I recently attended the public hearings about Madison’s plan to risk $102 million dollars of property taxpayer money to build a natural gas pipeline for 12 towns in central Maine.

I was utterly shocked at this paper’s editorial position on Question 3, the Lewiston casino. The convoluted and disingenuous reasoning boggles the mind.

Maine has one of the most unsecure voter registrations in the country. It is lax, it is error-prone, and it leaves room for much vulnerability.

I attended a forum at the University of Maine at Augusta on Thursday, Oct. 27, with members of the Occupy Augusta movement. I was intrigued enough to then visit their camp in Capitol Park the following evening (once I was dressed properly for the cold!). I received a lesson in democracy that taught me more in one hour than I thought I could learn, but the fact was, I was hungry for it.

I attended a forum at the University of Maine at Augusta on Thursday, Oct. 27, with members of the Occupy Augusta movement. I was intrigued enough to then visit their camp in Capitol Park the following evening (once I was dressed properly for the cold!). I received a lesson in democracy that taught me more in one hour than I thought I could learn, but the fact was, I was hungry for it.

It might be the water but I think it’s the Maine environment that fosters so many great writers. We’ve produced some of our nation’s best writers, and that has accelerated in the last few decades.

Election Day is a week from today and the diverse ballot issues and hard-fought local elections aren’t the only reason to head to the polls.

Earlier this month, a cross-agency team made up of staff from the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services sent Maine’s application for $32 million in Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge funds off to Washington, D.C.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — What was that about a Democratic “enthusiasm gap"?

My husband, Paul, and I have been cleaning out his parents’ house since my mother-in-law died last December.