Maine Voices: Caring for pets takes more than love

Before making the commitment to care for an animal, an expert suggests asking yourself some hard questions.

Commentary: Time is running out for deal between Anthem, MaineHealth, CEO says

Unless something changes, the state's largest health care provider is ready to drop the state's largest insurance plan from its network next year.

Maine Voices: The individual right to bear arms is a recent phenomenon

Relentless messaging by the gun lobby changed public opinion and the Supreme Court followed.

Douglas Rooks: Religion’s ‘free exercise’ could boomerang in Maine, nation

Lines between public and private have blurred and the Supreme Court seems intent on blurring them further, Douglas Rooks writes.

Commentary: Beware Russia’s ‘nesting game’ in its war on Ukraine

Sometimes tensions escalate because of dueling factions among allies, not increased conflict between enemies.

Scholars Strategy Network: America needs to criminalize gay conversion therapy on children

It is a harmful practice that should be criminally banned on a both a state and federal level.

Maine Compass: My fellow Republicans must stop slide into election denial

Bruce Poliquin, the party's nominee in the 2nd Congressional District, is complicit in Donald Trump's efforts to sabotage democracy.

Maine Voices: Piping plovers need federal backing to complete comeback

From a low of just eight pairs in the 1980s to 125 pairs on Maine beaches last year, these birds can escape extinction with a fully funded Endangered Species Act.

Maine Voices: Gardens can’t grow without bees and other bugs

Pesticides and herbicides have cut populations of as much as 80 percent of insect species around the world,

Commentary: It’s way past time for sensible gun laws, safe spaces for our children and ourselves