In response to a rise in climate anxiety, particularly among young voters, politicians have made numerous “climate pledges” to transition…
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Seldom in American history has a president so boldly insulted the American people, played demagogue, or taken us for fools…
Back before it much mattered — ie. when he was just a senator from Delaware, just the chairman of the…
Today, we are all Laken Hope Riley. If the name does not move you, it should. We are losing young people…
Maine’s public institutions, especially the government-run schools, have been consumed in recent years with crafting policies on the basis of…
Today is “Officers’ Day,” otherwise known as “Men’s Day” among those who served in the Soviet military. My former business…
While running as a Democrat for Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James referred to Donald Trump as a …
The following is an op-ed from Representative Reagan Paul: If you had a dollar for every time it was said…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is big — 27,326 square miles, encompassing what passes in Maine for cities, Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor,…
Let me ask you, what do you think China would do if President Xi discovered thousands of stealth drones, quiet…
Renowned conservative columnist Mark Steyn has been ordered by a Washington, D.C. jury to pay controversial global warming activist Michael…
Tucker Carlson is neither Walter Duranty (the notorious New York Times correspondent in Moscow in the 1930s who helped Josef Stalin cover…
Any among us that hoped the Senate negotiated border bill would somehow be better than the leaks had advertised were sadly disappointed…
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas due to the ongoing invasion across…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) is set to deliver her annual State of the State address Tuesday evening. The speech, her…
I got the weirdest email the other night from Donald Trump. He said he loved me. It was very confusing,…
The mother of all migrant magnets has been under construction in Augusta for two decades, if not longer. Engineered and…
Sears Island has long been known as a place of tranquility and home to abundant wildlife, migratory birds, botanical resources,…
Official Washington is laying it on thick when it comes to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s “secret” hospitalization for colon…
With Colorado and now Maine having removed Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot due to his engaging in a so-called…
To Reach the Blaine House, the Secretary has Abandoned the Principles of Her Past In mid-October of 1859, a group…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is not a victim and she is not oppressed, cry as she may on…
Notes from a parallel universe… AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Secretary of State Eric Brakey declared Thursday that former U.S. Secretary…
Ten years ago, I wrote a column for the Bangor Daily News (back when it ran actual news) entitled “The…
In an eye-opening examination of higher education’s current climate, Bates College stands as a stark example of the struggles with…
Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection has a case of NRCM Disease Following the lead of their non-profit overlords at the…
Listening to Obama advisor David Axelrod compare the Hunter Biden probe to Benghazi, it suddenly becomes clear that among people for whom…
The following is an op-ed from Andrew Piantidosi, Congressional Candidate for CD-1 On October 7th the most egregious, and graphic,…
Education, particularly a college degree, has long been a ticket to the middle class and upward mobility in America. Unfortunately,…
The New Rule Will Not Reduce the Dirty Air We Inherit from Other States The goal as stated in the…
“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” A common saying in New England leading up to the American Revolution, this was a…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office has said it is investigating the illegal Marijuana grow facilities that have proliferated throughout northern…
“Mister Kissinger, he dead.” (with apologies to Joseph Conrad) As a little boy from Maine, the prospect of spending Thanksgiving…
In this column I have devoted most of this space to drawing attention to ways in which state government has…
The following is a letter to the editor from Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport): As a member of the Energy, Utilities,…
This week for the first time in U.S. history, the cost of interest on the national debt passed $1 trillion…
The following is on op-ed submission from Bates Alumnus Roy Mathews At private schools, like Bates College, free speech is…
Last week, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to form a commission to investigate the events leading up to and following the shooting in…
While the Jewish state of Israel faces the threat of annihilation, it is cruelly ironic that anti-Semitism has gone mainstream…
On November 7, Mainers will be asked to go to the ballot box to weigh in on eight referendum questions…
The systemic failures that led to Robert R. Card Jr.’s mass murder spree on Oct. 25 in Lewiston demand multiple…
The invisible shield that has always protected the people of Maine from the insanity of modern American life has been…
If their arguments are so effective, why do they keep lying? I think it is safe to say, without taking…
The current death toll in Israel from the terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad continues to rise to…
The following op-ed was submitted to the Maine Wire by the Republican members of the Energy Committee and reflects the…
On September 14, fifty-four members of the Maine House and Senate signed a letter arguing that a public comment session…
By now most Mainers have heard about the scandal surrounding Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, the top lawmaker in Maine…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Frank Lasee on September 26, 2023 National Lobster Day is a good time to…
Sam Patten had to survive getting nearly stabbed to death, twice, in order to live long enough to write the…
Gov. Janet Mills published the following radio address on Wednesday, finally weighing in decisively against a campaign by the Maine…
Mainers learned this week that left-wing mega donor Johann Georg Wyss, known as Hansjörg Wyss, bankrolled a national nonprofit’s purchase…
“How does a boy become a man?” Out of the blue, that question was put to my middle-aged son by…
Ignoring the Constitution is Becoming an American Pastime In an effort to address the economically crippling labor shortage in New…
You know you’ve struck a raw nerve when the majority party at the State House swamp blasts out a fundraising…
It was a perfect September setting at Gillette Stadium on Sunday for Patriot football: a misty overcast, intense humidity, and…
Peter Slovinsky is a marine geologist for the Maine Geological Survey. This past week he made the Maine media aware…
The COVID-19 authoritarians are on the march. Hospitals from California to Massachusetts are bringing back mask mandates. NPR is openly…
Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) has remained silent this week in the face of mortgage records, insurance records, and…
A top official in the Mills Administration told state employees at the Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Wednesday…
If you’re looking for a funny and educational review of how disastrous Marxist-inspired communism has been for mankind, you can…
Is Maine at risk of being transformed into a bastion for white-supremacist neo-Nazi deadbeats such as the loser who claims…
Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, a Democrat, agreed in a federally insured mortgage contract to make an Augusta house his…
Only eight U.S. states can boast that all-electric vehicles exceed 1 percent of all vehicles registered there. None are greater…
Maine’s liberals spent Friday bellyaching online because U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2), a Democrat, had the audacity to oppose President…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
Lawrence Lockman of Bradley served four terms in the Maine House of Representatives, from 2012 to 2020. He is co-founder…
Another week, another boondoggle from the Mills Administration on energy. Now, Mills wants to shift our electricity production from cheaper…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order Wednesday intended to establish a new migrant resettlement office, telling the Portland…
Several of Maine’s largest newspapers – formerly owned by Masthead Media Company – will now fall under the ownership of…
The following is an op-ed submission from Joel Stetkis, Chairman of the Maine Republican Party: Growing up here in Maine,…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
If every source of CO2 in the state ceased tomorrow—if we permanently turned off every light, furnace, vehicle, or other…
Mainstream media outlets reported Thursday on a lawsuit claiming that two Maine police officers wrongfully arrested a left-wing political protester…
This opinion piece was originally published on July 5, 2023 in the Washington Times. The insane election. That’s how I…
Thursday night, in one of the last floor speeches of the year, Sen. Cameron Reny (D-Lincoln) became the first supporter…
With each passing day, Maine sinks deeper and deeper into the quicksand of a potentially irreversible demographic, economic, cultural, and…
Over the past week, statements by two elected officials in Maine told a sad tale about the lack of seriousness…
The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that colleges and universities cannot make admissions decisions on the basis of race,…
The debate over Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill was one of the most controversial of the session, but it…
Joshua D. Filler is an attorney living in Maine. He served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Mayor of…
Two stories regarding Maine’s second most powerful legislator, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), have remained largely untouched by the…
Maine’s top newspapers have refused to publish a pro-life op-ed written by the long-time former Executive Director of Maine’s State…
The following is an opinion editorial written by Myra Broadway of Gardiner. Originally submitted to the Bangor Daily News and…
Earlier this year, Merrick Garland, America’s attorney general, went to the extraordinary length of actually denying that there exist two…
The upcoming November referenda authorizing $13.5 billion in borrowing charged to the electricity consumer’s credit card and cosigned by Maine…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) is going head-to-head with No Labels, the political third party that has pledged…
I love living in Portland, but I’m concerned with how much influence self-avowed socialists have over its future. The rent…
As conservatives across the country question why large multinational corporations and brands appear to be lurching left, it’s worth recalling…
You can almost imagine one of Tony Soprano’s capos showing up representing the school board at the annual town meeting…
The Press Herald has yet again been duped into quoting a left-wing astroturf group that purports to represent Maine small…
The following is a letter to the editor: During my 33 years specializing in Pediatric care my first motto was…
Maine’s K-12 Transgender Express encountered a speed bump last week just north of Bangor, jarring one of the wheels loose.…
On Saturday the Bangor Daily News published an article from opinion contributor and former Washington Post reporter Gordon Weil in…
The editorial writers for the Portland Press Herald have never been known for having original ideas or coherent policy recommendations.…
Riding what they believe is a surge of enthusiasm in favor of permissive abortion laws, Maine Democrats are moving to…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show this morning to discuss the Maine Wire’s reporting on…
LD 1735 is a proposed piece of legislation that has garnered national attention for its potential to allow the state…
If you’re on this media platform reading this piece of commentary, my guess is that you’re just as fed up…
The Maine Wire reported Friday about the $1.26 million settlement involving Dr. Shannon Carr, a Maine OB/GYN tapped by Gov.…
Barely half of Americans believe our country’s intelligence agencies do a good job safeguarding citizens’ privacy and civil liberties, a…