Our View: Cooperation in the North Atlantic would help lobster industry on both sides of border

Our View: Get kids their summer meals – it’s worth whatever it takes

Experience has shown that helping kids with hunger pays great dividends. We shouldn't let anything stand in the way.

Our View: Lessons of school sports more important than score

All the tinkering in the world won't keep some schools from having good years when others aren't.

Our View: Poverty, not parents, is the reason students are missing school

Families are getting help from local schools. What they really need are the resources to get by.

Our View: It’s time to pick the president by national popular vote

The Electoral College process is the only one we've ever known. That's not a good reason to stay with it.

Our View: Devastating storm will require substantial response from us all

As the waters start to recede, it ranks as the worst flood in Maine since 1987. At least four people are dead, and the damage is sure to measured in billions of dollars.

Our View: Remarkable population growth, remarkable opportunity for Maine

Big-picture changes in American life are playing into Maine's strengths.

Our View: Use surplus to help out Mainers left behind – and further power economy

With the economy working very well for some and not at all for others, a targeted approach is required.

Our View: Mills administration is failing in effort to fix child welfare system

The state's ability to recognize children in peril and act on their behalf is getting worse.

Our View: Metal mining has no place in future of Katahdin region

There is too much of a chance of something going wrong if Maine allows a mine in such an environmentally sensitive place.