The state of Maine is staring down a $450 million “structural deficit” for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. “Structural deficit” is…
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President-elect Donald Trump announced a new plan during a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico…
As many as 40 percent of the noncitizens present in Maine, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and those…
Maine has been treated to a near non-stop barrage of demands that we acquiesce to the lucrative demands of the…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has issued an executive order to establish a commission that will study what she called…
The CEO of the nonprofit group that owns most of Maine’s newspapers received a massive pay increase for 2023, a…
On Jan. 1, working Mainers will ring in the new year with an unwelcome gift from State House Democrats: the…
While the massive MAGA wave that swept the country on November 5th didn’t exactly wash over Maine, it certainly did…
Today, the word “nuclear” often sparks fear, with talk of nuclear weapons dominating headlines. This fear is understandable but misplaced…
Despite the hysteria over rising sea levels, allegedly caused by anthropogenic global warming, a comparison of satellite imagery of some…
Black Friday is typically a day when normal people relax with family and watch as hordes of materialistic zombies storm…
Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) has for the first time released documents related to its investigations into marijuana operators…
As Maine Wire reporter Edward Tomic detailed on Friday, agents from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)…
Editor’s Note: The endorsement covered below reflects the opinion of the Maine Republican Party and not the Senate Republican or…
A contingent of Maine State Representatives, accompanied by Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols, recently visited the Northern Border Port of…
Maine Wire readers and talk radio listeners this week may have followed the imbroglio between me and the Secretary of…
It’s been a while since Chris Busby libelously claimed that I’m a paid subscriber to The Bollard newsletter in an…
In December 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the unilateral decision to remove Republican President-elect Donald Trump from…
Ranked Choice Voting was sold to Maine voters as a silver bullet that would clean up Maine politics, eliminate spoiler…
Editor’s Note: The first version of this story misinterpreted the “blank” vote totals as ballots that had been cast blank…
In the spirit of transparency, here are the emails exchanged with the Boston Globe reporter who covered the Maine Wire’s…
The Boston Globe on Monday published a front-page story featuring the Maine Wire’s investigative report which found noncitizens are registered…
Conflict of Interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or…
On Friday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey sent a second letter to the Maine Wire reiterating Maine Democratic leaders’ request…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined the Maine Policy Institute’s Pine Tree Pulse Podcast on Friday to explain how we…
The following article was prepared by the Maine Issues & Action PAC, a political advocacy committee formed by Rep. Mike…
I have always put people over politics. And I’m writing today because I know that Austin Theriault will do the…
A Democratic State Representative published an op-ed bragging about the 2023-2024, Democrat-led state spending spree just hours before the Mills…
The following article was prepared by the Maine Issues & Action PAC, a political advocacy committee formed by Rep. Mike…
The Bollard, a monthly newspaper published in Portland, has dubbed attempted murderer Leo R. Hylton, 34, Maine’s “foremost justice advocate”…
The Mills Administration has taken the unusual step of channeling $117,300 in taxpayer dollars to the Maine Trust for Local…
Editor’s Note: We’re aware of the moral hazard inherent in publishing a positive review of a documentary produced by the…
It happened again. For the second time in two months a would-be assassin took aim from an unprotected perimeter ready…
Free speech isn’t always so free on college campuses, according to a recent ranking done by College Pulse and the…
Daily Wire podcaster and best-selling children’s book author Matt Walsh has returned to theaters with a new film, Am I…
The University of Maine can couch their decision to rescind the sale of the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast…
If you woke up on Monday and found the internet filled with memes of former President Donald Trump rescuing kittens…
Republicans have revealed their last-ditch effort to ensure election integrity before former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris…
During the Biden-Harris administration’s Labor Day weekend celebrations, 23-year-old American-Israeli dual citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists after…
The Bangor Daily News, the media arm of marketing firm Bangor Publishing Company, on Tuesday published its latest report into…
The new leader of the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris, has unveiled a slate of economic proposals that would…
I come bearing both good news and bad news from the frontlines of Maine’s culture wars. First the bad news.…
It was a chart showing the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous mass illegal migration numbers that helped save Donald Trump’s life from…
In selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – a man with even less foreign policy experience than herself if that is…
Established in the early 1980s, Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) programs have now become a common fixture nationwide. Despite…
The latest case of fighting racism with racism comes with an added dash of climate change hysteria-induced mental illness, courtesy…
As the girls rounded the corner into the last stretch before the finish line, I couldn’t help myself: “Go, girls,…
Once upon a time, a newspaper editorial was a beacon of thought, a voice that carried weight and commanded respect.…
President Joe Biden is out of the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination—whether he knows it or not—and already his lean and…
Following his abysmal performance in the first presidential debate and an embarrassing press conference where he called Kamala Harris “Vice…
On July 13, 2024, the 45th President of the United States and the same man likely to become the 47th president came…
In addition to lying on the presidential debate stage last week that no American troops had died under his watch…
An economist from the Arabella Advisers-backed Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) has admitted that illegal aliens entering the U.S.…
Since the 1990s, low-income and Medicare patients have depended on the 340B program to pay for drugs and medications at discounted…
President Joe Biden should not, cannot, — must not! — step aside for some other candidate to serve as the…
Last year, LD 1895 “An Act Regarding the Procurement of Energy from Offshore Wind Resources” passed, which got the ball…
Crony capitalism — driven entirely by Maine Democrats and far-left ideological extremists — has corrupted Maine’s energy market, and the…
The United States is in the middle of a genuine open-borders crisis that is leading us, at best, to the…
Controversy at the United States Supreme Court usually takes the form of high-profile cases that could reshape federal law. These…
The Bangor Daily News, a once-vital news source for northern Maine that has transmogrified into a left-wing taxpayer-subsidized propaganda rag,…
Editor’s Note: The group quota regime is a revolutionary threat which aims to overthrow the political order of the United…
Maine is emblematic of a phenomenon occurring nationwide. States controlled by one-party Democrat governments, intent on pushing radical agendas, are…
Several readers have forwarded the Bangor newspaper’s Monday story on illicit Chinese-controlled marijuana grow sites in Norridgewock, so I figured…
After much middle of the night reflection, I have reached at least two conclusions: First, Wilbur’s Woods needs to be…
During a critical housing shortage for Mainers, the state government continues to take in more migrants than it can accommodate. …
As a fellow bearer of a politically motivated felony conviction, I have some unsolicited advice for Donald J. Trump on…
Maine Democrats, a category that includes Sen. Angus King, regardless of what his alleged political pronouns are, have failed a…
On Thursday, the final act of former president Donald Trump’s show trial in New York was delivered. And just like…
Time to Address the “Vision Thing” on Ukraine Now that the Congress has signed off on what will be a…
This August, the Department of Education under the Biden Administration will put into effect its 1,500 page rule governing sex discrimination in…
Amid the snow-covered debate on Friday over a bill that would allow the state to seize firearms from Maine residents…
Maine’s recently defeated electric vehicle (EV) mandate tried to put the electric car before the battery. The citizen’s petition delivered…
“Set ups” are not right. In Maine and the Nation, law abiding gun-owners – Republicans, Independents, and Democrats – are…
It’s painful to watch a once-great newspaper commit professional suicide in slow motion. Sadly, the Bangor Daily News has transformed…
Recently, people from Joe Rogan to U.N. diplomats have argued that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with Rogan going so far as to…
Two amendments to Article III of the Wisconsin Constitution are being voted on this week. They are pivotal for Wisconsin,…
Among radical ideas destined to run aground, “hard rudder left,” are recyclable diapers, solar-, wind-, and Flintstone cars, snowplows pulled…
Last month, Maine lawmakers killed a bill that would have stopped a regressive energy program and lowered energy costs for…
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,” Mark Antony warns in Act of Three of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.…
In response to a rise in climate anxiety, particularly among young voters, politicians have made numerous “climate pledges” to transition…
Seldom in American history has a president so boldly insulted the American people, played demagogue, or taken us for fools…
Back before it much mattered — ie. when he was just a senator from Delaware, just the chairman of the…
Today, we are all Laken Hope Riley. If the name does not move you, it should. We are losing young people…
Maine’s public institutions, especially the government-run schools, have been consumed in recent years with crafting policies on the basis of…
Today is “Officers’ Day,” otherwise known as “Men’s Day” among those who served in the Soviet military. My former business…
While running as a Democrat for Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James referred to Donald Trump as a …
The following is an op-ed from Representative Reagan Paul: If you had a dollar for every time it was said…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is big — 27,326 square miles, encompassing what passes in Maine for cities, Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor,…
Let me ask you, what do you think China would do if President Xi discovered thousands of stealth drones, quiet…
Renowned conservative columnist Mark Steyn has been ordered by a Washington, D.C. jury to pay controversial global warming activist Michael…
Tucker Carlson is neither Walter Duranty (the notorious New York Times correspondent in Moscow in the 1930s who helped Josef Stalin cover…
Any among us that hoped the Senate negotiated border bill would somehow be better than the leaks had advertised were sadly disappointed…
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas due to the ongoing invasion across…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) is set to deliver her annual State of the State address Tuesday evening. The speech, her…
I got the weirdest email the other night from Donald Trump. He said he loved me. It was very confusing,…
The mother of all migrant magnets has been under construction in Augusta for two decades, if not longer. Engineered and…
Sears Island has long been known as a place of tranquility and home to abundant wildlife, migratory birds, botanical resources,…
Official Washington is laying it on thick when it comes to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s “secret” hospitalization for colon…
With Colorado and now Maine having removed Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot due to his engaging in a so-called…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is not a victim and she is not oppressed, cry as she may on…