Two years ago — after the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century — one-third of the Senate proclaimed that “too big to fail” is simply too big.

We are a relatively new farm, even by the standards of Maine, where new farms seem to crop up every day. Every year is a “building year” and this one is no different.

A couple of weeks ago, psychiatrist Robert Spitzer made the news by writing a short but sincere apology to the gay community for his earlier support of “reparative therapy” intended to “cure” homosexuality.

On Memorial Day, I had an experience that made me think about how our society undervalues our veterans, and how people don’t have enough respect for their service.

Every Maine voter is able to vote in one of the two political party primaries on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — Republicans long ago lost African-American voters. They are well on their way to losing Latinos. And if Trent Franks prevails, they may lose Asian-Americans, too.

A very strange story, a 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios of suspected terrorists from around the world and chooses who shall die by drone strike. He even reserves for himself the decision of whether to proceed when the probability of killing family members or bystanders is significant.

Maine lawmakers have made significant changes in the way individual Mainers buy health insurance, so that many people not eligible for group coverage will see substantially lower costs.