In light of yesterday’s announcement that Senator Olympia Snowe will not be seeking reelection, Donald Sussman’s recent purchase of an…
Month: February 2012
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine State Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick is predicting a huge payback on the carbon offset project…
Senator Olympia Snowe has just shocked the Maine political world with the announcement that she will no longer seek reelection.…
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead I fell down to my feet and I saw…
Editorial The journalism community in Philadelphia is in an uproar right now. Hundreds of past and present editors and reporters…
by Terrilyn Simpson One of the stories Jay Martin tells when he speaks before groups is an account of a…
by Terrilyn Simpson In a hearing room with every seat filled and no standing room remaining, members of the public…
Following is a press release from The Maine Heritage Policy Center: MHPC Praises Legislature for Eliminating Dirigo Tax Increase MHPC…
by Terrilyn Simpson Elm Terrace, the housing project that catapulted the Maine State Housing Authority and Director Dale McCormick into media…
Maine State Housing Director Dale McCormick has entered into a deal with Chevrolet to sell carbon offset credits from the…
Homelessness is a problem often associated with bigger cities, but frequently overlooked in small, rural states like Maine. But the…
Editorial After revelations of millions of dollars in travel and ‘training’ expenses that included staff parties, gift cards, and tens…
Ever since horror director George Romero created “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, brain-eating zombies have had a grip…
by Terrilyn Simpson One Maine landowner has called LD 1810 “common sense legislation that brings much needed reform to help protect…
NOTE: This story has been corrected from the original. Travel spending has risen 37% in last five years, training has…
This article has been updated with new totals in the millions. Click here to read the latest. Documents obtained by…
by Terrilyn Simpson The two inspectors showed up on a day when she was taking a rare few hours off.…
by Terrilyn Simpson They’re self taught. They’ve traveled the world solving energy and engineering problems. They learned practical applications of…
The Maine State Housing Authority was scheduled to release expenditure data today to fulfill a Freedom of Access Act request…
Editorial In the fall of 2010, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree was facing political extinction. After raging from the floor of the…
The Portland Press Herald is reporting that Donald Sussman, billionaire husband of Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, has loaned the financially-troubled…
The Maine State Housing accountability bill, after churning its way through sponsorship, co-sponsorship, emergency status acceptance – so that it…
by Scott Moody In December, I released a study that showed raising taxes to cover the budget shortfall at the Department…
by Jason Savage Budgets are moral documents. By now, if you have followed the debate about Maine’s DHHS budget and welfare…
by Terrilyn Simpson A Maine town has taken General Assistance administration into their own hands – and has seen big…
Following is a press release from The Maine Heritage Policy Center: MHPC to GOP: TAX INCREASE IS UNACCEPTABLE Republicans Proposing…
Sunday’s Portland Press Herald editorial appeared to be a careful consideration of state policy, but a look behind the rhetoric…
by Scott Moody – a member of the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission Recently, the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission (CEFC) met to…
Editorial by Pem Schaeffer “F-Bomb” here, as in so many other contexts, means nothing more and nothing less than the…
by Terrilyn Simpson It was a gun threat against Maine Governor Paul LePage by an alleged violent offender. And yet,…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin has filed a formal response to an ethics charge, filed against him by…
A number of things are interesting about the recent (and unsuccessful, though apparently still continuing) campaign by the environmental Left…
by Terrilyn Simpson Supporters of the Maine State Housing accountability bill were obviously chagrined by the breaches in protocol allowed…
by Sam Adolphsen It was supposed to “get big money out of Maine politics.” Now, twelve years after it began, the Maine…
Editorial by John Frary Al Diamon informs us that his contacts in Maine’s media universe do not welcome the Maine…