Over the last year, Bruce Poliquin has shown that it wasn’t going to be business as usual in the state treasurer’s office.

Over the last year, Bruce Poliquin has shown that it wasn’t going to be business as usual in the state treasurer’s office.

Brutality is a fact of war. America’s enemies have long practiced it, and so in some instances have our troops. None of that makes it any easier to stomach, so U.S. officials’ outrage about an incident in Afghanistan that allegedly involved Camp Lejeune-based Marines is genuine.

Maybe it’s an election-year maneuver crafted for maximum voter appeal, but President Barack Obama’s proposed merger of six large agencies seems like a prudent cost-cutting move in financially trying times.

Congressional gridlock isn’t always bad. Sometimes doing nothing yields something.

It’s surely just an odd coincidence, the interesting juxtaposition of back-to-back speeches that will occur on Tuesday night when the governor of Maine delivers his State of the State speech in Augusta right before the president of the United States serves up his State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama finally seems to be standing his ground in the philosophical fight with Republicans over the direction of the country.

Accept, for the moment, the truth of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno’s version of his role in the sexual abuse allegations involving one of his former assistants.

Every revolution has elements of tragedy as well as triumphs — even the bloodless revolutions in the way people earn a living.

Saturday will mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The vultures it unleashed now are coming home to roost.