Jim Fossel: Maine Republicans should hold the line on new spending

The supplemental budget now under consideration should not be used to permanently expand the size of state government.

Through heart failure, stroke and transplant, a young mother powered on

Tiffany Dunn of Westbrook will celebrate this Mother's Day like none other.

Commentary: Beachfront ownership lawsuit challenges Maine Law Court errors

It remains to be seen whether Maine courts are willing to correct legal and scientific mistakes of the past.

Commentary: Let’s do what’s fiscally responsible and will save lives – pass L.D. 1090

The bill will help more people access Maine’s progressive treatment program for mental illness, promoting their recovery and cutting costs to taxpayers.

Commentary: Resistance to good clean-energy projects harms Maine’s economy, climate progress

Summit’s abandoned midcoast pipeline expansion was the one viable way to lower emissions from the region’s larger energy users.

Maine Voices: How to vaccinate humanity against COVID – one at a time

A single patient is filled with enough gratitude to make even the toughest clinician humble – and honored.

Bill Nemitz: Introducing Maine’s license plate game – potty-mouth edition

Behind a bill prohibiting nasty vanity plates lies a deeper question: Who would even want one?

Commentary: National Nurses Day cause for celebration – and action

Through a workforce shortage and COVID, Maine’s nurses have guaranteed high-quality care to their patients. Thank them – and encourage others to join their ranks.

Maine Compass: Anti-hydro is bad science, and won’t address climate change

The assertion that Canadian hydropower reservoir emissions are comparable to fossil fuel is false, writes a former PUC commissioner and an analyst for Hydro-Quebec.

Douglas Rooks: Fusion voting challenges parties to deliver