By now most Mainers have heard about the scandal surrounding Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, the top lawmaker in Maine…
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The Daily Caller News Foundation – Frank Lasee on September 26, 2023 National Lobster Day is a good time to…
Sam Patten had to survive getting nearly stabbed to death, twice, in order to live long enough to write the…
Gov. Janet Mills published the following radio address on Wednesday, finally weighing in decisively against a campaign by the Maine…
Mainers learned this week that left-wing mega donor Johann Georg Wyss, known as Hansjörg Wyss, bankrolled a national nonprofit’s purchase…
“How does a boy become a man?” Out of the blue, that question was put to my middle-aged son by…
Ignoring the Constitution is Becoming an American Pastime In an effort to address the economically crippling labor shortage in New…
You know you’ve struck a raw nerve when the majority party at the State House swamp blasts out a fundraising…
It was a perfect September setting at Gillette Stadium on Sunday for Patriot football: a misty overcast, intense humidity, and…
Peter Slovinsky is a marine geologist for the Maine Geological Survey. This past week he made the Maine media aware…
The COVID-19 authoritarians are on the march. Hospitals from California to Massachusetts are bringing back mask mandates. NPR is openly…
Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) has remained silent this week in the face of mortgage records, insurance records, and…
A top official in the Mills Administration told state employees at the Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Wednesday…
If you’re looking for a funny and educational review of how disastrous Marxist-inspired communism has been for mankind, you can…
Is Maine at risk of being transformed into a bastion for white-supremacist neo-Nazi deadbeats such as the loser who claims…
Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, a Democrat, agreed in a federally insured mortgage contract to make an Augusta house his…
Only eight U.S. states can boast that all-electric vehicles exceed 1 percent of all vehicles registered there. None are greater…
Maine’s liberals spent Friday bellyaching online because U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2), a Democrat, had the audacity to oppose President…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
Lawrence Lockman of Bradley served four terms in the Maine House of Representatives, from 2012 to 2020. He is co-founder…
Another week, another boondoggle from the Mills Administration on energy. Now, Mills wants to shift our electricity production from cheaper…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order Wednesday intended to establish a new migrant resettlement office, telling the Portland…
Several of Maine’s largest newspapers – formerly owned by Masthead Media Company – will now fall under the ownership of…
The following is an op-ed submission from Joel Stetkis, Chairman of the Maine Republican Party: Growing up here in Maine,…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
If every source of CO2 in the state ceased tomorrow—if we permanently turned off every light, furnace, vehicle, or other…
Mainstream media outlets reported Thursday on a lawsuit claiming that two Maine police officers wrongfully arrested a left-wing political protester…
This opinion piece was originally published on July 5, 2023 in the Washington Times. The insane election. That’s how I…
Thursday night, in one of the last floor speeches of the year, Sen. Cameron Reny (D-Lincoln) became the first supporter…
With each passing day, Maine sinks deeper and deeper into the quicksand of a potentially irreversible demographic, economic, cultural, and…
Over the past week, statements by two elected officials in Maine told a sad tale about the lack of seriousness…
The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that colleges and universities cannot make admissions decisions on the basis of race,…
The debate over Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill was one of the most controversial of the session, but it…
Joshua D. Filler is an attorney living in Maine. He served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the Mayor of…
Two stories regarding Maine’s second most powerful legislator, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), have remained largely untouched by the…
Maine’s top newspapers have refused to publish a pro-life op-ed written by the long-time former Executive Director of Maine’s State…
The following is an opinion editorial written by Myra Broadway of Gardiner. Originally submitted to the Bangor Daily News and…
Earlier this year, Merrick Garland, America’s attorney general, went to the extraordinary length of actually denying that there exist two…
The upcoming November referenda authorizing $13.5 billion in borrowing charged to the electricity consumer’s credit card and cosigned by Maine…
Maine Secretary of State Shanna Bellows (D) is going head-to-head with No Labels, the political third party that has pledged…
I love living in Portland, but I’m concerned with how much influence self-avowed socialists have over its future. The rent…
As conservatives across the country question why large multinational corporations and brands appear to be lurching left, it’s worth recalling…
You can almost imagine one of Tony Soprano’s capos showing up representing the school board at the annual town meeting…
The Press Herald has yet again been duped into quoting a left-wing astroturf group that purports to represent Maine small…
The following is a letter to the editor: During my 33 years specializing in Pediatric care my first motto was…
Maine’s K-12 Transgender Express encountered a speed bump last week just north of Bangor, jarring one of the wheels loose.…
On Saturday the Bangor Daily News published an article from opinion contributor and former Washington Post reporter Gordon Weil in…
The editorial writers for the Portland Press Herald have never been known for having original ideas or coherent policy recommendations.…
Riding what they believe is a surge of enthusiasm in favor of permissive abortion laws, Maine Democrats are moving to…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show this morning to discuss the Maine Wire’s reporting on…
LD 1735 is a proposed piece of legislation that has garnered national attention for its potential to allow the state…
If you’re on this media platform reading this piece of commentary, my guess is that you’re just as fed up…
The Maine Wire reported Friday about the $1.26 million settlement involving Dr. Shannon Carr, a Maine OB/GYN tapped by Gov.…
Barely half of Americans believe our country’s intelligence agencies do a good job safeguarding citizens’ privacy and civil liberties, a…
Taxation without representation! This was the most often remembered outcry in the years leading up to the outbreak of war…
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, joins Maine Wire TV to discuss Maine’s ongoing…
The following is a commentary submission from Ray Thombs, a small businessman from Union. He is a member of Speak…
On Tuesday, we reported on the allegation that Yarmouth 5th graders had engaged in one of the gravest possible sins in modern…
The following post by Forrest Robinson has been republished in part with the permission of the author and IM–1776. To…
WGAN commentator and MSAD 75 School Board Member Eric Lusk joins Maine Wire TV to provide an inside perspective on…
Recent headlines show that another nursing home has closed, the state is on its way to setting its fifth straight…
Alvin Lui, President of Courage is a Habit, joins Maine Wire TV to talk about a proposed rule from the…
State Sen. Erica Brakey (R-Androscoggin) joins Maine Wire TV to talk about his 2018 campaign against U.S. Sen. Angus King…
Dr. Meryl Nass joins Maine Wire TV to tell the story of her fight against the Mills Administration, the medical-political…
Rick Savage, the former owner of Sunday River Brewing Company, joins Maine Wire TV to talk about his experience running…
Does Maine need more welfare? Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) seems to think so. Last week, the Congresswoman shared a clip…
For nearly seven years now, advocates and opponents have struggled in legal and political venues over a corridor of land…
On Thursday evening Elon Musk’s Twitter went on a rampage of sorts, taking away the last vestige of Old Twitter:…
The following is a speech given by Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) for Maine Taxpayers United. It is republished here with…
The issue of the state legislatures holding an Article V convention to propose amendments has divided people that typically agree…
In 1958, The U.S. Supreme Court issued one of the most important rulings in its history. By throwing out the…
A team of researchers investigating anti-white sentiments set out to answer an interesting question: How would people react if we…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has thrown the full weight of her office behind the effort to make Maine’s abortion laws…
In the inaugural episode of Maine Wire TV, Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson interviews Amber Lavigne, the mother of a 13-year-old girl…
“A school counselor or school social worker may not be required to divulge or release information gathered during a counseling…
Most Mainers have probably never heard of Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss. The dark money groups influencing Maine politics would probably…
With the indictment of former President Donald Trump by Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg, the United States has crossed…
It’s no secret that Reade Brower’s MaineToday Media empire – five daily newspapers and 25 weeklies across the state –…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, with an assist from Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross, has…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s Ric Tyler on Wednesday morning to cover a host of topics in Maine…
On September 9, 2022, six months ago and one year after Gov. Janet Mills announced the nation’s harshest COVID-19 vaccine…
Maine’s immigration crisis is only getting worse. On Friday, news broke that the city of Portland will once again open…
The Nazis burned books. You might have heard those words uttered at a school board meeting recently. Or perhaps they…
“We need to tax the wealthy more. We need to increase taxes on those wealthy individuals and those wealthy and profitable…
It’s unfortunate that Republican legislators at the Statehouse in Augusta have thrown in the towel and joined with left-wing, open-borders…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined PJ Media’s Megan Fox this week to discuss Maine’s education system and recent Maine…
A most basic right, that of fair and honest elections, is the cornerstone of our representative form of government. A…
If there was a trap set for you, would you want to know how to identify it? Homeschoolers and those…
This weekend marked the twentieth anniversary of America’s invasion of Iraq, and for those of us who spent time in…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was in Congress Thursday to provide information regarding the extraordinary decision to rescue depositors at the…
From 1984 to 2022, Maine’s legislature passed more than 40 resolutions featuring foreign nations. Ireland, Israel, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Greece,…
In the news last week, President Joe Biden said he wants to increase taxes to “help save Medicare.” Maine Democrats…
If you believe everything you read, see or hear in the mainstream media today, you could be forgiven for thinking…
The Maine Wire has obtained a new letter Maine Sen. Angus King is sending to constituents to explain why he…
The recent announcement by Maine’s second largest union, MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, that it has filed a prohibited practices complaint with…
Have you noticed the narrative around “disinformation” changing recently? In his new, self-styled outlet Racket News, Twitter Files journalist Matt…
Curse or proverb? That is the question often attached to an ancient Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times.”…
From 2018 to the present, a powerful, out-of-state group played a huge role in influencing Maine elections using a kind…
You can put away your tin-foil hat now, the public service announcement advised. Those things we told you were ‘conspiracy…
The outcry over Maine Sen. Angus King’s scheme to censor anyone on social media who is critical of him is…