Comment & Opinion

The health needs of a community can change over time, especially in rural areas. What matters most is making sure people can get care close to home, w...

Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as “Occupy Wall Street,” I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: “Don’t be afrai...

Maine’s largest ski resort has yet to pay back $153,000 in taxpayer money it received years ago to build a dam that never materialized. Franklin Count...

“It was the best of energy policies; it was the worst of energy policies.” — Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (Apocryphal) Higher electricity p...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After a decade of Trumpism, it should come as no surprise that President Donald Trump’s ethos (presenting scandal as strength, out...

The Trump administration has made strides in chopping away at the corpulent federal administrative state. Nevertheless, the Competitive Enterprise Ins...

BOSTON (TNS) — Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than aging, washed up multi-millionaire former talk show hosts. Liberal hero Stephe...

As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marx...

DALLAS (TNS) — For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, su...

Most of America’s military budget is spent on weapons and technology, but justifying the value of some other expenditures is a bit harder. The Departm...

I AM a patriot. I truly am. I say the Pledge of Allegiance at every event, I can sing all the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner," I can even recite t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — My Manhattan apartment is about 800 square feet, the same size as my upstairs neighbors’ — except they’re a family of four plus a lar...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It’s a source of continual frustration for me that, by and large, Pennsylvanians don’t think of our state as unusually blessed with...

Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government’s attention to a per...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is slipping. Sort of. Because even though the president’s support among GOP vot...

Last week, Philadelphia voters passed a city-sponsored retirement plan for workers without a 401k or other employer-sponsored savings plan. Workers ca...

President Donald Trump withdrew a lawsuit he had filed against his own administration — instead planning to create a $1.8 billion slush fund that woul...

I was on the list. Earlier this month, I, along with 19 of my colleagues, found out that our names were on an alleged hit list for not truly represent...

When we are older and we look back at our lives, we often zero in on the regrets. The challenges. The hard times. The often-overlooked truth, however,...

It’s a story out of Austin, Texas, with clear implications for every town where the left dominates. Austin officials last year celebrated their elimin...