I have been a strong supporter of targeted tax incentives that encourage hiring or provide small businesses the resources they need to expand.

“I don’t want her, you can have her, she’s too fat for me, she’s too fat, much too fat, she’s too fat for me.”

This is the last regular column I will write for the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel.

Herman Cain, who suspended his presidential campaign this weekend after cascading reports of personal failings, is the exception. American voters are increasingly tolerant when it comes to private behavior

Thirty years ago, the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the United States were documented. World AIDS Day came into existence seven years later, on Dec. 1, 1988.

Should American workers continue to get a payroll tax break?

All I wanted for Christmas was a new sofa to replace the who-knows-how-old one that finally succumbed to too many years of pet ownership and general household use.

Most people know that men live shorter (by five years), less-healthy lives than women. They’re more likely to be the victim of a violent crime, die in a car crash, commit suicide, and be injured at work.

The first votes of the Republican primary season don’t come until next month, but we already know how it’s going to turn out: Washington has won again.