Rather than continually providing “relief” that’s never enough, wouldn’t it make more sense to assess income and sales taxes partly through counties and municipalities, as most states do, setting rates by local option?

Gov. Mills should have known better than to push through the heating assistance bill on the first day of the Legislature.

Sen. Angus King recently announced he will run for re-election in two years, joining other politicians who are ready to keep going after 80.

It appears Congress will intervene to prevent a national rail strike by Dec. 9. Such a strike could cripple supply lines just before the Christmas holidays, and undo much of the hard-won progress in restoring reliable shipping at reasonable rates following pandemic disruptions still rippling through the economy. Keeping freight rolling is now a national […]

No one likes paying taxes, but since we must pay to get services we want and need, we should have a fair system to support those needs.

We’ll know our elections are getting back to normal — and only then — when losing candidates relearn the concession ritual, and practice it.

If Mills is to have the successful second term that’s often eluded her predecessors, she will have to shift course to remain in tune with her party, and especially its younger members.

Yes, elections are worse than they used to be, or at least they accomplish less in steering the course of the nation and each state.

For democracy to work, each voter should act as if the fate of the Republic really is in their hands.