You can’t smell, taste or see carbon monoxide, but it will kill you nevertheless.

With more credit available to small businesses, we may see serious employment gains next. year.

Wind power may not be perfect, but fighting every project just doesn’t make sense.

Annual district meetings offer a chance to say how scarce funds should be spent in the city.

A system geared to short-term response is leaving deeply ill people at risk of harm.

A glossy upscale magazine digs what Portland has to offer, but there’s much, much more.

Unless a recount overturns their approval, Maine voters have finally allowed casino gambling. It only took 10 years, millions of dollars spent by both sides and the Groundhog Day-esque repeating of gaming’s promised virtues and revenue.

For the record, we’re having none of it. If the casino in Oxford County delivers on half of what its backers promised, we’ll be pleased. If it’s only half as damaging to the local economy and community as it could be, we’ll consider the glass half-full.

Now that the campaign is over, his policy ideas should be given a chance to succeed.

Both research and experience say they work, whether ordinary citizens like it or not.

As President Obama’s post-election words showed, fortunes shift quickly in politics.