Today I’m sharing three super-healthy recipes to celebrate the harvest season. All are made with my mother’s secret ingredient — lemon juice. You won’t taste it but she always claimed it’s critical to “balance the flavors.”

Last month, a federal court ruled that the testimony Richard Nixon made to the Watergate grand jury in the summer of 1975 should be unsealed and released to the public. The decision has the potential to settle finally the question of whether the nation’s 37th president was a criminal.

Stock traders were navigating Wall Street in high gear last week — selling, buying and selling again at breakneck speed. The pace along U.S. Route 1 from Ellsworth to Acadia National Park, meanwhile, was languid.

Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken.

Ten years ago, it seemed as if the nation was living a real-life version of “Jaws,” in which every beach harbored a potential threat.

Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, a tea party favorite and president of the House Republicans’ freshman class, got off to a slow start as a legislator but finally introduced his first bill last week.

The campaigns by Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman Jr. for the GOP presidential nomination, along with the popular and profane Broadway musical “The Book of Mormon,” are putting Mormons in the public eye. But common caricatures — not to mention some of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ public relations efforts — create confusion about this 14 million-strong religion.