As we celebrated the 235th anniversary of our independence this Fourth of July, it’s important to remember that unfair taxation was a key cause of our revolution.

Over the past decade or so, China’s policy of export-led growth has triggered double-digit economic gains, leading some commentators to predict that the Chinese economy — already second-largest in the world — would soon eclipse our own.

The Medicaid Block Grant funding resolution proposed by House Republicans is detrimental to Maine’s elderly and individuals with special needs.

I still remember the moment in my childhood in which I lost all faith in the innocent purity of plants. One day, I was a carefree adolescent at summer camp, exploring the leafy woods with my fellow campers. A couple of days later, I was an illustration for a medical textbook. “The worst case of poison ivy I’ve ever seen!” the camp nurse told the other staffers as she trotted me and my dime-sized blisters around for inspection.

L.D. 1333, health reform signed into law in May, helps protect Maine’s most vulnerable populations. Unlike past efforts, L.D. 1333 effectively serves these populations by addressing the critical issue of affordability.

I was 5 years old in 1947 when an old friend of my family from Germany came, as she often did from New Rochelle, N.Y., to spend a few days with us in Brunswick.

Generally getting Americans to spend money is not a problem. The problem is that they spend too much, often borrowing to do it. We are an unashamedly consumerist society.

The accomplishments of the 125th Legislature are nothing short of extraordinary. What began in January with questions about what course the new Republican majority would take ended with clarity about Maine’s new direction.