Last week, Governor Janet Mills joined Maine Public to shed crocodile tears for frontline workers who have been put in…
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With Maine’s 2020 statewide general election behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the first regular session of the…
Thinking about getting together with family for the holiday season? Think again. Just when you thought coronavirus restrictions couldn’t get…
In this election, Maine voters will become the first in any state to cast their ballots for president of the…
In a shameless act of cultural appropriation, this week’s column title takes the Black Lives Matter / Antifa / “mostly…
You may think the words of this title are harsh, and they are for an America rapidly disappearing. But I submit…
It’s Supreme Court nomination time again, and the result is predictable. The usual suspects on the progressive left, especially those…
The systemic racism industry has had its sweet multimillion consulting racket exposed and trumped. The President used his “pen and…
The Trump administration’s controversial nationwide eviction moratorium, issued through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month,…
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”- Moshe Dayan “You can only…
Last week, Governor Janet Mills issued a “curtailment order,” a tool Maine governors can wield to balance budgets after the…
It’s no secret that 2020 is a year like no other, and COVID-19 has challenged “the way life should be” here in…
I’m an engineer by aptitude, education, and vocation. Those of you who are also one, or know or live with an…
After telling the public that the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) would have the final say in returning to high school…
We are quickly approaching Labor Day and the end to the summer season here in Maine. When it comes to…
August rolled in and although the garden looks good, I cannot say the same for Maine, the Republic or freedom.…
I counted to 10, but it didn’t work. I don’t know about you, but I’m at wits’ end regarding the…
As a long-time supporter of the First Amendment and the value of free and open inquiry, leftist cancel culture efforts…
We’ve been watching the judicial gyrations over the fate of retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn for weeks. Each week a…
In the past 13 years, Maine voters have approved 38 of 39 bond issues on the ballot, totaling $1.43 billion…
Governors and bureaucrats are picking and choosing which parts of the Constitution they chose to obey or ignore on any…
We grow up being told to “look both ways before you cross the street.” Whether we knew it at the…
To state the obvious, Maine’s economy is in trouble. The 14 day quarantine has already wrecked the early and middle…
A few weeks ago, I read about the City of Calais declaring all businesses as essential and the city giving…
Time is running out. Time is running out for the segment of our population that has no job, no income,…
Today’s political climate is exceptionally partisan and overly sensationalized. It’s that way on purpose. Stoking emotional fires leads to more…
The COVID-19 crisis feeds into the progressive belief that a crisis is an opportunity to further an agenda by other-than-constitutional…
Last Friday, Maine Governor Janet Mills released a revision to her phased reopening plan, announcing that restaurants, retail stores and…
We all knew it was probably inevitable, but it is here, finally – the global pandemic which was occasionally scratching…
I’m not a doctor but I played one in real life. I served as a hospital corpsman in the United…
Governor Mills unveiled her multi-phase plan for slowly reopening the Maine economy on Tuesday during a press conference with Maine…
Dear Governor Mills, Many Mainers are facing desperate times. I would like to offer my thoughts for consideration so together…
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Janus decision in June of 2018, unions have begun to feel the pressure…
Lawmakers on Maine’s Health and Human Services Committee held a public hearing Wednesday on LD 2052, “An Act To Enact…
The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee is holding a public hearing Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. in…
“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are…
Governor Janet Mills earlier this month released her 10-Year Economic Development Strategy for the state, the first undertaking since 1993. While well-intentioned,…
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On October 8, 2019, the Office of Aging and Disability Services (OADS) released their quarterly update regarding enrollment numbers for…
Governor Mills on Wednesday released her 10-year economic development plan for Maine, the first such undertaking in our state since…
“…the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions…There are men…who mean to govern well;…
Last week, the government of China initiated a mandate that every new SIM card registrant submit to a facial recognition…
A new law that changes how workers are classified in the “gig economy” will become effective in California next month.…
In today’s partisan, impeachment-centric political climate, the following have become figurative lapel pins and brooches for the ruling class. As…
Last month, Maine’s Legislative Council allowed LR 2765, “An Act To Enact Restrictions on Electronic Smoking Devices,” to proceed to…
In Maine and 12 other states, local governments have the ability to steal the equity you’ve built in your home…
“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse…
Last week, Maine’s Legislative Council admitted a bill into the second session that would make changes to the rules governing…
Following a national trend, Maine lawmakers decided in June to raise taxes on tobacco products and e-cigarettes. Rep. Joyce McCreight,…
Over the past 79 years, I have observed that the more socialism is “successful,” the more it destroys its economic…
Last week in the news there was a teenage girl being exploited by the international community, and I couldn’t watch.…
“In the 1950’s [America was] the richest nation, the richest city on earth was Detroit. They voted for change and…
I have never been in jail. I have never been arrested. But I am probably a felon, and so are…
“A Fatal Tendency of Mankind…common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of…
This week, Portland city officials notified Fair Elections Portland, a pro-ranked-choice voting group, that they did not acquire enough signatures…
Governor Janet Mills issued a proclamation Monday calling the legislature back to the State House for a special legislative session…
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and…
It is tempting to think of America’s economic classes as stable and sedentary. Talk of widening income inequality has cemented…
Governments spend a good deal of time and money attempting to solve problems of their own making. Endemic poverty, the…
Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, is surely among the wealthiest institutions in Maine. Its capital assets, combined with its endowment, total…
Turn on the local news or pick up a Maine newspaper and it won’t take long for someone to mention…
There is a very profound reason that the American constitutional republic has created the highest standard of living, for more…
U.S. constitutional law depends on the purpose and limitations of our written constitution, which is only modified only through the…
To an obdurate defender of economic theory’s central simplifying assumption — that people act to maximize their long-run satisfaction –…
It is a fallacy that individual clauses in the Constitution can be considered outside of the Constitution’s underlying thesis; our…
What creates jobs? What goes into building a healthy and vibrant economy that creates real opportunity for as many people…
Karl Marx said that “Religion is the opium of the people.” Marx should have said “Government dependence is the opium…
It has not been difficult to find bills this legislative session that would be harmful to businesses or consumers in…
It is hard to make constitutional sense out of the cacophony of progressive sound bites we hear in Maine on…
It is time to rein in the taxaholic phalanx of lawmakers in Augusta who believe there is no problem too…
“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it…how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if…
Clichéd as it may be, conservatives live in “a target rich environment” for drafting commentaries on the absurdities of the…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have come to his senses on tax policy, openly questioning earlier this week whether…
This piece first appeared in the Portland Press Herald. During her recent inaugural address, Gov. Mills warned Maine residents that a recession…
Among the many harebrained schemes that will be considered in the Maine Legislature this year is one to establish universal…
“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare…the education of children…would be thrown under the power of Congress…it…
Reaching into the farthest recesses of my political recollections, I recall how I was taught that property rights, among others,…
One political point that most people agree on these days is that political discourse has become increasingly coarse and hyperbolic.…
I was born in Maine in 1990, making me 28 years old. I was raised in Maine, went to high…
Last week, the Maine voters cast their ballot to elect Janet Mills as their next Governor, and the first female…
Jared Golden did not receive more than 50 percent of the vote after the ranked choice vote tabulation. To say…
More and more we are seeing direct democracy take hold in our elected representative republic. We do not see this…
Question 1 promises a false sense of security that is destined to fail Maine’s elderly, disabled and those who care…
First, as a constituent of Sen. Susan Collins, I would like to thank her for her speech and her vote…
Over the last decade, Mainers have withstood an onslaught of attacks on our constitutional rights, especially those protected by the…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” It’s said that War and Peace was not about…
In this tight labor market, we must use every tool at our disposal to encourage laid-off workers to search for…
Oh, Edgar. There’s something almost comical about reading a piece of writing that is so bad, so riddled with errors,…
I remember instances in high school or junior high when something bad happened to a notoriously bad actor. In one…
The Maine Department of Labor recently released its projections for job growth for the next several years. The media has…
The more I try to parent teenagers, the more I recognize similar patterns in the political machinations of Washington, D.C.…
Recently, the Housing Committee of Portland’s City Council met to discuss the possibility of tightening the regulations surrounding rental agreements…
Oh, Alexandria. Ever since she won a stunning upset victory over her democrat primary rival, incumbent New York Representative Joe…
People don’t value the things they get for free. Giving legal residents who are not yet citizens the right to…
When Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap was accepting public comment on the ballot language for the upcoming “Universal Home…
Ballot Question 1 is another benign-sounding, feel-good referendum. In reality, it’s one more in a long line of over-simplified referendums…
I have a hunch. This late summer or fall, after Labor Day but before Election Day, progressives in Maine will…
This year’s voting will be more exciting than usual in Maine. The Democrats are eager to regain control of the…
Policymakers are always asking: ‘What can we do to attract young, talented people to our state?’ In Maine – which…