If motherhood before marriage is the new norm for U.S. women under age 30, it’s urgent to find out why.

The labor market has always had one particularly frustrating conundrum: Young would-be workers say that employers won’t hire them because they lack experience, but without that job they can’t get experience.

Two years ago the Obama administration sought to stimulate the housing market by offering certain home-buyers an $8,000 tax credit. Now some banks are coming up with their own incentives to encourage sales with cash offers to eligible sellers rather than buyers.

Great things have been achieved in 55 years of space exploration. But accompanying those achievements are a half-million pieces of space litter in orbit around the Earth.

It’s a given, during the presidential primary debates, that the billions of federal “stimulus” dollars were wasted. That money was said to be gone, vanished, and for no good purpose.

We agree with Gov. Paul LePage that education systems should be focused on students and their success. We also agree with state Education Commissioner Steven Bowen that 200-year-old town lines should not be the sole determining factor in deciding where a child should go to school.

Gas prices are soaring, and as the most oil-dependent state in the nation, Maine people have plenty to be concerned about.

Experience teaches us that proposals to “simplify” taxes ought to be viewed with skepticism.

Here’s some uncomfortable good news: Colonoscopies really do save lives.

For reasons clear perhaps only to the French establishment and French feminist groups, the government is phasing out the lovely and elegant word “mademoiselle.” As of now, it is to be stricken from all official documents.