An organization that has built something out of nothing has big plans for the future.

You can’t blame Bath Iron Works for a decision that under former Pentagon rules would increase its chances of getting contracts to build more of a new class of warships.

But when the U.S. Navy changed those rules in a way that seems to block BIW from bidding on any of those vessels, that’s a move that puts national security in second place.

BIW has apparently lost out on the opportunity to build any “littoral” combat ships, designed for shallow coastal waters. C’est la vie, some would say. But that ignores BIW’s reputation as the country’s best shipyard for vessels of a similar size and purpose.

The premise on which the wind-power industry is founded is false and eco-hostile.

Bill Nemitz’s take on the collapse of the party’s ‘machine’ showed its flaw, in great detail.

Maine still has too many school districts and the state should keep working to reduce them.

Maine has had bipartisan consensus on the environment, and it can have it again.

While each idea can be debated, Americans should agree to do something – and soon.

The belief that girls are always passive and boys are aggressive fuels too-strict dance rules.

What kind of organization will work in an era in which political parties are losing their grip?

Opinions of the conflicts in which they served make no difference in the respect they are due.