I never liked the term “clean elections.” The obvious implication is that candidates who choose not to use taxpayer money for their campaigns are “dirty.”

This paper’s recent editorial, “Slow Down, You’re Moving Too Fast On Income Tax Plan,” was too quick to dismiss our plan and the taxpayer concerns that generated it.

Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com) is an online platform where everyday people throughout the world can raise money for their creative projects.

ARBUTUS, Md. — It is typical of Mitt Romney’s luck that, on the morning after he all but secured the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign became embroiled in a controversy over a 1950s plastic toy.

As I stood in line at the pharmacy a few weeks ago, I was thinking about what else I needed to buy while in the store. Let’s see: Q-Tips, Tylenol … maybe I’d check to see if any makeup was on sale.

This week members of the Legislature’s Environment and Natural Resource Committee will breathe deep and rush headlong into four back-to-back sessions to take on changing mining regulations for the state of Maine.

Health care reform and the Affordable Care Act dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground.

The late economist Herbert Stein once said, “If something can’t go on, it won’t go on.”

Are Republicans ready to be trusted with the reins of power?