VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Profit-making businesses not exempt from health law

Several Roman Catholic organizations have challenged Obama administration rules requiring religious colleges and hospitals (but not churches themselves) to offer preventive health care, including contraceptive coverage, with no deductibles or co-pays.

OUR OPINION: Fight to cut MaineCare not worth winning

The LePage administration continues to push a MaineCare reduction plan that, at best, will result in a costly legal showdown, wasting state funds that could be better spent elsewhere. At worst, this strategy will cost lives instead of just dollars.

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Romney leaves foreign policy issues hanging

For the past seven days, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, spoke about American foreign policy and traveled the globe, starting with an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Reno, Nev., then a trip to Great Britain, Israel and Poland.

VIEW FROM ELSEWHERE: Stifling democracy

Every day in Washington, government officials -- at the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, Congress or the CIA, to name a few -- talk to journalists about information that is considered sensitive.

OUR OPINION: For-profit colleges not good use of taxpayer funds

It's time to rethink the system that funnels federal funds into businesses set up as for-profit colleges and universities.

OUR OPINION: Mom told you to watch where you’re going

Busy intersections should have three light-up signs for pedestrians -- "walk," "don't walk" and "Hey! Wake Up!"

We have history of overcoming dispiriting times

Yes, the latest Gallup poll numbers showing the public's lack of confidence in some of our country's major institutions are distressing. A nation needs to believe that its political and economic leaders have the character and vision to lead the country forward.

Food from Canada likely to help US consumers

The drought hitting parts of North America illustrates why it's never a good idea for any region to become dependent on a hundred-mile diet -- or protectionist trade policy.

Lawmakers will toss us over ‘fiscal cliff’

Congress has a plan, or at least has arranged the steps, for dealing with the country's deficit and debt problems. Come the end of the year, lawmakers will send all of us over a "fiscal cliff."

Today’s Editorial Cartoon: Bank Regulation