By Paul Blair — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has friends in Portland, Maine. They’ve taken his call to impose government…
Year: 2013
AUGUSTA – Reporters from three of Maine’s largest newspapers will no longer have access to Gov. Paul LePage or his…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage on Tuesday applauded a regional effort that seeks to bring Canada’s competitively priced…
Snowmobile registration fee hike just one in series of recent increases on Mainers AUGUSTA – The Maine House of Representatives…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature voted on Monday to enact legislation intended to repeal Republican-backed health insurance reform known as…
AUGUSTA – On Thursday night, the Maine Senate voted 23-12 to pass a bill that would expand Maine’s Medicaid program…
By Pierre Lemieux – The history of New England and Québec have been intertwined through wars, commerce, culture, and migrations.…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature on Thursday night gave final approval to a controversial $6.3 billion budget for 2014-15 that…
“I’m a U.K. citizen hoping soon to become a U.S. citizen, a lifelong admirer of the American project and its…
AUGUSTA – On Wednesday, the Maine House of Representatives reaffirmed that taxpayer dollars can be used to pay for politicians’…
AUGUSTA – Democrats in the Maine House of Representatives voted Monday to enact a bill that would raise by 15…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Ethics Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into the lobbying activities of the Maine State Director…
By Pem Schaeffer — Dr. Thomas Sowell, the prolific scholar and author at the Hoover Institution, sometimes writes columns he calls…
AUGUSTA – Great Schools for ME, a project of the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC), on Monday released a set…
By Rep. Lawrence E. Lockman (R-Amherst) For compelling evidence that Maine’s public schools are long overdue for an overhaul, check…
The Politico website has noted that there is a Republican governor giving Democrats fits who isn’t named Paul LePage. It’s…
AUGUSTA – Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday delivered a set of recommendations to the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee as it enters the…
From the House Republican Office GOP rallies to convince Dems to vote for bills to ensure recruiter access to schools…
By Julie Norsworthy On Friday May 17th my sons and I entered the Cross building for our first experience in the…
The Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation’s Daren Bakst reports that the agriculture bill currently under debate in the nation’s capital has…
WESTBROOK, Maine – The Westbrook schools have hired an attorney to help navigate a legal dispute with an equipment consultant…
House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) has been the driving force behind the Maine Democrat’s relentless campaign to expand…
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us…
AUGUSTA – Democratic lawmakers announced on Wednesday an alternative to Gov. Paul LePage’s five month old budget proposal that includes…
UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned that a member of the Messalonskee Middle School “Leadership Team” – a group of…
Maine could face a drastic surge in Medicaid spending for long-term medical care if nothing is done to address a…
WATERBORO, Maine – Training, Education, and Accountability in Christian Homes (T.E.A.C.H.), a Waterboro-based group of York County families who home…
The lone dissenting voice on the five-member Commission to Study the Conduct of Elections in Maine has warned state officials…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Thursday released the 6th edition of Rich States, Poor States – a comprehensive…
All the flapping, squawking and screeching that greeted the LePage administration’s “letter-grade” ranks for Maine public schools was intensified earlier…
AUGUSTA – Scripted chants filled the air Wednesday as activists from the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) and the Maine…
AUGUSTA – In a late night session of the Maine House of Representatives, state lawmakers clung mostly to party lines…
“Stop Paul LePage’s Agenda! Governor Paul LePage’s extreme policies have hurt Mainers. During his term as Governor, Paul LePage increased…
AUGUSTA – Sen. Dawn Hill (D-York), chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, refused to allow…
Tax economist and CEO of The Maine Heritage Policy Center J. Scott Moody testified Wednesday before the Rhode Island House…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday delivered a letter to to Democratic leaders challenging their decision to merge payment of…
AUGUSTA – Top lawmakers on the so-called Gang of Eleven said Friday during a work session of the Legislature’s Taxation…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal agency in Washington. It is absolutely essential…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats, led by Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Portland) and House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick)…
AUGUSTA – The Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted Wednesday against limiting Medicaid coverage of methadone and suboxone treatments,…
AUGUSTA – Democratic infighting continued at the State House on Wednesday as members of the Health and Human Services (HHS)…
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to be denied.” — Justice John Marshall, in…
Here, I’d like to discuss the so-called Gang of Eleven’s LD 1496, designated “An Act to Modernize and Simplify the…
The Mercatus Center, a project of George Mason University, has released a new video analyzing the expansion of states’ Medicaid…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it had targeted conservative groups for more thorough scrutiny during the 2012…
Watch the viral video of the Maine Democrats staging a press conference to attack Gov. Paul LePage, but failing spectacularly:…
YORK – He totaled a company van and subsequently failed a drug test, but according to workers at the Maine…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Monday met with representatives from the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) to…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to apologize for the Internal Revenue Service’s politically-motivated…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Saturday used his weekly radio address to once again call for action on…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday continued to roll out his education reform initiatives, releasing a pair of…
AUGUSTA – In a surprise move, House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) ordered Democrats on the Legislature’s Health and…
AUGUSTA – The Gang of Eleven defended its controversial tax overhaul on Friday during a packed public hearing of the…
Maine is the 6th worst place to retire, according to a study produced by Bankrate.com that considered a host of…
AUGUSTA –The Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday considered a resolve that would spend $500,000 over four years to…
AUGUSTA – The Gang of Eleven’s tax plan is only one week old, but supporters say the version that emerges…
AUGUSTA – Top Democrats refuse to say how long the Party has been working on their school evaluation system or…
U.S. Sen. Angus S. King Jr. (U-Maine) has obtained the services of NGP Van, Inc. — the same Washington, D.C.-based…
AUGUSTA – A top Democratic committee chair on Tuesday came out in opposition to the decision of Senate President Justin…
AUGUSTA – Maine taxpayers rallied at the State House on Tuesday in support of economic freedom. Despite multiple advanced notices,…
When a proposed law is drafted for consideration by the Maine Legislature, it has to carry a “fiscal note” citing…
AUGUSTA – Liberty-minded Mainers gathered at the State House Tuesday for an Economic Freedom Rally featuring speakers from The Maine…
Renowned tax reform crusader Grover Norquist, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Americans for Tax Reform, said Monday that the tax…
AUGUSTA – State Democratic leaders have suspended a rule providing for transparency in the proceedings of the Legislature. Senate President…
Somehow, it’s appropriate that a multibillion-dollar slam-bang government porkfest in which tens of thousands of undeserving claimants and their lawyers…
AUGUSTA – Republican and Democratic leaders held dueling press conferences on Tuesday over Gov. Paul R. LePage’s proposal to pay…
Reduce Maine’s income tax to four percent: Working Mainers would see their income taxes cut in half, from eight percent…
AUGUSTA – Giving hope to those who believe democracy flourishes through compromise, Republicans and Democrats in the so-called Gang of…
AUGUSTA – Expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – will cost Maine taxpayers $40…
According to a new report from the Washington, DC-based nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent more…
AUGUSTA – With less than two months remaining in the current legislative session, Democrats in Augusta appear to be in…
AUGUSTA – After more than a month of consideration, Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Cumberland) has refused to allow any…
AUGUSTA – Maine Republican Party Chairman Richard M. Cebra on Monday called on Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Cumberland) to…
AUGUSTA – While many Mainers have long believed the Maine Democratic Party is comprised of fools, two Democratic State Senators…
An Investigation by The Maine Wire finds the Clean Election Act has failed to keep big money out of politics,…
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, DC, has released a new video with clips of Congressional…
WASHINGTON, DC – Maine’s Sen. Angus King, an un-enrolled Democrat, took to the Senate floor Thursday for his inaugural speech…
This column originally appeared in the April 24, 2013 edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader By Charles M. Arlinghaus…
“Despite these relentless setbacks for the climate campaign, environmentalists are not going gentle into this well-lit night, nor will they…
AUGUSTA – In a party line vote Wednesday, the Maine House of Representatives passed L.D. 230, An Act To Establish…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s mayors and municipal officials have done a lot of complaining about Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage’s budget…
AUGUSTA – In a strict party-line vote Wednesday, State Democrats defeated a Republican-backed proposal to end forced unionism in Maine’s…
“President Obama does not want an immigration bill to pass,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a Wednesday interview with…
AUGUSTA – Due to “inadequate internal control procedures,” the Maine Department of Labor gave more than $100,000,000 in jobless benefits…
AUGUSTA – State workers who have been forced to pay fees to the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) since 2007…
AUGUSTA – Lawmakers at Tuesday’s public hearing of the Taxation Committee heard testimony for an amorphous blob of policy proposals that…
WASHINGTON – National Journal conducted an analysis of Sen. Angus S. King, Jr.’s voting record to date and found Maine’s…
AUGUSTA – As demonstrators gathered at the State House Tuesday to support a Farmington Republican’s push for better labeling of…
AUGUSTA – Less than six weeks after its first stint in the Maine House of Representatives, Democratic representatives voted Tuesday to enact…
AUGUSTA – The Maine House of Representatives voted Tuesday on Rep. Corey A. Wilson’s (R-Augusta) proposal to exempt concealed hand…
The Center for American Progress – a leftist think tank with intimate ties to the White House– recently published a…
According to the Associated Press, the Tsarnaev brothers were motivated by radical Islam: BOSTON (AP) — The two brothers suspected…
Ten – that’s how many bullets Democrats think Mainers’ firearm magazines should hold. Twenty-one – that’s how old Democrats think…
AUGUSTA – The Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee on Monday heard testimony regarding several bills Democratic lawmakers are pushing to…
Contrary to media reports, there is no federal investigation of Governor LePage. Rather, the U.S. Department of Labor will be…
The Way Life Should Be. Our motto rings true as Maine consistently ranks high in quality of life. However, for…
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Angus S. King, Jr., an un-enrolled Democrat, said Friday in his weekly YouTube address that…
Defense against land trust costs Limington taxpayers funds, property In rural town of Limington, a dozen miles or so southwest…
We have just experienced Tax Day on April 15 – in this year that marks the 100th anniversary of the…
Republican State Senators are co-sponsoring a Democratic proposal to restore the Maine Education Association’s (MEA) “virtual monopoly” of teachers’ taxpayer-funded…