Commentary
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School Choice Would Push the Public School System in the Right Direction
*The following essay placed second in the 2016 Milton Friedman Essay Contest Lilly F., Matthew...
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Pro-Minimum Wage Study Filled with Flaws
Recently, advocates of increasing Maine’s minimum wage published a study highlighting the alleged...
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America Needs Educational Choice to Enhance Quality of Life
*The following essay placed third in the 2016 Milton Friedman Essay Contest As the...
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LePage Is Right—Maine Has Too Many State Employees
Last week, a memo was leaked to the press outlining the LePage administration’s...
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Welfare Reform in Maine Continues with New Law Taking Effect Today
Between 2010-2014, 4,865 lottery tickets with a prize of $1,000 or more were...
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Critics Should Focus on SNAP Reform, Not Attacking LePage
The nonsensical backlash aimed at Gov. LePage following his attempt to ban junk...
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Maine Dem Rewarded for Role in Campaign Funding Scheme?
There have been many troubling developments surrounding the Democratic Party’s support for Hillary...
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Maine Education Association Puts Money Into Political Campaigns, Not Classrooms
The Maine Education Association has a tremendous influence on legislators in Augusta. But...
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Question 4: Eliminating the Tip Credit Is Bad for Business
In the last few months, The Maine Wire has drawn attention to the...
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A Trip to the Bloomberg Big Top Road Show
The Ringmaster has all the answers to the questions no one is asking...
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Maine Town Postpones Plan for Welfare Drug-Testing
Madawaska has unfortunately decided to postpone its common-sense proposal to randomly drug test...
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It’s Not Enough to Show Up to Vote
Being an engaged citizen is more important today than ever. As the general...
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Madawaska Considers Welfare Reforms Amid Economic Struggles
The town of Madawaska is considering bold changes to its General Assistance program...
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Every Life Matters
No matter your political ideology, you likely believe that a human being’s life...
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Another Dangerous Education Ballot Initiative
The biggest – and one of the most dangerous – myths in all...
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Maine People’s Alliance Should Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
The debate on whether or not voters should increase Maine’s minimum wage continues,...
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Is Maine Now Owned by New York?
With a Citizen’s Initiative Process ripe for abuse and for sale to any billionaire,...
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Clinton Escapes FBI Probe But Faces Trial in Court of Public Opinion
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like...
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Checking the Facts of Minimum Wage Hikes
Maine’s third-largest industry is tourism. At a size of approximately $2.2 billion and...
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Sierra Club Symbolic of Left’s Hypocrisy on Clean Elections
Recently I received a candidate questionnaire from the Sierra Club, a left-leaning organization...
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Maine Must Chip Away at Granite State’s Advantage
From the issues that birthed the United States to the proliferation of tax...
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Democrats’ Reckless Spending Habits Put Programs and People at Risk
Democrats cannot break their bad spending habits. This week I had to sign...
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The Promise of a ‘True Majority’ With Ranked-Choice Voting Doesn’t Add Up
Clare Hudson Payne’s June 9 BDN OpEd in support of ranked-choice voting is an example...
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Democrats’ Sit-In Protest Counterproductive to Their Cause
Last Wednesday night, the Democrats of Congress staged a “sit-in” protest on the...
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Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
As Krysta Lilly has already pointed out in a Lewiston Sun Journal column,...
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Maine Doesn’t Need New York-Style Gun Control
The proposal for Universal Background Checks on the November ballot seems simple, but...
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LePage’s Approach to the Economy Focuses on Maine’s Most Vulnerable
Over the weekend, the Bangor Daily News published an article titled: What stands...
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Rep. Pingree ‘Sits-In’ to Use Orlando Attack to Raise Campaign Cash
I read a lot of arguments in editorial pages and news commentary that...
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Questioning the Citizenship Behind Citizen Initiatives
I have lived in Maine for sixteen years. When I first moved here,...
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Gun Control Initiatives Are Funded by a Few Anti-Gun Billionaires
Contrary to the grassroots image that anti-gun groups try to portray, their funding...
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If There’s No Raise for Seniors and Veterans, There Should Be No Raise for Congress
Our State is home to more than 107,000 seniors and more than 126,000...
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Can We Semi-Automatically Speak the Same Language About Guns?
Do Americans speak the same language anymore? Within hours of the Orlando shooting,...
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Truth and Consequences Surrounding the Federal Gun Debate
“Words have meaning, and we would ALL be better off if some TRUTH...
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National Monument Supporters Willfully Ignore Facts
Supporters of a North Woods national monument – such as David Farmer –...
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Memo to Maine Media: Stop Being Duped by Astroturf
Imagine you’re a Maine reporter. And imagine you get the following press releases:...
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Independent Medicine to the Rescue – Transparency Reveals Hospital Fee Bubble
As one of the few remaining independent physicians in the Bangor area, I...
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May Jobs Report is Grim for Recent Graduates
The first Friday of every month, one of the most important statistics in...
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The Gun Debate Is Divorced From Reality
The moment news broke about the shooting in Orlando — now the nation’s...
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Despite Record Fundraising, Russell Finished Dead Last in Portland Race
As the dust settles from the primary elections, it’s become clear that voters...
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Mainers for Responsible Gun Ownership is Yet Another Front for Bloomberg
On Tuesday, June 7 the Sun Journal posted a column in which David...
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Terrorists, Not Disagreements, Are Our Greatest Threat
I’m writing this week with a heavy heart. The mass shooting by a...
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Progressives Have Turned Their Backs on Maine’s Most Vulnerable Citizens
This is a comment I received from an 81-year old widow in Penobscot...
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Obama’s Gun Control Agenda Ignores the Root of True Evil
“This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for...
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Another D-Day Has Quietly Come and Gone
“That road to V-E Day was hard and long, and traveled by weary...
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Tax Code Shaken, Economic Outlook Not Stirred
A common argument put forth by proponents of tax-and-spend schemes is that pro-growth...
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Tax Hike Referendum Harmful to School Funding
A cone was excavated by the French at the site of ancient Lagash,...
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LePage: NRCM Should Meet with Me to Create Jobs for Mainers
Last week the executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine was...
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Serving Those Who Have Served Our Nation
Serving our Veterans should be a commonsense goal for each and every one...
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Hypocrisy Abounds in the CD 2 Race
How many times have you seen liberal Maine candidates for office, or political...
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Clinton’s Pattern of Dishonesty is Alarming
Everyone can agree that this election cycle is a continuing political phenomenon. It...
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Ranked Choice Voting: a Solution in Search of a Problem
In 2010, then-Mayor Paul LePage managed to win the governorship with roughly 38...
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Maine People’s Alliance’s Shocking Agenda
Do you ever wonder what the other side’s playbook looks like in Augusta?...
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Another New York “Solution” for a “Problem” We Don’t Have
Here we go again. More out-of-state money pouring into Maine to help us...
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DHHS Error Rates Story Blown Out of Proportion
Recently, the Bangor Daily News (BDN) published this article which describes the supposed...
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Liberals vs. Conservatives in the Maine Media
This week let’s do a little thought experiment on the differences in how...
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Why Are Mainers Poor?
Yesterday, The Maine Heritage Policy Center released a new report, “Top 10 Things...
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Ballot Questions Would Take Maine Backwards
We have made progress to lower the income tax, fight the drug epidemic,...
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Governor Addresses U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources
Governor Paul R. LePage on Wednesday delivered remarks to the U.S. House Committee...
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Portland Press Herald Stoops to Newest Low
The Portland Press Herald, a left-leaning publication well known for holding its priority...
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A Message to RCV Supporters: Lepage Won, Get Over It Already
At a recent political event, I was confronted by a ranked choice voting...
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New Overtime Rules Do More Harm Than Good
“Without question, these new regulations will hurt Maine workers more than help.” In...
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Four Things Other New England States Are Doing Worse Than Maine
New England, on the whole, is an economically-depressed region. Between 2004 and 2014,...
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Thank You to the True Defenders of Liberty and Justice for All
It is an honor to pay tribute to those men and women who...
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Little Pink Tree Donated to Help Support Veterans in Big Way This Memorial Day
As a teacher in the Bangor School District, I have decorated my classroom...
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Socialist and Security Risk: Rep. McCabe Combines Worst of Bernie and Hillary
I often tell people I know that I feel bad for Democrat voters...
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House Acts to Combat the Heroin Epidemic
Over the past several months, I have seen firsthand the scale of the...
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A Taxpayer Exits New Jersey… And the State Panics
“Any state that depends on income taxes is going to get sick whenever...
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Question 1 Ballot Committee Claims Immunity to Law They Helped Enact
Last November, Mainers voted to pass Question 1, nearly tripling the amount of...
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Connecting our Maine Veterans with the Services they Deserve
One of the great privileges of my time as Governor has been the...
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Man Who Burns His Food Goes Hungry
When thinking about ethanol, I am reminded of a song my children listened...
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$10 Billion Veterans Choice Program is Failing Our Veterans
Although it doesn’t happen often, last week, National Public Radio and I were...
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LePage’s welfare reforms are lifting Mainers out of poverty
I love it when liberals are wrong. Especially the self-indulgent keyboard warrior types...
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House Majority Leader’s Stunt to Shame Elderly Woman Recklessly Goes Too Far
In a shameless effort to promote his environmentalism, Representative Jeff McCabe took to...
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Will History Repeat Itself?
With an election year looming over of us, it is has become increasingly...
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Regulations Drive Up Cost of Child Care in Maine
For many families with young children, especially single-parent households, child care is critical...
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How to Bring Accountability to Public Schools
“When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the...
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Federal Circuit Court Rules Against Obama Administration
Obamacare suffered another major defeat last week when the federal circuit court ruled...
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Thousands of Mainers Could See Premium Increases over 40%
Community Health Options (CHO), a Lewiston-based insurance provider, has asked the Maine Bureau...
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NRCM is Ignoring the Will of Rural Mainers
The Natural Resources Council of Maine is at it again. First, they denied...
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MPA: Need, Want, Demand!
This morning in my email, I received a MPA Campaign Vote! Candidate Questionnaire. Naturally,...
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Energy Costs and Fairy Dust
I requested (actually, I begged) to serve on Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee,...
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Many Questions Remain Unanswered Following National Monument Forum
“Maine people know that it isn’t about conservation. It is about control and...
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Two Years After the VA Scandal: Where Are We Now?
In April of 2014, reports and rumors of the mistreatment of veterans through...
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Education Referendum is Too Good to Be True
As with the rest of life, if something in the political world sounds...
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Protecting Our Citizens’ Privacy
The 21st Century ushered in striking technological improvements that have enhanced and changed...
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Portland’s Newest Prohibitionist Proposal
Maine’s history is long and varied, but perhaps its greatest impact on the nation...
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NRCM to Bus National Monument Supporters to Meeting Next Week
Governor Paul R. LePage today reiterated his opposition to a proposal from out-of-state...
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It’s Not About the Children, It’s About the Union
The Maine Education Association is putting a dishonest initiative on the November ballot....
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PPH Refuses to Print Facts About Warden Service Raid
After the Portland Press Herald refused to print a detailed response with the...
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EXCLUSIVE: LePage’s Most Beloved Veto
With all the news coverage of Governor LePage’s adoption of a Jack Russell...
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Who Would Really Benefit from Education Tax Initiative?
This November, Maine voters will decide on an initiative to provide further public...
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UMaine Flagship Match Program Brings Over 700 New Students to Maine
As a college senior preparing for graduation and the real world (yikes!), I...
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Portland Pirates’ Departure Highlights What Corporate Welfare Can Get You
“The Legislature reached bipartisan agreement on welfare reform recently. It’s long past time...
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Blame Dill and Liberals for Poor Economic Record, Not Me
As a shameless shill for liberal causes, it’s no surprise that Cynthia Dill...
