Maine’s campaign to reverse progress in health reform entered a new phase this week, when state Attorney General William Schneider filed suit in federal court, seeking to speed up the federal decision-making process on a state plan to eliminate health coverage for 33,000 people.

A scathing investigation by Maine Sunday Telegram writer Colin Woodard should cause lawmakers to put the brakes on Maine’s virtual school and digital learning programs and ask who these policies are really designed to help.

On Labor Day weekend, Mainers’ thoughts inevitably turn to what is equally inevitably drawing closer with each page that is turned on the calendar.

A ruling in June by a German court that the routine circumcision of male infants is tantamount to child abuse has reignited a long-standing controversy about the practice.

Enlisted soldiers who frequently break the rules in the Army typically don’t get much mercy.

Republicans are frantically trying to get U.S. Rep. Todd Akin to drop out of the Senate race in Missouri after his remark about abortion and rape, but not because it was offensive and ignorant.