For Maine, rejection of Medicaid expansion proving to be a good decision

States that approved expansion are facing rapidly rising enrollment and costs.

Drive to make students pay to play sports is unfair and short-sighted

What about band, choir and other extracurricular activities? Should they be pay-to-play as well?

More red states accept Obamacare

Battles over Medicaid won't end, but expansion to all 50 states seems inevitable.

Young people drawn back to Maine, but they need more than good jobs

Racial diversity, affordable housing, high-speed Internet all vital parts of the whole.

One tragedy supplants another, as people cope with effects of trauma

Traumatic events suffered in childhood have been found to have deep effects on people, both their behavior and physical health.

College speakers aren’t worth the price of admission

Universities are overpaying for commencement and academic-year lectures.

Perfecting democracy starts with voters, not the institution itself

In every political project, I assume everyone except actual sociopaths has some elements of idealism mixed in with self-interest and the lust for power.

Idea of ‘safe space,’ as defined on college campuses, is inherently totalitarian

The only way to be "safe" from having one's core beliefs disparaged or dismissed is to abolish diversity and disagreement altogether — to mandate the one right way of life and of thinking.

I’m a curmudgeon out of time

The heyday of the curmudgeon has passed, but I think I'm as bad as Mr. Wilson down the block.

In defense of Waterville Principal Don Reiter