A plan to put a 12-month moratorium on new casinos in Maine, starting next September, while a new commission studies the impact of the state’s two gambling facilities, may be an idea whose time has come.

Mitt Romney can’t possibly think he can get away with this.

President Barack Obama has gotten more notice for what he’s failed to do on immigration policy than for what he’s done right.

No one likes to be limited by regulations, but we all benefit from the environmental laws that control what gets released into our air and water.

There is no doubt that reports of administrative pay raises in the University of Maine System don’t look good.

We don’t often agree with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, about issues, but he was spot on when he called for there to be cameras permitted in the hallowed chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Congress is heaping great praise on itself for passing a law banning insider trading and bringing more light to the financial transactions of federally elected officials.

All that Army National Guardsman Spec. Dennis Weichel knew when a group of children neared his convoy in March was that they could be in danger. The Afghan children, in a northeastern province, were in the area trying to retrieve shell casings at a firing range to sell for scrap.

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that people arrested over traffic and other minor offenses can be strip-searched even if there is no reasonable suspicion that they are concealing weapons or contraband.

Pressure is mounting on Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to get out of the Republican presidential race, but it really doesn’t matter what they do.