Author: Ted Cohen

Gotta hand it to Ron Johnson for actually voting to cut your taxes when the alternative would have been much easier.The Republican senator from Wisconsin just killed a bill designed to let certain veterans collect, in essence, two retirement salaries.Under current federal law, roughly 54,000 medically-retired veterans can’t collect both retirement pay and disability compensation.Instead, the benefits are offset against each other.A proposed revision aimed to change that.The legislation would allow combat-injured veterans with fewer than 20 years of service to receive both benefits.Veterans in his state are blasting Johnson, and of course they are. They won’t be allowed to…

The age-old requirement that college seniors must pass a swimming test is being dumped due to fears it discriminates against people of color.Dartmouth College just became the latest school to drop a mandatory swimming test from its graduation prerequisite.In doing so, the Ivy League school joins a handful of other elite institutions that have abandoned their swimming requirements in recent years, including Williams, Hamilton and Washington and Lee.“The shift says less about the merits of staying afloat than about universities’ preoccupation with racial equity,” reports The Economist.Schools with a swimming test as part of their diploma obligations have been doing…

The Blair Witch is seeking political redemption in a Maine town where voters fired her last year amid a bitter property dispute.The witch’s name on Friday The 13th will appear as the more common Heather Donahue.March 13, a Friday, townspeople in a town called Freedom, Maine will go to the polls to decide whether Donahue will get another term on the selectboard.Donahue was removed from the board last year after she allegedly overstepped her municipal authority.The retired actress, who moved to Freedom four years ago, was grounded for allegedly vandalizing trees along a road that’s the center of a protracted…

Ex- Freeport Police Chief Susan Nourse knows about breaking glass ceilings.After all, she’s been one of the few female top cops Maine has ever had.So it’s more than fitting that Nourse would hop in a replica of a 1914 car and embark on a cross-country trek lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment.The 64-year-old ex-chief is helping a campaign to reenact the trip two suffragists took in 1916 when they drove from New York to California and back in a two-seater that had to be cranked to start.The goal then – 110 years ago – was the ratification of the 19th…

The Democrat Gov. Janet Mills administration went crying to Maine’s largest daily Wednesday – the paper she counts on for a hug when the chips are down.The Portland Press Herald ran a piece quoting a Mills spokesman decrying The Maine Wire for allegedly being in bed with President Trump.The Trump administration last week notified The Maine Wire it was rejecting Mills’ request for more time to defend her embattled, allegedly fraudulent Medicaid program.“The flap stemmed from a U.S. Office of Inspector General report in January that outlined $45 million in potential improper payments for autism support services in the MaineCare…

The human Weiner Mobile is back!Carlos Danger, which was ex-U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY’s screen name, came out of the closet this week on The View.No not that closet, silly.The closest in which he’s been hiding since he became a convicted pedophile.“🚨 HOLY SHIT — The Jewish sex offender Anthony Weiner appeared on The View, signaling a potential political comeback and a possible run for office,” Dr. Simon Goddek posted for his 1.1 million followers on “X.”“When confronted about his past, Weiner attributed his behavior to addiction and claimed he is a changed man,” Goddek said. “He is now asking…

The so-called independent U.S. senator from Maine blasting Trump’s heeling Iran has been talking a vacuous game on taming Khamenei for a full decade now.Ten years ago Sen. Angus King, participating in talks designed to reach a nuclear deal with Iran, indicated time was running short.“The purpose of this potential agreement is to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon,” King said in 2015. “There’s only one thing worse than an Iran that is working to support terrorism and destabilize other regimes – and that is an Iran doing those things while armed with a nuclear weapon.”Fast forward 10 years,…

The 24-year-old from Maine and girlfriend of former Pats head coach Bill Belichick says GOAT Tom Brady ain’t got nuthin’ on her.This recent reference from Hancock, Maine native Jordon Hudson to seven-Super Bowl winner quarterback Brady is raising eyebrows for obvious reasons.Belichick and Hudson went public with their relationship two years ago and have since faced scrutiny over their nearly 50-year age gap.On February 28th, Hudson took to Instagram and wrote, “For the record, a 24-year-old flyer is the equivalent of a 42-year-old quarterback,” according to I95Rocks.com.Hudson shared a photo of a ‘Be Old’ pin alongside a large cheerleading ring,…

Given President Trump’s uneasy relationship with the liberal, fake-news White House Press Corpse, he could be forgiven for not attending its annual dinner. But Trump says he’s going to be there next month for the yearly event known for featuring a celebrity comedian who pokes fun at the incumbent president, whether he be Republican or Democrat.In Trump’s case, it was actually at the White House Correspondents Association dinner 15 years ago when he apparently decided he was going to be running for president.It was at the dinner in 2011 when the incumbent, Barack Hussein Obama, who besides being president thought…

The political party that took hold in Vermont’s largest city when the socialists won a mayor’s race there 45 years ago has proven nothing is more dangerous than a leftist armed with maple syrup.The “centrist” Democrat Party in Burlington, Vermont is accusing the Zohran Mamdani/Bernie Sanders Wing of the Democrat-Socialist Party in that alleged bucolic college town of spreading lies about its city council candidate.But that’s where things get sticky.The Democrats claim that the Burlington socialists accused their council candidate’s father of spreading maple syrup on the ground at a downtown parking garage used for a daily free-food giveaway for…

OK, enough of the Nazi tattoo already.Can’t we get back to the fun stuff like the “Great Sperm?”You remember, the good ole days, right?When Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner’s wife was talking about how manly he was? “I can say that, right?” as she coyly asked in a TV campaign commercial in which she gushed over his virility, exclaiming “Graham has great sperm.”Doesn’t that stand for anything anymore? Sources say Graham Platner is all in – he is begging us to get back to his sperm count. After all, if given a choice, which would you rather talk about…

Who in their right mind keeps a dozen cats in an unoccupied trailer insufficiently- or dangerously-maintained with a space heater?Cops say 11 of them luckily survived a fire triggered by a faulty propane heater in an outbuilding behind a Hollis residence.A twelfth kitty was apparently unaccounted for after the fire.The structure used to shelter 12 cats caught fire Saturday morning.Officials say all but one of the cats have been accounted for and are allegedly in good hands.The Hollis Fire Department said they responded to Hollis Road, where smoke was reported coming from the structure.Firefighters made entry and extinguished a fire…

The contributions of the state’s military assets are gaining prominence as the nation’s best tame the beast known as Iran.Besides two guided-missile destroyers that were built at Bath Iron Works being deployed, a major Maine airport is now reportedly being used as a launch pad for flying fueling beasts.A widely followed website on the social media platform “X” reports that more than a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers were launched Monday from bases around the U.S., some of which “appear to be stopping in Bangor, Maine to rest & refuel before pressing onward.”The Bangor air field is traditionally a…

An Edgecomb man accused of beating a young girl to death has been found guilty, state officials said.Tyler Witham-Jordan was charged with murder in connection with the death of 3-year-old Makinzlee Handrahan on Dec. 25, 2022. Witham-Jordan was the boyfriend of Makinzlee’s mother.Prosecutors said Witham-Jordan was experiencing opioid withdrawal on that Christmas morning and was mad at his girlfriend’s children, WMTW-TV reports.Cops used DNA evidence found inside the upper waistband of the girl’s bloody diaper and under her fingernails.There was also a broken hairbrush with large clumps of Makinzlee’s hair stuck in the bristles, authorities said.Witham-Jordan was arrested on Oct.…

A study by a conservative media watchdog shows that the four major search engines are heavily promoting mostly liberal news.So now the numbers confirm what we’ve long suspected.Dan Schneider of the Media Research Center calls the approach a “subliminal form of propaganda” that could potentially be illegal, arguing that these platforms are suppressing conservative voices.Schneider, the organization’s vice president for Free Speech America, alleges that major news-aggregation apps are heavily biased toward liberal, left-leaning or leftist narratives. The “Big Four” apps, which Schneider identifies as Apple News, Google News, Yahoo and MSN are the primary platforms feeding liberal bias to…

Maine’s now-most-notorious disgraced former respected politician has been dragged yet again into the Jeffrey Epstein sex spectacle.George Mitchell, who’s repeatedly denied having sex with one of Epstein’s underaged, sexually-trafficked girls, was brought up during a congressional interrogation of former First Lady Hillary Clinton.“Have you ever communicated with any of the following people relating to Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislane Maxwell?” a lawyer for the Republican-led House Oversight Committee asked Hillary, referring to the two famous convicted sexual traffickers.The lawyer then went through a list of dozens of names – among them George Mitchell of Maine.The recently released “Epstein files” contain thousands…

The son of the female half of the famous Sonny & Cher duo bashed in the door of a New Hampshire house, sat down in the living room and had a cigarette, cops say.It was the second time in two days Elijah Allman was cuffed and stuffed in the ‘Live Free Or Die’ state.Allman was first arrested Friday after allegedly causing a disturbance at St. Paul’s School, a boarding school in Concord. He was charged with two counts of trespassing, assault and disorderly conduct.Two days later a Windham, New Hampshire woman said someone had broken into her home and was…

Seriously, who is running the show over at the Portland Press Herald?And a show it is. All for show. By all accounts the largest, highest-paid group of reporters should be breaking news left and right.Medicaid fraud rampant. Boys in girls sports aflame. Fake Somali daycare centers multiplying. Democrat governor raiding the state emergency surplus for use as a taxpayer slush fund no kidding. All stuff you can read about in The Maine Wire.And what is the Maine Trust for Local News up to?Featuring on its website the Freeport Chocolate Festival, the best books to get buried in on a snowy…

Looks like those claiming that it’s time to put more restrictions on commercial fishing are up against reality.Thank God for little miracles.A new study shows it would be impossible to replace the amount of protein we get from the ocean with land-based agriculture.The analysis finds that harvesting fewer fish would require more land to make up for the protein loss, leading to loss of biodiversity.“Replacing the harvesting of fish would necessitate substantially more land for agricultural production to make up the ensuing protein gap, meaning it would not be a quick solution for sustainability,” reports SeafoodSource.com.The study, titled “Biodiversity Consequences…

The UN official whose anti-israeli sentiments led to the cancellation of a University of Southern Maine conference is suing president Trump for allegedly trampling on her rights to free speech. Francesca Albanese was to have been a featured speaker Sunday at a Palestinian-rights conference in Portland.But once university officials found out that she had been sanctioned by the US government they canceled the conference, which was later rescheduled at a different location.Albanese’s family is now suing the Trump administration for sanctioning her over her criticism of Israel’s policies during the war with Hamas in Gaza.In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday,…

The world’s 1.4 billion Catholics are just now hearing a confession from one of the cardinals who helped elect a new pope last May.Seems one of the 133 cardinals participating in the highly-secret conclave went into the meeting with a cellphone beneath his robes.The unnamed cardinal had taken the same vow as his 132 scarlet-silk-capped colleagues – no cellphones allowed dude.Everything was going fine as the clerics were preparing to take their first vote inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.But the electronic-jamming equipment in the building, designed to prevent outside communications, picked up the signal of an active mobile connection.The cardinals…

When it comes to caring for your elderly relatives, Maine’s Democrat-controlled government has some serious splaining to do. “Maine ranks among the most expensive states for long-term care,” according to a new analysis by CostCare.com. While the state’s aging residents are suffering the most-expensive healthcare in the nation, Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is fighting with President Trump over her insistence that boys play on girls sports teams and defending ongoing Medicaid fraud.That would be the same Janet Mills running for the Democrat U.S. Senate nomination on the premise that she is “fighting for Mainers.”Hard to square that with reality. She’s…

Maine’s U.S. Senate race could be among the first nationwide to see labor backing the Republican candidate.Armed with polls showing Graham Platner trouncing Janet Mills in the upcoming Democrat primary, a group of unions is urging the Democrat senate leader to drop his support of Mills.“Janet Mills is not somebody we will support,” machinists vice president David Sullivan told NBC News. “And if, for some odd reason, she ends up going off some miracle win against Graham Platner, you’ll probably see a lot of unions supporting Collins.”Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer “needs to stay out of Maine,” said Sullivan, eastern…

Who’s on first?The Portland Press Herald has a new version of the old Abbott and Costello gag. A LinkedIn post by Executive Editor Carolyn Fox purports to be a job ad for someone to write for the daily newsletter – which she says “has lots of room for improvement.”Not surprising – the 53-word post from the top editor contains four grammatical issues – in the span of just 53 words.So maybe the ad was supposed to solicit a copy editor?Houston we seem to have a problem. Or actually that would be Denver we seem to have a problem, since the…

The mayor of Portland just hopped into the proverbial political bed with a Democrat gubernatorial hopeful whose claim to fame is a questionable government-grifted home loan.What was Mayor Mark Dion thinking when he endorsed Troy Jackson for the party’s top state office?More to the point, what does Jackson envision as the benefit of a boost from the top elected official in Maine’s most radically-left community?Dion’s political history managing statewide campaigns isn’t exactly anything one would describe as prosperous.The former Portland cop, ex-Cumberland County sheriff and state senator ran a failed campaign for governor against the eventual victor – Janet Mills…

A so-called illegal “National of the Democratic Republic of the Congo” was pulled from his car by federal agents, as seen from a bystander’s video.BiddefordBuzz.com exclusively posted the February 27 nab and grab that occurred on Summer Street in Biddeford.In the video, immigration-enforcement cops can be heard asking an individual to exit the vehicle.”If you don’t come out, I’m going to break the window and pull you out,* an ICE agent was overheard telling the driver.“When the Biddeford Buzz arrived at the scene, we observed glass shards and a glass window panel on the ground beside the vacant vehicle,” the…

“Operation Epic Fury,” as the Pentagon coined it, had a little help from Maine.To wit, U.S. Navy photos posted online show the Bath-built USS Spruance firing a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in support of cashing out Khamenei.“U.S. and partner forces began striking targets at 1:15 a.m. ET February 28 to dismantle the Iranian regime’s security apparatus, prioritizing locations that posed an imminent threat,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “Targets included Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps command and control facilities, Iranian air defense capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and military airfields.“The President ordered bold action, and our brave soldiers, sailors,…

It came 46 years late but the families victimized by the 1979 Iran hostage crisis get to sleep a little easier now that Khamenei is boxed up for shipping.The grabbing of American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the failed Democrat Jimmy Carter administration included two Maine residents. A Mount Desert Island man, Moorhead Kennedy, died in 2024 at the age of 93. “I spent my 49th birthday tied up, blindfolded, and tied to a chair,” Kennedy said in 2009.Hostage, Richard Queen, came from Lincolnville. Queen was released early, in July 1980, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.…

A charity watchdog organization is questioning whether a Bangor firm supplying the nonprofit Wreaths Across America is inappropriately benefiting from the relationship.CharityWatch says the wreath charity and Worcester Wreath Co. may have too cozy a relationship – one that is hard to separate financially.The charity was created by Worcester Wreath to decorate graves in Arlington National Cemetery each year during Christmas.But the group that investigates charities for questionable behavior says it is looking into whether an inappropriately large amount of money is being transferred from the charity to the wreath company.“The structure of this charity is highly unusual, especially at…

A portrait of embattled former U.S. Senate Leader George Mitchell has been stripped from the Maine State House, a move that the state’s top investigative journalist calls possibly Mitchell’s ultimate indignity.Maine legislative officials have been under pressure to take the Democrat ex-leader’s portrait down from the wall where it has hung for 14 years.The Maine House GOP shared video showing the portrait being removed Friday afternoon.The portrait’s removal comes just three weeks after Mitchell resigned as chairman of the Mitchell Institute following the recent unsealing of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-abuse case.“This might be the harshest consequence he…

When Democrat Troy Jackson and Republican Bobby Charles threw personal insults at each other during a recent debate, it was just too rough for the dainty Portland Press Herald.The paper’s political columnist reports that the debate’s mudslinging tone failed to uphold Maine’s “national reputation for robust, elevated state politics.”Steve Collins went even further, fawning over Angus King for having waged gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns “that honored the state’s traditions and decency.”That’s absolutely laughable.Angus has a record of just the opposite. You can look it up, as Yogi Berra would say.King is noted for having called gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Joe…

A year after Maine’s top license-plate boss emerged politically wounded from a scandal over faulty tags, a new chapter of Plategate is emerging.Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is now recommending to the legislature that Maine stop making its own plates altogether.After Bellows hired a Canadian company last year to help with a new plate issue, the result became a political nightmare.The plates feature an image of Maine’s iconic pine tree but the poor tree was misaligned on many of the finished products.Bellows got a lot of negative publicity over the misplaced tree – not helpful as she geared up for…

The Boston Globe columnist who previously was caught lying about being at the scene of a downtown bombing is now trying to make up for lost time on his latest gaffe.Gaffe is actually too generous a description of Kevin Cullen’s most recent work of literature.Cullen, who wrote sympathetically last week about a white Irish guy who was being deported as an illegal immigrant, faced a firestorm once a Boston media watchdog learned about the suspect’s alleged criminal record.Now Cullen is trying to paper over his malaprops with a new column blaming “leaks” for exposing the truth about the detainee. He…

Syracuse University College of Law has commissioned an official portrait of its most famous cheater.Not only will Joe Biden have his portrait hung in the place where he got caught plagiarizing as a freshman law student.But he’s been invited for the portrait’s official unveiling April 14, the school has announced.“President Biden has never forgotten where his legal career began, and we have never forgotten him,” College of Law Dean Terence Lau said in a press release that must have been conceived by Saturday Night Live’s comedy writers. It gets even more bizarre.“His portrait in Dineen Hall will remind every student…

A technical glitch at Maine’s largest paper was only supposed to be a temporary thing.But it appears the highest-paid journalistic Geek squad in Maine can’t figure out the problem.“Secret insider information,” the paper’s editor posted February 27 on the home page. “We’re tinkering with the website, and for the next couple of days, the paywall is completely shut off. Read all the things for free.”“Secret insider information.”Haha.The real question is doesn’t the multi-millon-dollar National Trust for Local News have the wherewithal to fix a website?Asking for a friend.

Former twice-failed gubernatorial candidate and convicted sex offender Eliot Cutler is denying the latest charge of violating probation. Cutler, 79, appeared in court this week facing police claims that he failed to receive the sexual-addiction treatment that was part of his conviction plea deal.The disbarred lawyer was convicted of possessing child porn in 2023 and served eight months in jail before being released early for “good behavior.”He was arrested again this month for allegedly violating conditions of his release. Several adult pornographic DVDs and a DVD player were allegedly found in Cutler’s room after a search in South Portland.Cutler allegedly…

Democrat Gov. Janet Mills may be unwittingly bringing attention to the fact she’s an antique compared to her young opponent.“Folks, I’m the only Maine Democrat to win a statewide election in the last 20 years,” Mills said Thursday in a campaign-donation request as reported by BiddefordBuzz.com.By claiming she’s been in public office as long as she has, Mills, 78, merely advertises Platner’s theme – that he’s a fresh new start.Platner, 41, who polls show is far ahead of Mills in the Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate, has made clear in his campaign that he believes it’s time for a…

When President Trump got Democrats applauding for a proposal to prohibit federal lawmakers from buying and selling stock, one member of that party was conspicuously missing from the State of the Union address. Chellie Pingree of Maine.Pingree, the alleged congresswoman from Maine’s southern, most-liberal district, boycotted the speech Tuesday and perhaps now we know why.Trump urged lawmakers to “pass the stop-insider-trading act without delay.”Leading Democrats even stood and applauded, including senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Chris Coons of Delaware.But Pingree was missing, attending her own “state of the union” celebration.Maybe she was also checking her stock portfolio.The legislation Trump…

The alleged “white supremacy” Zohran Mamdani was railing against while attending Bowdoin College was nothing compared to the whiteout he’s now up against in New York City.In his first political firestorm as the first Muslim mayor of the nation’s largest city, Mamdani is being criticized for failing to support cops injured this week in a snowball attack.NYPD had responded to a snowball fight in a city park that had allegedly gotten out of hand.But when the snowballers saw the word POLICE on officers’ uniforms, they began pelting them with chunks of ice, injuring two cops.In fact, some of the snowballing…

A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, authorities said.Gerald Dorgan, who had been in critical condition, has died from his injuries, according to the Associated Press.Dorgan’s daughter, Rhonda Dorgan, and grandson, Aidan Dorgan, were also killed in the shooting.Police identified the shooter as Robert Dorgan, 56, who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Dorgan, who had had a sex-change operation, also went by the names Roberta Esposito and Roberta Dorgano. Robert Dorgan’s ex-wife was Rhonda Dorgan…

Let’s hear it for Maine blueberries – you know, the ones that don’t get “recalled.”Four states are facing a serious recall of blueberries produced not in the wild barrens of the Pine Tree State but in Oregon.Maybe next time they’ll get Wyman’s on the phone and order from Maine’s finest.Just a suggestion…The Oregon-produced berries were recalled in Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin, as well as in Canada.Nearly 60,000 pounds were recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially life-threatening food-borne disease that can cause serious adverse health effects.The FDA characterized the recall as a Class 1, its highest,…

Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell has gone from being a metaphorical international peace-making God to his word having no credibility. The Democrat from Maine allegedly having had sex with a 17-year-old girl at pedo Jeffrey Epstein’s request was enough to erase Mitchell from his historic reputation helping bring peace to Northern Ireland.But as bad if not worse, people don’t believe him when he says he didn’t. For George Mitchell, that’s really the tragedy – that his word is no longer reliable. Even his own Maine institute doesn’t believe him. Not even necessarily because he allegedly had sex with a child…

A new video promo of the upcoming Charlie Kirk documentary “Bride of Charlie” has ignited a firestorm of controversy.Firebrand podcaster Candace Owens released the trailer Tuesday of her alleged documentary into Kirk’s savage killing.Owens has been accused of suggesting that Kirk’s widow may have had a hand in his September murder so that she could take over Turning Point USA, his organization.Judging from the trailer, critics believe Owens is once again stoking conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk’s assassination, including whether Erika Kirk had something to do with it.“Owens uses dramatic clips from news coverage of the shooting, leaked audio from TPUSA…

Breeze Airways will kick off a new service between the Akron-Canton, Ohio Airport and Portland, Maine, this summer.At the same time, the carrier is discontinuing service from Akron-Canton to Los Angeles, deeming it too costly.Portland will be the carrier’s 16th destination from Akron-Canton, according to Cleveland.com.Flights to Portland will run Thursdays and Sundays starting July 2. Eastbound flights will leave Akron-Canton at 8:18 p.m., landing in Portland at 10:09 p.m. Return flights will leave Portland at 7 a.m., arriving at Akron-Canton at 9:01 a.m.The seasonal route is expected to run through late October.No other airline currently flies from northeast Ohio…

As if the nation’s top defense official doesn’t have enough on his plate…Pete Hegseth told reporters he just learned about a site on “X” that monitors pizza orders coming from the Pentagon.The originator of the “Pentagon Pizza Report” determined that he could figure out whether there was a major military movement being planned depending on how many pizzas were being ordered in the vicinity of the nation’s defense headquarters.“Various pizzerias nearby the Pentagon are reporting above average traffic,” the site – which has 376,000 followers – reported Tuesday night. It also shows bar graphs indicating the rate of business at…

If you plan a seminar featuring a banished anti-Israeli speaker and it gets cancelled, you apparently then need to come up with a quick new excuse for hating Jews.Enter the anemic Portland Press Herald, which is now quoting an organizer for the doomed pro-Palestinian confab as complaining that “conservatives” are at fault for being the skunk at the garden party.“Organizers said in a statement Tuesday the cancellation was the product of an ‘outside pressure campaign’ after the conference was written about in several Jewish and Israeli news outlets, and the right-wing publication The Maine Wire,” according to Maine’s newspaper of…

Maine’s precarious bridges are only getting worse – and are now among the most vulnerable nationwide.That’s according to a new national analysis of the condition of the country’s highway spans.“Maine and Wyoming were the only states to have an increase in the number of poorly rated bridges,” says a new survey.The Pine Tree State in fact rates No. 1 nationally in failing to maintain bridge upkeep.Maine, with 2,542 bridges, has the fourth-highest ranking nationwide of bridges in bad condition – 392 of the 2,542.The shocking bridge report is consistent with a national survey last year showing Maine has the worst…

Angus King claims his conscience is forcing him to boycott President Trump’s State Of The Union Speech.That would be the same Angus who last year said America’s only Mideast ally no longer deserves foreign aid from the U.S.Apparently the so-called “independent” claims that label only when he’s running for election so he can avoid Democrat primary opponents.He first did it when he ran in 1994 for governor and then when he ran in 2012 for the Senate.King in that Senate election declared as “hogwash” allegations by some Republicans that he had cut a deal with Democrats to keep Democrat U.S.…

A man with a telltale style of speaking, identifying himself as John Barron, ripped the Supreme Court and congressional Democrats to shreds in a call to a live C-SPAN show.But once Greta Brawner, the Washington Journal program host on the televised call-in C-SPAN program, seemed to recognize the caller’s voice, she looked like she wasn’t sure what she should do.As Brawner looked into the camera on the live call-in show, she appeared stunned, speechless.If it were actually President Trump on the line – C-SPAN later denied it was – it wouldn’t be the first time he has pulled such a…

Actor Patrick Dempsey, the Lewiston-born heartthrob alum of Grey’s Anatomy, is a revisionist when it comes to fondly remembering his late fellow actor Eric Dane.That according to an extra who worked on the Grey’s Anatomy set with both actors.Maine-born Dempsey, 60, was just quoted by the New York Post remembering Dane, 53, as the “funniest man” and “such a joy to work with.”“I just want to remember him in that spirit because any time he was on the Grey’s Anatomy set, he brought so much fun to it,” Dempsey said.“We hit it off because there was never really any competition,”…

If Maine legislators are really interested in fixing the nightmare known as the state Office of Child and Family Services, they need to talk to Sabrina Rose.Rose, who lives in Presque Isle, has written and published a new book about how she believes the state’s foster system failed her and others.The state “removed me from my mother’s care and placed me with strangers, promised me that life would turn out better that way.“But I still grew up to be an addict.”The publication of Rose’s book comes amid an effort by state Sen. Jeff Timberlake, R-Androscoggin, to investigate the state’s child-services…

A disgraced former Waldoboro state lawmaker forced out of office three years ago for forging signatures is taking a second bite at the political apple.Clint Collamore, running again for state office, has created a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a political comeback.GoFundMe is traditionally used by people who are legitimately hard up on their luck, such as family tragedies.Callamore, campaigning as an “independent “ for the state house seat from District 45, says on his GoFundMe site that “the funds raised through this campaign will go directly toward community outreach, purchasing signs and print ads, hosting community events, sending…

When students walked out of Maine schools recently, allegedly protesting immigration enforcement, they did so with complete impunity. But when the same thing happened in Virginia last week, school officials suspended more than 300 kids. In the Prince William County protest, some kids walked more than two miles to a nearby shopping center.School officials confirmed 303 students were suspended for leaving school grounds without permission.Compare that punitive action to Camden, Maine where a recent obscenity-laced ice protest prompted administrators to do nothing more than inform students of the “expectation that they be respectful and peaceful during their protest.”In Maine the…

If public art is by design supposed to trigger debate, then a proposed Brunswick sculpture has accomplished its purpose.Social media is being flooded with critics of a public-art “installation” in Brunswick slated to mark the location of the old Frank J. Wood Bridge.The “Bridge Remembrance Project,” will use steel beams salvaged from Wood bridge since it was replaced with a new span across the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham.Brunswick Public Art called for artists to submit their ideas for a new $300,000 privately-funded sculpture.Laura Haddad, a Bowdoin College grad, won the design contest. But it may be a pyrrhic…

A Boston media watchdog is raising the possibility that controversial Globe columnist Kevin Cullen is somehow on an extended holiday.“Has the infamous Kevin Cullen gone on another ‘quiet period?’ Boston Radio Watch asked on “X,” the social media platform. “Ten days without a column in the Boston Globe.”Cullen, whose column previously went dark after he fabricated claims he witnessed the 2018 Boston Marathon bombing, most recently wrote a questionable piece blasting Trump for deporting a white Irish guy.When the deportee’s background came under fire, Cullen allegedly went “missing” from the pages of beantown’s biggest liberal rag. if Colin is indeed…

A toddler who recently died in northern Maine might be alive but for possible government negligence, a veteran Republican state lawmaker says.Sen. Jeff Timberlake of Androscoggin County is calling on the legislative Government Oversight Committee to investigate.In a letter to fellow legislators, Timberlake is seeking to scrutinize the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.He cites a number of cases needing legislative oversight, most notably the death of a 1-year-old Milford girl.Eleanora Ray McLaughlin died in Milford late last year while in the alleged care of an adult male.The little girl was living in a “home that reportedly had no…

Team USA Hockey – again with a former Maine hockey player on roster – has captured an Olympic Gold Medal.Goalie Jeremy Swayman played three seasons (2017-20) with the University of Maine Black Bears.Not since USA hockey last won gold in 1980, when the “Miracle on Ice” team did it with the help of another Maine guy, has American puck fever peaked to this level. The captain of the famous 1980 team was Mike Eruzione, who previously had played hockey for Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Maine. And now the Maine connection scores again!“It was a game for the ages that…

A public outcry over an anti-Semitic speaker has killed a University of Southern Maine conference that was to feature a U.N. adviser who has been highly critical of Israel, according to a Jewish news outlet.The cancellation was reported by Jewish News Syndicate, which calls itself “the fastest-growing news agency covering Israel and the Jewish world.”The seminar, which was slated for February 28th, had Francesca Albanese on the guest list. She has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for her anti-semitic rhetoric.“The school told Jewish News Syndicate that it had ‘terminated the agreement for the use of USM facilities for the…

Janet Mills got an assist Friday from the newspaper she lied to about whether she would meet with Trump.The Portland Press Herald was so gleeful about being able to interview the flip-flopping Democrat governor it glossed right over this gem:“Chaos comes from a chaotic administration which can’t make up its mind whether it wants to hear from Democratic governors,” Mills said.Did you catch that?“Can’t make up its mind.” – Janet MillsThat would be the same Janet Mills who put her foot down insisting maybe she would then would not then would attend a White House governor’s meeting with President Trump.…

The state’s top Catholic is calling for a “commitment to prayer” amid a continually unfolding sexual-abuse controversy.“If we as a diocese truly repent, truly believe, truly turn to the Father, then something happens,” Bishop James Ruggieri said. “Our parishes will become even more alive. Our charity will become more credible. Our witness becomes even more compelling. And our unity becomes visible.”But the leading Maine advocates for victims of priestly sexual abuse are calling Ruggieri out, claiming his words fall short. Voice Of The Faithful In Maine see the bishop’s Ash Wednesday homily’s excerpt calling for “forgiveness to replace resentment” as…

A member of the broadening field of Democrats who think they can be the state’s next governor actually thinks Donald Trump is our problem? Nirav Shah issued a campaign primer on what an alleged problem the president is, according to the website BiddefordBuzz.com.Shah apparently missed the part of the movie where he is the one we need protection from. “There has never been a candidate for Maine governor who has proven by their actions to be more utterly unqualified for the job more than Nirav Shah,” historian and former Maine Department of Education Commissioner Tom Desjardin said.Desjardin analyzed Shag’s candidacy…

When U.S. Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree needed to finger ICE, she apparently couldn’t do it in Maine.Funny how a congresswoman supposedly representing a Maine district has to leave the state to do her job.Maybe she thinks Maine is still a part of Massachusetts.Gotta be. But then again it’s been 206 years since Maine broke away from Massachusetts to become the 23rd U.S. state. Chellie held a “news conference” Friday to publicize her investigation of federal-immigration holding centers.Unfortunately the Democrat paper that she relies on for her publicity never asked her why she couldn’t do her work in Maine instead of…

A pugged-up sewer that virtually destroyed an elderly Saco woman’s home wasn’t her fault.But city officials stuck her with a bill of nearly $30,000 to clean up the mess in the wake of the sewer backup.The sad story of Elsie Boudreau’s heartache at the hands of city government was unearthed by CBS News 13 investigative team.Boudreau told the news outlet she’s still trying to comprehend the mess she walked into late last year.Raw sewage had backed up into the basement of her home.Everything in her finished basement, from carpeting and paneling to furniture and family keepsakes, had to be torn…

U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is receiving some unsolicited advice from a member of his own party – the mayor of Portland.Mark Dion, during an appearance on Maine Wire TV, advised Platner to prove how is going to translate his rhetoric into governing.“I get the speech but what happens after that?” Dion asked. “You know, how do you put together a governing package? I mean clearly he demonstrated a certain style of campaigning and it seems to resonate with a body of Mainers but I want to know about governing. “I don’t need to hear the commercial. I want to…

The top elected official in Maine’s largest city called on the governor of his own party – who badly defeated him eight years ago – to stop criticizing federal immigration-enforcement police. Portland Mayor Mark Dion, appearing on Maine Wire TV, criticized Gov. Janet Mills for hyping up the politically-popular public rage against ICE officials in his democrat-socialist city.“I don’t think it’s helpful,” Dion told Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson. “The job of a political leader is to keep everyone’s tempers down.” In trying to silence the governor’s political rhetoric Dion was addressing a one-time political opponent. Mills trounced the-then state…

A Vermont woman who placed an online Burger King order Thursday night realized too late she had actually ordered it from a Burger King in Maine.So once she noticed her whopper, the woman, living in Burlington, Vermont, posted on a Facebook page “Just made a mistake and ordered bk in Bangor, Maine if anyone wants to pick it up.”Burlington is 294 miles from Bangor so she figured the food would be cold by the time she got there LOL. Once she offered it to anybody in Bangor who wanted it a second Facebook poster stepped in and helped out by…

The famous major-league star ballplayer Darryl Strawberry once said all addictions are the same.Strawberry actually wasn’t so prescient because he didn’t realize it until it was too late.He was self-admittedly addicted to drugs, sex – you name it, problems that he didn’t realize he had until he already had wasted many years of his promising life.When Strawberry finally looked himself in the mirror and decided it was time to grow up, he came to understand the bane of addiction. It is, he said, something that runs across all strata of the human condition. Throw shopping addiction into the mix for…

Amy McCrea has seen crime from both sides, first as a patrol officer and now as a victim-witness advocate.Bangor Police honored McCrea with a service award Wednesday for her 10 years of work helping crime victims. “It’s a sad fact that crime happens all too often. For many people, being the victim of a crime can mean having to navigate the unfamiliar world of the criminal justice system,” Bangor Police officials said in announcing the award. “While television shows may give people the sense of how the system works, often reality doesn’t line up. That’s where victim-witness advocates come into…

Three weeks after a Maine fisherman and six of his fellow crew members died when their boat went down, searchers see little hope of salvaging the vessel.The victims of the Lily Jean sinking off Gloucester, Massachusetts included Freeman Short of Presque Isle.Short, 31, a fourth-generation fisherman, was posthumously promoted to staff sergeant in the Maine Army National Guard after the tragic accident.The body of only one of the seven crew members, Aurusio “Gus” Sanfalippo, the captain of the 72-foot vessel, was found at sea. Whether the bodies of the remaining six victims are still with the boat is unknown.Officials announced…

Try as it might, the shallow, journalism-challenged Portland Press Herald just can’t catch a break. Amid its impotent efforts to actually cover news, it’s again outdone even itself in the category of incompetence.The paper published an alleged retrospective after political icon and twice-failed presidential contender Jesse Jackson died this week, recapping his memorable Maine campaign visits.The only problem is that the Jackson campaign appearances the paper mentioned weren’t memorable.They occurred in 1988 in Orono and Portland, when Jackson was running a second time for president. They were unremarkable, forgettable, routine stump speeches.The state’s biggest newspaper also apparently felt a compelling…

Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful Graham Platner lobbed a new volley Wednesday at Republican Sen. Susan Collins, accusing her of being an antique.Platner, 41, whose campaign meme has become his wife’s touting his “great sperm,” is blaming Collins, 73, for lackluster constituent service.“The last time Susan Collins held a public town hall, computers were still running Windows 95,” the tattoo-chested Graham posted on “X.”But judging from the first posted response oyster-farmer Platner got he may be shooting blanks.“Why on earth would she hold a town hall?” asked a guy on “X” whose handle is “Andy the Builder. “I’ve emailed her several…

Ahttps://share.google/H3svcecgiEsWIKFM1 group of residents in Houlton have finally seen success in their battle to persuade the town to take down dozens of “security” cams.But they remain unconvinced that the secret data collected by the snooping lenses has been disposed of.Houlton officials this week removed nearly 30 cameras as required by council-approved agreement with three area residents, according to TheCounty.me. The three – Mark Lipscombe, Craig Harriman and Patrick Bruce – for two years had tried to obtain information from the town regarding camera use and data storage.They argued that the cameras violated Maine’s landmark 2021 facial surveillance law.“Two years of…

The organizers of an upcoming Palestinian-rights conference either pulled a big boner or are crazy like a fox.The Maine Coalition for Palestine is holding a daylong seminar February 28 featuring an anti-Semitic speaker, Francesca Albanese.Ironically, the conference will be held in a building named for Linda Abromson, who in 1982 was elected as the first female Jewish mayor in Maine’s largest city.Abromson, who died in 2017, was also a Jewish activist, serving on the boards of the Jewish Federation, National Council of Jewish Women and Temple Beth El in Portland.Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, called Israel…

A legal battle is now settled after the Portland International Jetport agreed to pay $125,000 to the city of South Portland.The settlement is over a dispute that ignited last year when the airport cleared land along I-295 as part of a runway expansion, WGME-TV reports.The city of South Portland issued a notice of violation to the jetport and the state’s Catholic diocese over unpermitted clear cutting.Airport officials said they cleared trees from a lot on Dawson Street last year to comply with Federal Aviation Administration clearance guidelines. The lot is part of the Calvary Cemetery and is owned by the…

A second worker has died from injuries suffered in a reported gas incident at Woodland Pulp in Baileyville last month, according to a mill spokesperson.The worker’s identity has not been released though the mill confirmed he was an employee of the facility, WABI-TV reports.The incident previously resulted in the death of Kasie Malcolm, 20, a chemical-engineering student at the University of Maine who had been completing an internship at the facility since June.Federal investigators from the Chemical Safety Board are investigating the fatal chemical release, which occurred on January 27th.The incident may have involved the mixing of concentrated sulfuric acid…

The former Bath Iron Works employee who opened fire on his own family at a Rhode Island hockey game had undergone a sex change.That’s according to the New York Post, which says Robert Dorgan’s wife filed for divorce after he began transitioning to a different gender.Dorgan, who also goes by his new name, Roberta Esposito, allegedly killed his son and his wife at a high school hockey game Monday.Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce in 2020, citing her husband’s unhinged personality and his “gender reassignment surgery,” the Post reports.Police haven’t yet released the victims’ names.But the family confirmed in a GoFundMe…

The Maine Press Association, comprised of liberal passé rags, is doing its best to put lipstick on a pig.The organization has announced an upcoming event called “Local News Day.” Better yet, the celebration is being organized by the scandal-plagued Maine Community Foundation.The excitement is set for April 9.Exciting for purveyors of fake news, that is. “A national effort to celebrate and support local journalism is gaining momentum – and Maine is in,” the MPA emailed members Tuesday. “Local News Day is a chance for newsrooms to invite their communities to show up for local news.”Show up, which is the extent…

Milo Hanson of Saskatchewan remains an untouchable hero in the eyes of Maine deer hunters.Hanson, 81, who died last week, holds the claim to taking down the biggest whitetail buck ever shot in the world. He killed it with a .308 on his farm in Saskatchewan in 1993. It’s a record deer hunters globally can only dream about. When deer hunters speak of records, they use a language foreign to mortals.To wit, Hanson’s record takedown is measured in inches, not pounds.His deer’s antlers, measured by a special (complicated) formula measured 213 5/8 inches “net typical.”Basically that’s a protocol that measures…

A world-renowned filmmaker whose body of work included examining life along the Maine coast has died.Frederick Wiseman, who was 96, was a documentarian, theater director and actor.Wiseman’s work was primarily about exploring life within America’s institutions.“The institution is just an excuse to observe human behavior in somewhat defined conditions,” he told The Associated Press in 2020. “The films are as much about that as they are about institutions.”Wiseman won an honorary Academy Award in 2016 and completed more than 35 documentaries.His legacy includes a four-hour documentary called “Belfast, Maine,” a time capsule of everyday life along the midcoast.The piece about…

Marauding selfish teen brats aka thugs have been walking into a Bangor women’s clothing store and walking out with thousands of dollars of stolen merchandise. So the owner is threatening to create a dressing room “wall of shame” that will feature mugshots of anyone caught stealing from her.Cool Girl Collective calls itself “A Modern-Day Department Store For Cool Girls – The Trendiest Brands At The Best Prices.”But the outlet has been victimized by some pretty uncool, untrendy girls. Ripoff artists would be a more apt description. “After Christmas our store was basically ransacked by teenage girl groups coming in and…

A southern Maine fire department didn’t have to go far to put out the most recent blaze.  While Biddeford firefighters were sleeping, one of them awoke to the smell of smoke shortly after 3 a.m. on February 13. He traced the smoke to a stainless bin containing recently laundered kitchen towels. Fireman put out their own fire with an extinguisher and water from the kitchen sink. Biddeford Fire Chief Larry Best says the blaze caused heavy smoke damage to the main Alfred Street fire station. He said he believes that oils that had accumulated in the rags, despite their having…

If you want a primer on sick celebrity obsession, the case of Nancy Guthrie is a good place to start.The media fixation on the missing mother of NBC-TV darling Savannah Guthrie leaves heartbroken the relatives of thousands of missing people across the country.Just in Maine alone, generations of Maine residents cry themselves to sleep over dozens of their relatives who have been missing for decades and more.The heartache of not knowing, not having a body to bury, strains the bounds of survivors’ lifelong pain.A national database of missing persons shows 154 open cases in Maine, though a State Police classification…

The sinking of the first battle ship ever named for the state of Maine marked a solemn occasion Sunday.February 15, 1898 was the day that the USS Maine went down in Havana Harbor.The disaster contributed to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War two months later.The phrase, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” became a rallying cry for action.Although the Maine explosion was not a direct cause of the war, it served as a catalyst that accelerated the events leading up to it.The 324-foot ship was launched November 18, 1890 from the New York Naval Shipyard.The Maine, sent to Havana…

The commander of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason has been relieved of duty, military officials announced Sunday.They didn’t disclose the reasons for firing Capt. Chavius Lewis as the top officer of the guided-missile destroyer.Lewis, who had led the ship for just 15 months, was canned Friday by Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, head of a carrier strike group, “due to a loss of confidence in Lewis’ ability to command,” according to a Navy press release.The Navy – like the Pentagon’s other military services – often cites “loss of confidence” when relieving leaders of responsibilities without providing a specific explanation.“The Navy…

The leading Democrat in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary temporarily abandoned his plea for campaign contributions to issue a plea to his reproductively-challenged wife. Will you love me forever?At last “check” Graham Platner 3 weeks ago had cut short his stay in the country of Norway to jet back to Maine for an anti-ICE rally.In so doing, Platner put what his wife has called his “great sperm” on ICE to get back to campaigning against Gov. Janet Mills.But we haven’t heard anything since from the sperm king on the progress of the couple’s IVF treatments in Norway.All we get for…

As the purchase by a Colorado-based nonprofit of the Portland Press Herald approaches its three-year anniversary, the bean counters must be in a heavy sweat. If the internet numbers are any indication the Maine daily is in a death spiral. The paper in the last week, for instance, has shown pure stagnation on its Facebook page, an indication of what’s going on with its subscription base. The paper’s Facebook following is stuck at 93,000 but that should be no surprise for a paper devoting more space to high school basketball than to the growing scandals enveloping Maine’s Democrat-led state government.…

When President Trump announced last week he was rolling back greenhouse-gas emission cuts, Janet Mills saw a moment.But the problem with the Democrat governor’s foot-stomping temper tantrum is its all theater, similar to her embarrassing famous White House meltdown over boys in girls sports.Mills is 40 points behind Graham Platner in their U.S. Senate primary race so she needs a good straight man.But Trump won’t work because Janet’s tirade isn’t supported by the facts.Though Trump overturned the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the emissions were already being reduced by competition from natural-gas and other…

A private hospitality guru who has a lucrative contract providing services to national park visitors got an invite five years ago from U.S. Sen Angus King. The Maine “independent” senator and former two-term governor brought Scott Socha, who President Trump has nominated to head the national parks, before his Senate subcommittee on parks in 2021. Socha is president of the parks and resorts and Australia branches of Delaware North, a concessionaire in national parks. He’s under fire from park “conservation” groups that claim he’s going to benefit financially from his new post. Socha, whose appointment requires Senate confirmation, came before…

Maine health care scandal, absentee ballots in an Amazon box, fraud surrounding mass-shooting fund, Chinese pot farms galore, Democrat congresswoman insider trading, fake Somali daycare centers. And what does the lead columnist for Maine’s largest newspaper write about? Abraham Lincoln’s decision to fire his Maine-born vice president. Shouldn’t really be surprised that the Portland Press Herald chooses a 162-year-old story as its marquee piece to bookend Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, and Presidents Day, February 16. But seriously? Writing about Lincoln’s decision to can Hannibal Hamlin as his running mate in 1864 gives new meaning to “old news.” Right up the…

A Maine priest refusing to meet with a group representing sexual-abuse victims has now won the public support of his boss – the state’s top Catholic official. Voice of the Faithful in Maine has been trying to set up a meeting with the Rev. Steven Cartwright of Falmouth. Twice now Cartwright has cancelled scheduled meetings with Paul Kendrick of Freeport and Michael Sweatt of North Yarmouth, founders of the sexual-abuse support group. Kendrick and Sweatt have appealed to the volunteer Parish of the Holy Eucharist Pastoral Council so far unsuccessfully to help set up a meeting. Cartwright “is adding insult…

World-renowned actress Bette Davis wasn’t just Ogunquit, Maine’s first female lifeguard. Davis also acted in several productions at the town’s storied summer theater later in her career. The playhouse that Bette Davis helped build in stature is now gearing up for a huge makeover. The landmark summer theater has stood in southern Maine for nearly a century, featuring such legendary actors as Davis, William Shatner, Steve McQueen and Betty White. Developers came before the Ogunquit Planning Board on Monday to discuss the $62 million project. “Our proposal is total reconstruction of the Ogunquit Playhouse,” Corey Colwell with land planning firm…

A report of a camera allegedly hidden in a bathroom of a Bangor electronics store has customers and employees unnerved. Sgt. Jeremy Brock of Bangor Police confirmed to Q106.5 FM that the department received a complaint Tuesday about a possible camera in a bathroom at Best Buy. No further details were released due to the ongoing investigation, so there’s no confirmation about whether this was a customer bathroom or one used by the employees. The electronics store is located on Bangor Mall Boulevard. It is unlawful in Maine to intentionally install or use a device to view and/or record someone…

Democrat Janet Mills put out a new ad questioning whether Maine’s Republican U.S. senator has “enough courage.” But the real question is whether Gov. Mills realizes she has a senate primary opponent who’s beating her 2:1. The latest Polymarket odds give Democrat Graham Platner 67 percent and Mills 34 percent. Kalshi shows the same problem for Mills – major statistical defeat. So before dreamer Mills even gets to Susan Collins in November, she first needs to dispatch her fellow Democrat. Not “enough courage” to face that reality, apparently. No question five-term Collins has problems – Polymarket and Kalshi both show…

Now that convicted child pornographer Eliot Cutler is facing three alleged probation violations, the prosecutor says Cutler is likely to be put behind bars at least three more years. Hancock/Washington District 7 Attorney Robert Granger, in an exclusive interview with The Maine Wire, said that as part of the original plea agreement, Cutler was required to serve nine months of what would otherwise have been – and still may come to be with his new charges – a full four years behind bars. Granger said a stiff sentence was the least of what the former two-timed failed gubernatorial candidate was…

A rogue Georgetown University researcher is making waves with her suggestion we hit the pause button on vacuuming trash from the ocean. Rebecca Helm, a marine biologist, is among a group of researchers now saying that we should pause all ocean plastic cleanup efforts. The very thought “has left some scientists speechless,” according to Earth.com. “After years of people screaming for more action to rid the seas of plastic, a few voices like Helm’s are now encouraging a more careful approach,” the widely followed website reports. Helm and her (brave) colleagues are contending that the plastic trash seen floating in…

The Republican president brought down by a leftist newspaper once said the only thing worth reading in it was Shirley Povich. Povich, born in Bar Harbor, Maine, was the legendary sports writer of The Washington Post. Now that the paper has abolished its sports coverage as part of a large swath of layoffs, the few Republicans who once secretly scanned its pages won’t have much reason to do so. Povich’s column established the paper’s reputation as a must-read for sports fans, even, yes, Republicans. He spent his entire career 1923 – 1988 with The Washington Post. Povich’s parents were Jewish…

National conservative TV and radio host Wayne Allyn Root just had to get that off his chest. “Roger Goodell Is A Pathetic, Woke, Liberal Schmuck” – Wayne Allyn Root Root, who grew up with Goodell, isn’t surprised his boyhood chum from a different mum rubs elbows with the rich liberal elites in Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Maine, in his $12.8 million “beach house.” The two, Goodell and Root, grew up in Bronxville, New York. But the differences stop there. Goodell went to an all-white school while Root went to a predominantly black school. “He’s an arrogant, entitled, elitist, know-it-all, who had…

The southern Maine sheriff who went from loving federal-ICE inmates to blasting the federal agency that helped pay his bills will cost county taxpayers big time. Literally if not also politically. After Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce accused federal immigration authorities of “bush-league” tactics, they decided to pull all of their detained arrestees out of Joyce’s jail. Or, more accurately, the county’s taxpayer-financed jail. To wit, the loss of 50 ICE detainees will cost the 315,000 taxpayers in Maine’s most-populous county $2.7 million a year. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security was paying the county $150 a day to house…

A two-time failed Maine gubernatorial candidate and child-porno fiend has been arrested for violating his probation for the third time. Disbarred lawyer Eliot Cutler, 79, a convicted child pornographer, was nabbed Monday at a South Portland hotel, authorities said. Maine State Police say their Special Victim’s Unit encountered Cutler at the hotel and found that he was violating his bail conditions. He was taken to Cumberland County Jail where he was being held on a probation hold. Cutler has been accused of violating probation multiple times after he was convicted of possessing child pornography in 2023. In May 2023, Cutler…

The Celtics announced Monday that star forward Jayson Tatum was being assigned to the Maine Celtics for light duty. The Maine affiliate is known as the G League, a minor-league team where Celtic hopefuls hone their b-ball skills for what they hope will be a ticket to the big leagues. Tatum was to be recalled to the NBA club after a practice session with the Maine affiliate. Tatum, 27, suffered a torn achilles tendon in May during the Eastern Conference semifinals against the New York Knicks.