Sometimes the best deal you can reach through compromise is still not good enough.

Kids who never read the paper or watch the TV news still manage to know stuff. The question is, how?

Why shouldn’t Mainers get to meet all the candidates and vote before the field has been winnowed?

Unusual traditions make for memories that are a family’s own – and the more special for being so.

What GOP legislative candidate wouldn’t want to borrow a page or two from the governor?

The process to hire a new planning director should get as much public input as the search for a police chief.

M.D. Harmon’s work will be missed even by readers who think they disagree with him on everything.

Maybe it’s not far-fetched to think a small protest movement can alter the balance of power.

Portland’s new system puts power in the hands of voters attracted to the least attractive candidates.