You really haven't tasted lobster until you've tasted it in Maine, in one of those on-the-water lobster houses, where it doesn't matter how much of a mess you make because the seagulls will clean it up afterward.
Ben Arnon | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living
My family's goal is to weave together a documentary of intersecting stories of family, history, culture, entrepreneurship, religion, and love.
The New York Times | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
In Hawaii, state employees are bracing for furloughs of three days a month over the next two years, the equivalent of a 14 percent pay cut. In Idaho, ...
AMERICA blog | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Big news from Maine. On the plus side, the campaign to save Maine's marriage law has been launched -- and they've got a kick-ass campaign manager lead...
Stefan Deeran | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Snowe believes that a government-run health care system may be the only way to respond to the health care crisis.
David Ambroz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
I'm a radical liberal awaiting equality but Daniel -- forgive the lack of poetry -- will you domestically partner me?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The collapse of the moderate opposition to gay marriage is both partially caused by the right wing of the Republican Party's increasing isolation on the fringes of American politics.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
Two Democratic governors -- John Lynch of New Hampshire and John Baldacci of Maine -- have opposed gay marriage in the past and now must respond to their legislature's actions.
AP | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
AUGUSTA, Maine — A same-sex marriage bill is going to the Maine Senate and House with a strong committee endorsement. Eleven of the 14 Judiciar...
Art Levine | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The conventional wisdom among members of the Washington punditocracy is that the EFCA is essentially dead or doomed, in part because of the defections of moderate Senators Specter and Lincoln.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
For the state to sanction marriage between males and females, but to deny the same to gay couples violates our Constitution. More than that, it violates the basic essence of who we are as a people.
AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
AUGUSTA, Maine — A public hearing on allowing gay marriage in Maine has opened with a standing ovation for the bill's sponsor. Sen. Dennis Damo...
Stefan Deeran | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
I was proud as hell to serve in the footsteps of patriots and heroes. But now I am an unemployed veteran of war.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Federal stimulus dollars have begun to flow, initiating an "amazing" number of projects and creating jobs, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Wednesday...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 03.20.2009 | Politics
Think of what the Congress might accomplish if we had a few more women like Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe on both sides of the aisle.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
My child's increasing self-reliance has given me the time to reflect on my parents' lives. I've always been grateful to have arrived at midlife with two vital parents who live nearby.
Mary Lou Song | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
Arkansas and Kentucky were hit the hardest in a recent ice storm, and AnneB, a Kentucky resident, described how people were surviving in an icy Bluegrass State.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
Lea Lane | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living
The creator of this new system is my son. I'm not surprised he came up with this. As a single mom, raising teenage sons was pretty daunting, but we had spirited talks about government.
Lea Lane | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Rand and his brother used the buddy system to override many of my decisions, such as how late to stay up or which movie to see. The two of them together were a powerful force.
AP | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Unseasonably mild weather Monday melted ice on trees and soothed the nerves of those in the Northeast who have gone without p...
AP | BETH LaMONTAGNE HALL | Posted 01.14.2009 | Home
JAFFREY, N.H. — Joined by people seeking shelter from the bitter cold, parishioners at the Jaffrey Bible Church on Sunday thanked God for a warm...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
Beyond its regional concentration, the Republican Party's face is from another time. Indeed, nearly half of the Republican caucus is composed of Southern white men.
Good | Peter Smith | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green
Ben Dobson is making the 3,000-mile salad a thing of the past. He has planted 170 acres of salad greens this year, and the 24-year-old farmer is hopin...
Maria Rodale | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style