No compelling reason exists to leave Maine woefully unprepared to deal with a serious health crisis.

Lawmakers should reject proposals to exempt hunting and fishing policy-making from the citizen initiative process.

Even at a time of fierce partisanship, there are still some boundaries in politics.

To succeed, Eliot Cutler will have to deliver more to companies than they are getting now.

Despite what proponents say, the proposal is simply a response to the victories in quest for equal rights for gays and lesbians.

We can only benefit from documenting how those who work for them do their jobs.

Helping veterans, a big settlement, and MaineCare cuts are in the news this week.

L.D. 186 would dissolve state Board of Corrections and provide funding for jails.

As our jails fill with people who are too poor to pay court-ordered fines, Maine has the opportunity to eliminate the system that feeds these modern-day debtors’ prisons.

Gov. Paul LePage can argue over how to fund additional units, but they are absolutely necessary.