Local businesses have a hard time competing with online retailers, and not all of that competition is fair.

In a recent briefing to Congress about worldwide threats, FBI Director Robert Mueller said that the danger of cyberattacks — attacks on the country’s information systems — will equal or surpass the danger of terrorism “in the foreseeable future.”

The story is familiar. Beautiful, talented sin-ger, actor, dancer, and on down the list, succumbs in a tragic likely accident that may have involved drug abuse.

Islamic and Hindu fundamentalists are fighting a losing rear-guard action against an insidious Western custom — Valentine’s Day.

Attorney General William Schneider issued a letter last week that clearly spelled what state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin should not do if he wants to avoid violating the Maine Constitution.

The independent nature of the U.S. Supreme Court often has bedeviled presidents and members of Congress who would prefer to have more control over the lower-profile but co-equal branch of government.

Under the heading of doing the absolute minimum, Congress is on the verge of passing a law that would ban insider trading and force lawmakers to make more timely disclosures about their financial dealings.

Nobody is overly sweet on sugar these days, but a bunch of scientists out West have taken concerns about Nature’s sweetener to an extreme.

Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed overhaul of education in Maine must be a good idea. We know that because the state’s teachers’ union hates it — and the Maine Education Association more often than not hates anything that promises improvements in the way our children are educated. The teachers’ union is interested primarily in maintaining its […]

Add more ammunition to the arsenal of anti-smoking efforts with the latest report on secondhand smoke from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.