The celebratory gunfire in Gaza that greeted the start of the Nov. 21 truce may have been in part to greet the end of the slaughter of the Israeli onslaught. This has seen at least 162 Palestinians die, the majority of them civilians, and in excess of 1,200 people injured. Some of these will die later and many more will have to live with crippling disabilities for the rest of their lives.

‘We’re No. 10! We’re No. 10!” You may not hear that very often at football games, but it rang loud and proud in Augusta last week after the U.S. Department of Education released its tally of high school graduation rates for all 50 states.

Though those who are critical of Gov. Paul LePage’s decision in 2011 to remove a specially commissioned mural from an anteroom at the offices of the Maine Department of Labor don’t agree, the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston made the legally correct decision in saying the governor had the right to do what he did.

Incorrect information appeared in a Nov. 27 editorial about a new law that caps treatment for drug addicts.

It seems a little hard to credit, but news reports this week said that nearly 1 million people from all over the nation have signed online petitions supporting their states’ secession from the United States.

Let’s take it as a given that teachers and school administrators must be able to intervene physically when students’ actions become disruptive or dangerous to themselves or others.

Gov. Paul LePage went on the air last Saturday with a radio address touting the findings of a study that claimed renewable energy would cost jobs and hurt Maine’s economy.

Fighting drug abuse is like economics: It’s all about supply and demand.

The headline on the report from the International Energy Agency proclaimed that the United States would be, by 2017, the world’s top oil producer, stepping ahead of Saudi Arabia. The report also predicts the United States will be the world’s largest producer of natural gas in three years surpassing Russia.

The Obama White House needs to set the record straight about the disconnect between what the CIA knew about the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, and the administration’s public insistence that it was an outgrowth of a spontaneous demonstration.