Headlines
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Maine DSA withdraws support for Portland cruise ship referendum
The Maine Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are no longer supporting a referendum...
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for a post-pandemic ‘return to normal’
President Biden may have admitted “the pandemic is over” with regard to COVID-19,...
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Portland orders Deering Oaks Park cleanup ahead of LePage press conference on crime, drugs
Portland city officials cleared trash and a homeless encampment from Deering Oaks Park...
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Pandemic unemployment fraud estimated to exceed $45 billion
The estimated amount of pandemic unemployment compensation paid out to fraudulent claims has...
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The atrocious ethics of Fauci’s lockdown defense
On February 7, 1968, after American military forces rained rockets, napalm, and bombs...
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Maine unemployment ticked upward in August
Maine’s unemployment rate increased in August, rising to 3.1 percent from July’s rate...
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Legislative oversight committee votes to subpoena DHHS for child death records
The Maine Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee (GOC) will subpoena confidential case files related...
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How the government is causing a credit card debt crisis
Inflation still isn’t letting up, and it’s a top concern for Americans right...
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After 975 days, Washington’s governor will finally relinquish his emergency pandemic powers
For most Americans, COVID-19 long ago stopped being an immediate crisis and has...
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New cannabis delivery rules test scope of Maine’s facial surveillance ban
New rules for Maine’s adult-use cannabis program went into effect on September 8....
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Maine’s labor force participation lags the rest of New England
While the number of jobs available in Maine has recovered to near pre-pandemic...
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Maine DOE, MEA discussed withholding relief funds from schools that didn’t comply with COVID rules
As the summer of 2020 progressed, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) continued...
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Emails show how MEA, other interest groups steered Maine DOE’s COVID-19 response
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) worked with several interest groups in the...
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Maine DOE gave MEA, other groups access and editing privileges to official COVID response documents
From early March 2020 through the summer, when discussions about whether to close...
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Pandemic ‘learning loss’ actually reveals more about schooling than learning
There are mounting concerns over profound learning loss due to prolonged school closures...
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Most Americans support Biden’s student debt forgiveness until they think about it
If the inevitable tradeoffs are ignored, most people would be in favor of...
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Biden’s forgiveness proposal means lower quality education
As I predicted, Biden’s latest policy announcement spelled the end of the student...
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Governor Mills’ pursuit of California-style EV mandates will hurt Mainers, do little to address climate change
High energy costs are making Maine increasingly unaffordable for people of average means....
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New survey data Cast further doubt on the FDA’s opposition to flavored e-cigarettes
A federal appeals court this week sided with several companies whose applications to...
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Climate change facts, fears and fiction
Fact: Climate Change is a constant feature of the Earth, predating humans and...
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Maine high court rules against ballot initiative that halted construction of NECEC
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ruled against a ballot initiative that...
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Biden’s student loan bailout is a textbook example of ‘legal plunder’
There’s an apocryphal quote often misattributed to Ben Franklin that goes something like...
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The CDC (finally) admitted the science on natural immunity. What took so long?
In August 2021 Science Magazine, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association...
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Fishing interests ‘disappointed’ in federal push for offshore wind in Gulf of Maine
On August 18, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of...
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Nurses at Maine Medical Center vote to keep their union
An election to remove the Maine State Nurses Association (MSNA) from Maine Medical...
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Maine unemployment rate 2.8 percent in July
Maine’s unemployment rate was 2.8 percent in July, down from 3 percent in...
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COVID-19 gutted college attendance. Now, a solid labor market is convincing more high school grads to skip it
According to NBC News, there are 4 million fewer students enrolled in college than...
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Education savings accounts can do for education what Netflix did for TV
My dad remembers when his family got their first television. It was black...
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Biden’s giveaways largely benefit well-off Americans
During his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted...
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Teachers unions politicized US schools, not parents
When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what...
