Faced with already high health care costs and steep inflation in health care premiums, Maine Republicans have used their legislative majorities and control of the Blaine House to change course.

If there were a new educational program likely to boost test scores, reduce absenteeism and generally make high school a more productive experience, you’d think school boards would be ready to jump on the wagon.

What’s next? Leaving gum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial? Or perhaps Republicans in the U.S. House will decide to leave the pool at the World War II memorial empty. Maybe they’ll want to cut back services at the Smithsonian and leave the fingerprints on John Glenn’s Friendship 7 capsule.

The Canada Border Services Agency is right to order American deserter Kimberly Rivera to return to the U.S. by Sept. 20.

National political conventions ain’t what they used to be.

You can’t please all of the people all of the time.