The Maine senator would eliminate a controversial tax on medical devices.

It was 1987. She was a government official at the time, handling multi-million-dollar budgets and real people’s lives. She had a staff of 20, knew everyone in the upper ranks and had access to the governor’s ear. She made a serious dent in the Massachusetts human services agency that she directed. When she left after […]

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is taking the opportunity to remind women to get a mammogram. The Maine CDC estimates that more than 1,150 women in the state will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 190 women will die from the disease, which is why […]

In Washington, it’s called “the blame game.” Its purpose is to assign fault when things go wrong, so that voters will know who to support and who to oppose at election time. It quickly gets down to simple name- calling without much reference to facts. But fault does exist, and voters should at least know […]

Electronics used to be a simple thing. You needed a new TV or a new phone, you simply strapped on your Keds, zipped over to a big-box retailer, and came home and plugged it in. Easy stuff. Merchandise was reasonably priced, and installation was a two-step process that took about as long as a Justin […]

When it comes right down to it, it’s always about the money, which is why we’re glad to see a new report about the Biddeford Municipal Airport. Controversy surrounding the airport has been rampant for decades, with a vocal contingent of neighbors and others who want to see it closed down going up against recreational […]

Investigative work by Associated Press reporters has shown that Gov. Paul LePage’s administration worked to derail a Norwegian company’s proposal to site offshore wind turbines off the state’s coast. In an article published last week, AP reported that the multimillion-dollar agreement proposed by Statoil ”“ on oil and gas company based in Norway ”“ was […]

The shutdown of our federal government on Tuesday is an embarrassment, and it sends a clear message that ”“ just in case anyone had doubts ”“ Washington is broken. The divide between the Democratic-controlled Senate and Republican-controlled House has become so deep that no one seems willing to cross it, not even if it means […]

If people have been paying attention to the first quarter of the National Football League season, they definitely have noticed the amazing start that Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning has had. Manning is a future Hall of Fame player who has dazzled the league since the late 1990s. He’s broken passing records, won a Super […]

How they are mixed up, of all species, Oak and Maple and Chestnut and Birch! But Nature is not cluttered with them; she is a perfect husbandman; she stores them all. Consider what a vast crop is thus shed annually on the earth! This, more than any mere grain or seed, is the great harvest […]