WASHINGTON — One can take either of two positions regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn’t matter, we can deter them, or (b) it does matter, we must stop them.

WASHINGTON — NBC News reported on Tuesday morning that Mitt Romney’s campaign was “throwing the kitchen sink” at President Obama: With prospects fading, the Republican challenger was trying any and all lines of attack to see what might stick.

As in previous campaigns in Maine about the question of legalizing same-sex marriage — a proposal to approve it failed in a 2009 people’s veto referendum — representatives from some religious groups have supported the innovation.

The column by Mike Tipping, “LePage actions offer examples of meaning of ‘corrupt'” on Sept. 4, gets it wrong and illustrates the bias of the author.

The decision by the Republican National Convention not to seat the Ron Paul delegates from Maine hit home for me.

It’s clear listening to many of my Democratic friends who are on the campaign trail and writing to newspapers they want to take Maine in a new direction: backward.

My neighbor Ron LaRue heard a commotion down along the stream in his woodlot, so he checked it out. What he found astonished and angered him.