A recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report indicates the total amount of U.S. student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion.

As politicians hunker down for a long, bipolar year producing little, citizen-consumers get no vacation from the need to protect their privacy online. …

The Public Utilities Commission said yes to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new investment in a clean industry. You would think that would be a cause for celebration; but since the industry is wind power, the response was met with sharp criticism.

Second-guessing the design of the nation’s memorials is as American as the iconic figures they honor.

With all the partisan contention in the State House, it’s great to see that almost everyone can agree on one thing: Gov. Paul LePage’s plan to exempt his working papers from the state Right to Know law was a very bad idea.

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.