A task force’s suggestions could help small businesses and Maine’s elderly and taxpayers.

People with these disorders deserve to know where they can find meals that won’t make them sick.

The administration has let state support for education slide as tax cuts have taken effect.

A program aimed at college students who stay in Maine to work won’t help if they don’t know about it.

Waiving the minimum-wage mandate would help more than extending another benefit program.

The failure to extend long-term benefits will hurt those hardest hit by the recession, including thousands in Maine.

Requiring factories to make cleaner-burning stoves will do the air no good if they don’t work as a heat source.