Youngsters have pitched in on farms for generations. The age-old tradition is nothing new.

The United States Justice Department has opted not to reopen the 1970 Kent State shooting investigation. Four-plus decades have come and gone, so we agree with that decision.

Maine’s Freedom of Access Law makes it very clear that public meetings and public records should be just that — public. Yet Mainers run into problems when they are trying to get records that the law says they have a right to see.

A state that prides itself on being open for business ought to know what business it is in.

Some people want government to behave more like business. Revelations about the government officials who found high-paying jobs in the University of Maine System just as the Baldacci administration was leaving town shows why that is rarely a good idea.

Like a Pony Express rider wobbling toward Fort Laramie with an arrow in his hat, the Senate bill passed last week to reform the U.S. Postal Service is far from its goal and facing attack from all sides.

It’s well known that most of the readers of fashion magazines don’t look like the images they see on the pages.

For years, parents who wanted to keep their children’s computer usage safe have heard the same advice:

The regulators at the federal Environmental Protection Agency listened to the concerns of the oil and gas industry. Then they made adjustments in proposed air quality standards for the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing.

Offshore oil drilling may be a critical part of the United States’ domestic energy industry, but the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling doesn’t think it’s safe enough yet.