When U.S. Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree needed to finger ICE, she apparently couldn’t do it in Maine.Funny how a congresswoman…
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The day before the one-year anniversary of the shootings, I learned of Ben Dyer and his story of survival and…
The famous major-league star ballplayer Darryl Strawberry once said all addictions are the same.Strawberry actually wasn’t so prescient because he…
LEWISTON, Maine – Lewiston City Council President David Chittim sent a note to fellow councilors Thursday evening portraying the council…
The Maine Press Association, comprised of liberal passé rags, is doing its best to put lipstick on a pig.The organization…
The leading Democrat in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary temporarily abandoned his plea for campaign contributions to issue a plea…
As the purchase by a Colorado-based nonprofit of the Portland Press Herald approaches its three-year anniversary, the bean counters must…
Back in those early, heady days of the Biden administration there was some loose talk about nominating U.S. Sen. Angus…
When President Trump announced last week he was rolling back greenhouse-gas emission cuts, Janet Mills saw a moment.But the problem…
A private hospitality guru who has a lucrative contract providing services to national park visitors got an invite five years…
Democrat Janet Mills put out a new ad questioning whether Maine’s Republican U.S. senator has “enough courage.” But the real…
A rogue Georgetown University researcher is making waves with her suggestion we hit the pause button on vacuuming trash from…
China and Iran crossed policy red-lines in recent weeks. Iran crossed President Trump’s declared red-line by executing some 30,000 protestors.…
National conservative TV and radio host Wayne Allyn Root just had to get that off his chest. “Roger Goodell Is…
The southern Maine sheriff who went from loving federal-ICE inmates to blasting the federal agency that helped pay his bills…
The SignalGate scandal in Minnesota has revealed that Democratic government officials have been simultaneously play-calling maneuvers on the ground involving…
It’s become far too easy to call it fraud. The word rolls off the tongue, sounds bureaucratic, and feels almost…
The sage on high at Maine’s largest newspaper apparently thinks it’s OK to sweep under the rug $7 million in…
Gotta feel for the parents of kids who got a free pass to skip class so they could put ICE…
Seventy-eight-year-old Gov. Janet Mills is being forced to fend off her own party’s concerns about her age. That according to…
If New England fans are upset that ex-Patriots coach Bill Belichick was denied a first chance into the Hall of…
The store with the red target is trying out a new “customer experience” it hopes will make you feel wanted.…
AUGUSTA, Maine — ICE wasn’t created by Donald Trump. It was created by Congress in 2003 under the Department of…
Hard to believe a seasoned, lifetime politician such as Democrat Gov. Janet Mills can’t come up with a good answer…
If twice begins a trend, put down embattled Maine political icon George J. Mitchell under the definition. Long respected not…
Here we go again. Janet Mills wants you to say “thank you” for $300 while MaineCare burns. In her final…
A Twitter “satirist” has attracted more than 3.7 million clicks after reporting that the embattled former head coach of the…
Secretary of State and Democratic Gubernatorial hopeful Shenna Bellows (D) was in the news recently for her decision to change…
The executive editor of Maine’s largest paper has taken a page from a former Democrat White House aide who famously…
Imagine spending your Saturday afternoon outside in 8-degree cold, holding signs and chanting hatred at the very people whose job…
124,000 vs. 92,000. That would be the numbers of Facebookers who follow The Maine Wire and the Portland Press Herald,…
Maine’s largest paper has outdone even itself in the self-loathing sphere, begging readers for encrypted ICE tips. But judging from…
Maine lawmakers are now considering LD 838 titled “An Act to Establish the Maine Clean Energy Authority,” a bill sponsored…
Jon Reisman The new year opened with a roar — Mamdani, Trump, Venezuela, Minnesota, Collins, Mills, Platner, Lewiston, and Fraud…
Maine’s moribund economy could certainly use a boost in the form of a new Coast Guard training center. But the…
Maine’s shrewd senior U.S. senator may be able to play off President Trump’s anger towards her to win re-election. If…
If the Maine newspaper guild wants to find out what happens when you force a company’s hand, it should take…
The awful day is upon us. It is a day Democrats tell us is right up there with Dec. 7,…
Aging “No Kings” Boomers and nose-ring Columbia Intifada enthusiasts alike have a new boyfriend and his name is Nicolás Maduro.…
As 2025 winds down, one-word towers above the rest in American public life: fraud. Not inflation. Not immigration. Not even…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Every generation in American life is marked by a crime that captures its dark side and because of that becomes…
Across Maine, unanswered questions are no longer isolated mysteries but instead form a pattern, one marked by official silence, selective…
A state senator who was a Republican before he decided the only ostensible way to win the governor’s office was…
By Brooke Thompson Often when the topic of homeschooling comes up, skeptic rolls their eyes as if they know more…
Governor Mills, Is It Me — or Is It You? Governor, I’ve asked myself this question more than once over…
Just when you thought a young Mainer might be catching a break, The Establishment struck back with a new poll…
Critics abound, and they always will. They should. Pursuing truth is a high calling. Our Founders urged us to test…
By Owen McCarthy I grew up in a trailer in Patten, the son of a logger and a lunch lady.…
A liberal political lobby announced Wednesday it’s going after Maine’s Angus King for going soft on President Trump. But in…
“Two things for you to think about,” the high-priced, quite possibly best in the business First Amendment lawyer told me.…
It is now a national news story, even in the liberal media: a massive Somali-linked welfare fraud scandal. This troubling…
A federal judge today dismissed the government’s case against former FBI director James Comey, whose strained relationship with the truth…
By Lauren LePage For too long, American politics has drifted toward tribalism. Democrats talk toDemocrats, Republicans talk to Republicans. Look…
Maine will have a host of political primaries next June that should be entertaining,consequential and interrelated. Turnout and demographic differences…
A few years back, a man who was then a state representative shared with me a frustration he had about…
New York just elected a communist, antisemitic, Muslim mayor, and Maine is tipping that way. There is plainly trouble in…
Earlier this week, The Maine Wire ran an op-ed by Larry Lockman entitled “Ballot Box Boomerang: Will Maine Republicans Overcome…
The day before the crushing defeat of Question One on November 4th— which would have reformed absentee voting and mandated…
Fur better or fur worse, the Democrat state rep and congressional hopeful looking to skin incumbent Chellie Pingree alive was…
By Paul T. McCarrier Maine’s October 27 recall of Yani vape cartridges wasn’t a fluke—it was a warning. The Office…
For all the sound and fury surrounding Question 1 on Tuesday’s ballot, Question 2 seems like a forgotten sibling about…
It takes a surfeit of sympathy really to feel badly for a Member of Congress, but when one votes for…
It’s easy to see why President Trump wants to ban illegals from driving tractor-trailer trucks. If you can’t speak English…
An old Maine saying counsels “if you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.” If any real stock is to…
Pine Tree State Polls are rarely as interesting as the most recent one. As the current occupant of the Blaine…
Maine is promulgating climate, energy and equity policies that have had an adverse disparate impact on rural Maine and the…
I have studied Maine history my entire adult life and spent 20 years in state government and politics, and it…
Most of us who won’t be voting in the Democrat primary next year noticed something interesting this week: within 24…
When the late, one-term U.S. Senator Bill Hathaway passed away a little more than a decade ago, Mainers were too…
By Robert Wessels In light of everything that has unfolded over the past few weeks, including the discoveryof hundreds of…
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Is the push and pull in the energy and climate regulatory environment hurting the ability for companies to finance and…
Steve Robinson talks about the documentary he published with the Tucker Carlson Network (TCN) — High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover…
The scourge of antisemitism has been on the rise for several years in the U.S., most recently on college campuses, and perhaps…
A box containing 250 blank Maine voter ballots was mistakenly delivered to a woman’s home in an Amazon package this…
By Robert Wessels I believe in protecting our communities. I believe in preserving the Constitution. Those two goals are not…
By Ben Midgley For too many Mainers, the opportunity to achieve the American Dream is passing by. As a father…
A Newburgh resident expecting an Amazon delivery of rice, paper plates and a toy lightsaber instead opened a box to…
As if it were not enough that Charlie Kirk was cut down on a college campus in Utah by a…
The NBC cable network’s canned political analyst who mocked Charlie Kirk’s murder says it’s more worried about ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s…
By Paul Mills As someone who has spent a career protecting the most vulnerable in our community, from the elderly…
The Portland Press Herald has been outed in a sitcom – emphasis on ‘com’ – about a failing newspaper. “We’re…
By David Bossie Forever the happy warrior, my good friend Charlie Kirk was tragically assassinated yesterday doing his life’s work…
“What is more dangerous in Ukraine than in Washington or Chicago?” Andrey Baida, a Ukrainian, commented on the Facebook post…
(Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, before the ‘Karen’ haircut)
We are in a nuclear renaissance, whether you like it or not. If you’re skeptical, it’s likely because you’re stuck…
By Ray Richardson Bill Diamond’s life was a study in devotion—devotion to family, to his community of Windham, to the…
Some say even a broken clock is right twice a day, while others suggest that Washington, DC has a moderating…
Please, get it right. The Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN) seem not to like Republicans, or at least those…
Susan Collins is probably used to getting a lot of free advice from various people by now, many of whom…
The heir to the Angus King name and fortune is so generous he’s sharing his tips on wealth with Joe…
The landscape is littered with self-described political wannabes thinking they can take on the party elites to win the big,…
Is the Maine Trust for Local News staff, threatening to expand its union, preparing for a ‘strike’ if it doesn’t…
Maine Governor Janet Mills and her administration have refused to follow President Donald Trump’s executive order interpreting Title IX to…
With all eyes on Washington as President Donald Trump seeks to secure a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, it’s…
If your only news sources were the Bangor Daily News, the Maine Trust for Local News, or Maine Public, then…
Despite being the oldest state in America, Maine has in recent years been surprisingly tolerant of young candidates seeking election…
Beyond Big Balls and the beating he received while defending his date last week, the federal government’s recent move at…
A well-known liar from Massachusetts’ biggest legacy rag is actually questioning the honesty of an Irish murder suspect from Maine.…