Maine Voices: Next month’s Trek Across Maine a celebration of Maine community

The annual fundraising cycling event promotes lung health and speaks to the strength of our social fabric.

Maine Compass: Gov. Mills has led efforts to truly support veterans

Maine Voices: Gold Star families know ‘the pain that cannot forget’

The years go by, but for those who are left behind, time does not erase loss.

Paul Mills: Linn Wells and the Monday Memorial Day

Hilary Koch: ‘Everyone else has solved it. Solve it’

The price of political cowardice toward guns is the continued loss of life.

Jim Fossel: Ukraine aid is in our national interest

But conservatives who call themselves nationalists are mistakenly opposing it.

The Maine Millennial: Attack ad teaches Gov. Mills the wrong lesson

Don’t yield to bullies – they'll just keep coming back for more.

The View From Here: The real power of ‘the gun lobby’

We can’t pass meaningful public safety laws until we can overcome a fatal lack of trust.

Commentary: When partisanship trumps journalistic integrity, the truth loses

It is clear that smear has carried the day when the Press Herald’s editorial page editor is willing to brand someone a liar without even calling that person.

Maine Voices: Laws reducing the number of guns in our communities work – if we pass them

We don’t hear about the massacres that were prevented because Connecticut passed strict laws after Newtown. Here’s one example.