Jim Fossel: GOP candidates should say what they are for

It's not too soon to identify issues that most Republicans agree on, and set the party's agenda for 2020.

J. Lauren Sangster, Portland: A voice from the past still soothes

Commissioner Liberty: Editorial casts Maine’s correctional system in unduly bleak light

The rehabilitation of our friends, family and neighbors drives the system and Maine's Department of Corrections.

Noah Smith: Education is for everyone, but college isn’t

Maine Compass: Why I quit playing banjo

"Musician's dystonia" forced the author to put down his instrument, at least professionally.

Maine Voices: Any American can be a patriot without being a nationalist

Patriots are committed to liberty and democracy, while nationalists value the symbols of a nation.

Tom Waddell: Mills makes up for lost years

Gov. Janet Mills is reversing a lot of harm done by Gov. Paul LePage.

Maine Voices: Immigrants are the new American faces of the green revolution

Recently arrived Angolan and Congolese migrants have an assimilation role model in Maine's Somali farmers.

Another View: Freedom of speech is vital to a well-functioning democracy

Maine Voices: Hard work of dedicated Long Creek staff unfairly overlooked

The Press Herald Editorial Board keeps taking swipes at people who help youths with no other place to go.