Republicans should resist temptation to force redistricting through on a party-line vote.

Even in the basics of governance, there’s no cause too petty to block agreement.

Republicans continue to fall short when it comes to justifying electoral reform.

Sen. Collins and others wage a campaign to keep trucks on major highways all over Maine.

High energy costs are a drag on Maine’s economy, robbing consumers of their power in the marketplace and stifling industrial growth.

And our over-reliance on one energy source – oil – is the biggest culprit because it puts Maine families at the whim of events in the most troubled areas of the world.

President Obama said on Monday that he wants to raise taxes, to the tune of $1.5 trillion. A tax hike of this magnitude is an unusually bad idea, even from a president who specializes in bad ideas, and Republicans responded as they often do to Obama’s proposals: with a thunderous roar of “not on your life,” or words to that effect.