least partly right in his letter to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.

Every once in a while, we get some good news from Washington.

Corrections is the part of state government that most people would like to forget. Stories showing that prisons are dangerous places seem fair to some, who think that’s how justice is delivered.

One of the casualties of congressional gridlock last year was reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The landmark law that caused a sea change in how the country deals with domestic violence fell victim to the partisanship and inertia of Washington.

The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Feb. 12 chose 25 out of the 26 sports contested in the 2012 London Olympics as core sports for the 2020 Olympics and added wrestling to the seven shortlisted sports “vying for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic program as an additional sport.”

The University of Virginia’s National Marriage Project has released another disturbing report. It reiterates that marriage remains strong for college-educated couples — but it’s disintegrating in “Middle America,” the nearly 60 percent of the populace with only high school diplomas.

One only had to watch the contrast between Joe Biden and John Boehner during the State of the Union to know that any lessons learned from the November election have been forgotten.

We don’t know whether Oscar Pistorius meant to kill his girlfriend in his South Africa home recently or just shot at what he thought was a burglar in his bathroom, as he claims.

You can’t legislate good driving or common sense, according to Rep. Wayne Parry, an Arundel Republican on the Legislature’s Transportation Committee.