Truly, when I wrote my last column back in May, I thought I was done with the university president role. And I have to report that retirement — all two days of it — was great.

Faced with a well-financed blizzard of “negative” advertisements, some candidates for the U.S. Senate seat tossed aside by Olympia Snowe are crying foul.

As state treasurer, my job does not include commenting about political advertisements. It does require, however, that I defend and help enhance Maine state government’s vitally important credit rating.

I’ve written variations of this column a couple of times during the past 20 years, but certain occasions bear revisiting — and surely the disappearance of a friend is one.

To write about health care and politics is to write about the sacred and the profane.

Since everyone seems to agree that energy cost is a main impediment to Maine’s prosperity, a vote on Wednesday could have a significant effect on our future.

SARASOTA, Fla. — The best political minds at Romney headquarters have come up with an antidote to the candidate’s floundering presidential bid: “More Mitt” — putting more of him in front of more voters more often.

President Barack Obama admits his administration failed to find many of those “shovel-ready” projects he meant to finance with its stimulus money dump.

On Sept. 18, Mike Tipping’s column, “Republicans said rates would fall with insurance law — didn’t happen,” lashed out at Public Law 90, the health insurance overhaul that passed the Legislature last year.