The current pandemic has revealed that broadband is the modern-day necessity.

Will the Maine Principals’ Association crown state champions in the high school sports it sponsors this fall amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic?   No one can say for sure yet, but Tuesday was a good day for those prospects for one simple reason — planning for the upcoming season continues.

Last week, the Bangor Daily news reported that Maine was one of only two states nationally where the number of new coronavirus cases were actually declining.

As I wrote in my last column, researching during the pandemic was challenging with the internet the most available source.

In 2017, The Washington Post adopted an official slogan: Democracy Dies in Darkness.

It’s an old joke.

The next school year is approaching the Maine Department of Education and Maine school districts like a stalking predator.

With COVID-19 resurgent in the South and West and the president trying to provoke a race war, ho-hum problems like the existential threat posed by the climate crisis are taking a back seat.

The Region 5 Chiefs of Police is an organization that represents all law enforcement agencies in Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.

Without question, the COVID-19 pandemic has put additional strain on American families, the American economy and American public institutions with no clear end in sight.

It has been a good few weeks to be Susan Collins.

President Donald Trump has been accused of ignoring the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Monday, Gov.

The risk posed to political campaigns and elections by misinformation, disinformation, security breaches and digital manipulation have never been greater.

On March 17 the Maine Legislature met to take up legislation crafted to prepare the state for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

My two children attend elementary school in East Millinocket, and when we received word that we would be remote learning for the remainder of the school year because of COVID-19, I was worried. I was not thinking about my kids, who have devices and good internet access. I was thinking about the 40 to 50 percent of students in our local high school and elementary school that did not have dependable access to online learning materials. For some of those students who could “access” the internet, they did so on a parent’s cellphone.

Tuesday afternoon I learned the unfortunate news that former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and former commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development John Richardson had passed away as the result of a heart attack. I had the great fortune to know John, though interestingly enough we first encountered one another well before we met in person.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week caught up with public opinion and common sense when it ruled that it is illegal to fire a person for being gay or transgender. The ruling was ground shaking and a major expansion of civil rights protections for LGBTQ people living in states without non-discrimination protections in state law.