Some of the biggest issues facing state lawmakers remain unresolved, including the budget and thorny policy issues like ...

Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine, delivered her famous Declaration of Conscience speech on June 1, 1950, on the floor of ...

In addition to creating an inequity between tipped workers and everyone else, reducing the Social Security credits for many ...

Rather than coronate former Gov. Paul LePage as the challenger to Rep. Jared Golden, Maine Republicans should promote a ...

Research funding at big universities is being weed-whacked out of budgets. Just a few weeks ago, the University of Maine laid ...

I would like to applaud and strongly support what critic Jon Calame said in his May 18, 2025 column in the Sunday Telegram regarding the proposed Old Port Square tower. I think Calame was being very ...

My father was a frontline surgeon during World War II. His unit liberated the Dachau concentration camp. He saw firsthand the horrors of war. Like many Americans, I’m astounded by the cruelty of the ...

The front page article in the Maine Sunday Telegram (“Grieving Brunswick, York high school athletes find comfort in sports,” May 25) on the best of what youth sports can be about. So much recent focus ...

Hannah Pingree recently announced her resignation from the role of director of the governor’s Office of Policy Innovation. We remember Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree, a failing, ...

There is no doubt at all that a forward-looking Maine would benefit greatly from robust networks of both rail and trail. But ...

In a powerful 1982 film, “The Verdict,” Paul Newman delivers one of the most touching defenses of evident truth ever captured on film – for a woman rendered crippled through drugs mistakenly given to ...

Like a bug being crushed underneath a heel — that’s what fascism feels like. And that’s what President Trump and his minions intend — to keep everyone feeling so low that no one has the energy to act.