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.

In the controversy over several of Gov. Paul LePage’s appointments for state offices, one was noticeably quiet, and that was a good thing.

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

For decades now, organically grown produce has been the choice of health-conscious, environmentally concerned Americans who have been willing to pay a little more for certified meat, fruits and vegetables.

Maine’s campaign to reverse progress in health reform entered a new phase this week, when state Attorney General William Schneider filed suit in federal court, seeking to speed up the federal decision-making process on a state plan to eliminate health coverage for 33,000 people.

A scathing investigation by Maine Sunday Telegram writer Colin Woodard should cause lawmakers to put the brakes on Maine’s virtual school and digital learning programs and ask who these policies are really designed to help.

On Labor Day weekend, Mainers’ thoughts inevitably turn to what is equally inevitably drawing closer with each page that is turned on the calendar.