Welcome to our new blog on Maine politics. We plan to use this space to offer deeper and more sustained coverage of this year's big political races than we can in the newspaper.

So without further ado... I had a story in yesterday's paper that discussed the First District congressional candidates' stances on various issues.

Here's the main link. Sidebars are here and here. I didn't have room in the newspaper for the candidates' answers to a number of other questions. So I'm going to be posting that information on this blog over the next several days.

Today: the six Democratic candidates on energy policy.