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.

Instead of touting an unrealistic Democratic budget plan in the face of an unrealistic Republican budget plan, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., just did something significant — and responsible.

A college education has always been a major investment, but one that was not out of reach for a student who had the drive and commitment to pay back student loans.

Some people say they find Gov. Paul LePage refreshing. The governor says what he thinks, they say, and he comes across as a plain spoken, regular guy, talking politics like someone you’d meet at the local coffee shop. But we have a right to hold the governor to a much higher standard than we have for any local loudmouth blowing off steam.

The Social Security trustees projected this week that funding for retirement benefits will run short in 2033, three years sooner than had been estimated a year ago. After that, the program will be able to pay only about 75 percent of the amount now promised to retirees and the disabled.

We have a message for everyone who travels on a crumbling road to get to work, or hopes to get a job putting some of those roads back into shape: Gov. Paul LePage is holding you hostage.