More than 4,000 teenagers die each year in automobile accidents. Many of these deaths are preventable. That is the intent of a bill before Congress that would create a national standard to prepare young people to become safe drivers.

How did it come to this? Who could have imagined such a thing?

To some extent, a hotly contested campaign for a high political office can resemble a production of Agatha Christie’s long-running London stage hit, “Ten Little Indians.”

For months after the introduction of the Apple iPad, hundreds of thousands of early adopters sat hunched over their new tablet computers trying to figure out what to do with them.

As long ago as 1917, acerbic Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken could write, “There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.”

Consumers already think they pay through the nose for what comes through the hose.

Will he? Won’t he? He will! He won’t! Finally, it’s official: He won’t.

Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address Saturday to decry abuse of Maine’s system for providing unemployment benefits and vowed a crackdown on cheaters.

Let’s start by acknowledging that Maine’s Clean Election system, approved by voters in 1996, has been generally well-received by the public and the candidates for state office who have used it.

What do the state departments of Agriculture and Conservation have in common?