U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – could become a…
Year: 2013
A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Colorado’s 21-year old Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) could have dire implications for constitutional…
Early reports on the Boston Marathon bombing have presented two theories as to who might be responsible for what White…
At least two people are dead and more than two dozen injured after three explosions rocked the city of Boston…
As Americans nationwide prepare to fork over Uncle Sam’s pound of flesh, 55 percent of respondents questioned in a Gallup…
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” – George Bernard Shaw…
AUGUSTA – As President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul causes regulatory chaos across the nation, Maine Democrats and other…
AUGUSTA – The lawyer who helped fuel sensationalist claims about Gov. Paul R. LePage’s March 21 meeting with state workers…
Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday published an opinion editorial with the Wall Street Journal in which he invited…
AUGUSTA – Republicans and Democrats on the Education and Cultural Affairs Committee sparred Friday over a host of bills GOP…
Maine – Old Orchard Beach Town Councilor and 2012 Emerge Maine graduate Robin Dayton has become the subject of the Maine…
On Wednesday the Lewiston Sun Journal, the Bangor Daily News, and Maine Today Media all ran stories based on the…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s Republican Senators sent letters Wednesday to many mayors, city managers, selectman, school board members, and other municipal…
LESSONS FOR TODAY FROM THE IMMORTALS, BUCKLEY AND REAGAN Remarks by Neal B. Freeman Amelia Island, Florida, March 23, 2013 Looking…
The Lewiston-based Sun Journal reported Wednesday that Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage bullied Maine Department of Labor (DOL) staff during…
This was “gun week” in Augusta, with lawmakers lined up to conduct hearings on more than two dozen bills to…
Our College came under attack last week. It was an attack on our students, our alumni, our faculty, and our…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats’ major campaign promise last year was the repeal of Republican-backed health care insurance reform known as…
On April 22, in cities across America, some environmental activists will celebrate Earth Day, claiming only increased government control can…
Gov. John E. Baldacci took to radio Tuesday morning to correct Republican “half-truths” and “misstatements” concerning Maine’s nearly $500 million…
UPDATE: Members of the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday afternoon rejected a proposed ban on Agenda 21. Only three lawmakers voted…
By Rep. Heather Sirocki – Here in Maine, we value our privacy and our laid-back lifestyle. That’s why it came as…
AUGUSTA – After shaking hands on an agreement to honor the Boy Scouts of America, Maine Senate President Justin Alfond…
BRUNSWICK – Bowdoin College entered the national spotlight last week when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) published a voluminous…
In response to the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, several leftist groups have been…
AUGUSTA – A Hampden lawmaker on Saturday condemned his colleagues following a highly partisan decision Friday to close debate on…
AUGUSTA – Democratic lawmakers on Friday used procedural tricks to kill a bipartisan proposal to protect Maine state workers from…
The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), a Fredericksburg, Virginia-based 501(c)4 lobbying group, began running ads last week on the…
Myth #1: The Medicaid Expansion is largely funded by free federal money for state governments. Under the Affordable Care…
If America’s fiscal state is as bad as David Stockman thinks it is, then it is in very bad shape…
AUGUSTA – Members of the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services gathered in Cross Office building Tuesday for…
Well, at least we’re not dead last. A survey of 8,000 small businesses across the country published by Governing.com on the regulatory, tax and…
AUGUSTA – Rep. James J. Campbell, Sr. (U-Newfield) was called out of order several times Monday morning as he vehemently…
AUGUSTA – Maine lawmakers heard testimony on Monday concerning Right-to-Work legislation that would make labor union membership voluntary for Maine…
AUGUSTA – Lawmakers debated a bill on Monday morning that would give Maine’s state workers freedom to choose whether they…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage told Mainers on Saturday that electricity rates in the Pine Tree State are…
The Do-Nothing Democrats in Augusta have two months and twenty days remaining before the Legislature must adjourn and still have…
AUGUSTA – Rep. Lawrence Lockman (R-Amherst) joined the George Hale and Ric Tyler show Friday morning to discuss a bill…
Is the U.S. conservative movement (or, more precisely, the Republican Party, which is not exactly the same thing) facing an…
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has released its biennial report on freedom in these United States. According to…
A front group of the Portland-based Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is back in the news over a report it released…
Maine’s Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) provides enterprising journalists a way to dig up dirt on matters of great interest…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Thursday slammed Portland’s Democratic Mayor Michael Brennan for his “innappropriate” attack on…
During the 2012 election, much ado was made over Cleveland resident Michelle Dowery’s rant in a viral YouTube video about…
The National Rifle Association (NRA), the foremost defender of Second Amendment rights in the country, is running ads targeting Maine’s junior senator.…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage said Wednesday via Twitter that he would give up his pension if Democratic…
From the House Republican Office: AUGUSTA – Well, there they go again. Yesterday, Democrats were telling parents that their kids…
PORTLAND – The Portland Phoenix’s Jeff Inglis is reporting that Chris Korzen, the man behind MainesMajority.org, has quit the Portland-based…
Republican leader and former State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin on Wednesday released a new two-minute video that succinctly explains Maine’s hospital…
AUGUSTA – Maine GOP Chairman Richard M. Cebra said Wednesday that Democratic lawmakers are falling short of lofty campaign promises…
Lawmakers on Tuesday considered two items of legislation that would force businesses to collect sales and use taxes on goods…
Democratic leaders in Augusta are using unorthodox parliamentary tricks to prevent the Legislature from considering a proposal to make Maine’s…
Maine Department of Labor spent more than $6.5 million from 2008 to 2012 on “training and support” for 851 Mainers…
State employees are speaking out in favor of a bipartisan proposal to reverse a six-year-old decision to turn the state…
AUGUSTA – As the 126th Legislature wrangles with difficult debates over the state budget, Democratic lawmakers are occupying their colleagues…
UPDATED: Lewiston Mayor Bob MacDonald announced Wednesday that city officials have removed 84 people from the welfare rolls and saved…
Center for Constitutional Government Director David Crocker joined Inside Maine with Phil Harriman to discuss a lawsuit he has filed…
AUGUSTA – Amid Friday’s debate over whether to raise Maine’s minimum wage law, some Democrats fear doing so might make…
At Gov. Paul R. LePage’s Friday education conference at Cony High School in Augusta, key note speaker Tony Bennett called…
Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage used is weekly address to talk about the education conference he hosted Friday at Cony…
The Portland Press Herald reported Friday morning on a lawsuit filed against its owner, hedge fund billionaire and bank roller for…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage held a statewide conference on education Friday at Cony High School in Augusta. The…
Maine is an easy state in which to exercise your right as a parent to teach your kids at home.…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) broke with the rest of Maine’s congressional delegation on Thursday to vote against a Continuing Resolution…
WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Democrats joined forces late Thursday night to reject a Republican-led floor motion that would have required…
Summit Natural Gas, a subsidiary of Colorado-based Summit Utilities, has decided to enter into a project labor agreement (PLA) for…
Two letters from the Obama administration to Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage paint very distinct portraits of the federal government’s…
Billionaire Democrat S. Donald Sussman and wife Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) are dealing with a lawsuit following the collapse of…
Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage has offered the federal government a quid pro quo regarding his willingness to expand Medicaid under the…
Assistant Democratic Senate Leader Troy Jackson (D-Allagash) wants Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage to forfeit his pension unless he his…
AUGUSTA – Lawmakers on the Criminal Justice Committee on Monday heard testimony on several bills that would restrict the sale…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), a division of the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, on…
George Mason University professor and renowned economist Walter E. Williams on March 7 delivered a rousing keynote address to the…
The leftist political organizations that control much in Maine politics on Thursday unveiled the latest initiative designed to advance their…
PORTLAND – U.S. Agricultural Secretary Thomas Vilsack on Thursday visited the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center in…
The Women and Gender Studies program of the University of Southern Maine will host author and sociologist Danielle Lindemann on…
From the House Republican Office: Washington’s fiscal irresponsibility threatens another bait-and-switch on Mainers AUGUSTA – House Republican leadership says that Maine’s…
In the face of tremendous opposition from Democratic legislators, the powerful teachers’ union, and even nameless vandals, Cornville Regional Charter…
Before the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest, there was a boomlet in some circles for (of all people)…
AUGUSTA – The 4th floor committee room in the State House overflowed with outspoken citizens on Tuesday as the Judiciary…
AUGUSTA – The Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday held a work session on legislation that would force Maine’s…
AUGUSTA – Sparks flew on Tuesday as Gov. Paul R. LePage’s nominee to head the board of directors of the…
The Center for Educational Excellence, a project of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, has released a new study on the…
By Sandy George, Montville The inspiration for offering this opinion was a personal e-mail sent to me by John Piotti,…
After weeks of public pressure, Democratic leaders on Monday had a change of heart: They now support repaying Maine’s $484 million…
Democrats on the Insurance and Financial Services Committee last Tuesday reached new heights of incivility in savaging Gov. Paul R.…
I’m getting real tired of being lectured about morality by the Speaker of the House, Rep. Mark W. Eves (D-North…
By Rep. Kathleen Chase (R-Wells) If most of us won a small lottery and received monthly payments over 10 years, we…
By Rachel Sheffield Heritage Foundation Last summer, the Obama Administration gutted the successful 1996 welfare reform law by offering to waive its…
As lawmakers in Augusta consider a bipartisan proposal to eliminate a statute of Maine law requiring non-union members to pay…
Residents in the Oxford County town of Byron will get the chance to approve a measure that would make the…
WASHINGTON, DC – Uncertainty and increased insurance costs caused by President Barack Obama’s health care law are leading employers to…
Democratic leadership held a press conference Thursday to ask Gov. Paul R. LePage to issue voter-approved general obligation spending bonds. The Governor…
Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour old-fashion filibuster of President Barack Obama’s CIA director nomination began Wednesday and lasted well into Thursday…
News reports told us of an odd and tragic circumstance recently when a man fell into a giant hole that…
Legendary conservative talk show host Howie Carr was talking welfare reform on Tuesday and referenced a story first reported by…
Mainer’s with concealed handgun permits may think their names and addresses have been kept safe by emergency legislation passed in…
AUGUSTA — As Gov. Paul R. LePage pushes for more customized learning solutions, a new survey shows more than half…
Some within the media have wrapped themselves in the flag of the freedom of access law. They are rallying to oppose…
AUGUSTA – Senate President Justin Alfrond (D-Portland) said in 2008 Maine could potentially solve its budget problems by not honoring…