The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs held hearings this week on a pair of bills that would bring more choice and accountability to Maine’s public schools.

District energy involves the centralized production of heating and/or cooling services and increasingly includes the generation of electricity as well.

This primary season has been long — so long, in fact, that it’s easy to forget all the ups and downs and political lessons learned.

Woe to Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker’s justification for remaining in the Republican presidential race had been hanging by a thread for the better part of the month, and that string finally snapped last Tuesday night.

Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine, a certainty to win her fourth term in November, stunned the U.S. political world last month by announcing that she was retiring.

My grandmother was born in 1891, well before passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote.

Charlie Webster used to be the most conservative Republican I knew. So you can imagine how astonished I am to find out he’s now considered by some to be a RINO, a Republican in name only.

I never claimed to be a mind reader, as your paper’s editorial suggests (“Speaker likely misreads minds of Maine voters,” March 16).

Woe to Newt Gingrich.

Even when I spent some time living in Nova Scotia, a good deal of the local political conversation still involved Maine.