During his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would…
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When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what issues were most important to them, education…
Up For Growth (UFG), a nonprofit membership organization which was “founded to elevate and amplify the need for solutions” to…
Support for school choice is becoming increasingly strong and widespread, actually transcending the often-impervious boundaries of political party identification. Over…
The time has come to say goodbye, sooner than expected, but I have accepted a job as state representative and…
Americans love their fast-food supersized. But supersizing the Internal Revenue Service? Probably not so popular. That’s evidently of little concern…
Maine’s Supreme Court is set to rule any day now on an appeal of the referendum that passed last year…
Last October, public interest journalism outfit The Maine Monitor broke the story of a newly-discovered large—and extremely valuable—lithium ore deposit…
This November, Portland residents will vote on five citizens’ initiatives, four of which were sponsored by the Maine chapter of the…
Earlier this month, the Treasury Department approved a plan to invest $110 million “to strengthen or expand broadband infrastructure across the state.”…
The chorus calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to prosecute Donald Trump for his actions…
Meta’s third-party fact-checkers have flagged as “false information” posts on Instagram and Facebook accusing the Biden administration of changing the…
The new academic year hasn’t even begun and public school enrollment is already not looking good in some parts of…
Starting this August, senior citizens in Maine will be able to freeze their property tax rate, preventing their bill from…
When the government tries to micromanage the everyday habits of millions of people, it doesn’t always go well, to put…
In April of 2020, the Press Herald republished a Washington Post article which covered President Trump’s distribution of $1,200 relief checks to…
I completed another plumbing project this past weekend. The toilet in our master bathroom had been leaking for a while.…
A massive federal bailout of state and local governments during the pandemic had a negligible effect on overall employment levels…
News reports say the Biden administration is currently weighing a plan that would allow all adults to receive a second…
I don’t read much fiction these days. I have a limited amount of time and think it’s better to read…
On June 21, 2022, the United States Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Carson v. Makin, declaring unconstitutional…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally determined what’s to blame for America’s recent shortage of baby formula. The…
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that mask mandates did little to nothing to curb the spread of Covid-19.…
Contrary to the New York Times, I don’t believe that the Supreme Court “spurred” our nation’s current divisiveness. That divisiveness…
As the popularity of harvesting and eating seaweed grows in America, a new Maine Public Radio investigation, along with other recent…
“Our goal is to have a system in which every family in the U.S. will be able to choose for…
It took COVID-19 for many Americans to start paying closer attention to public education in America, and a growing number…
The desire and need for school choice nationwide is now clearer than ever. Since the onset of the pandemic, already…
Last Thursday, my wife and I were scheduled to fly to D.C. for a friend’s daughter’s wedding. Wednesday around midnight,…
Where I grew up in northern Minnesota, it’s easy to see the impact that economic hard times leave on disadvantaged…
Several factors contribute to soaring gasoline prices, but the greed of oil barons is an unlikely explanation no matter what President Joe…
In the aftermath of widespread pandemic-era learning disruptions, many parents and community members are seeking more information on what is…
According to the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform, Maine is currently ranked 44th in the nation in…
On June 17, I attended the COVID-delayed swearing-in ceremony for my successor as United States Attorney for the District of…
In recent weeks, our hearts have been broken and our consciences racked by the awful massacre of elementary school children…
Since President Joe Biden took office office early last year, America’s long-term budget deficit has grown by $2.4 trillion. But that…
In what appears to have been little more than a political litmus test of party purity, Democrats in Cumberland County…
The rise in consumer prices has rightly received a great deal of attention, as inflation hovers around 40-year highs. Everyone…
Last week, the Maine Democratic Socialists of America rushed to file paperwork with the City of Portland that set in…
Is it possible that despite the mounting evidence against them, some lockdown enthusiasts are still unwilling to let go of…
It is illegal and unacceptable for law enforcement officers to use excessive force. It’s relatively easy to state that general…
For John Lewis, his local school district’s decision to enact hybrid learning during the COVID-19 pandemic made finding a work-life…
President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill apportioned $1.2 trillion for such projects as roads, bridges, and airports. But it also designated $65 billion “to…
Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce…
The recent mass shootings at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York and the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas were…
Last month, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it is developing “product standards to prohibit menthol as a…
Government policies fail and create problems in the real world every day. But most Americans are so busy in their…
Shame used to be a relatively simple thing. You did something wrong. You knew it. It was a self-evident truth:…
Over the past two years of social and economic disruption, U.S. education has experienced an extraordinary transformation that can best…
There are a lot of benefits to the New England Clean Energy Connect – benefits we’ve heard a great deal…
On May 14, 18-year-old Payton Gendron traveled more than 200 miles from his hometown to a predominantly Black neighborhood of…
If you’ve ever been to the state of Oregon – home of the “other” Portland – you only need to…
Americans are already struggling under the weight of crippling inflation, from skyrocketing gas prices to exorbitant grocery bills. And even…
It wasn’t long ago that Democrats were claiming that the For the People Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and the John Lewis…
It’s been two week since a federal court threw out the CDC’s transport mask mandate, to the glee of some…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving fast to close off what seems to be the last remaining legal…
Harm reductionists praise Maine’s new Good Samaritan law. I’m not sure it’s deserved. I will explain why because I don’t expect anyone…
Sometimes I have to remind myself how good we Americans have it because—let’s face it—there is a lot of bad…
Maine is embracing new California-style laws aimed at reducing restrictions on new housing. It could soon run into some of…
A new study recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that students with greater access to…
On April 18, Florida federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle invalidated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) order requiring that passengers wear masks on…
Bureaucrats cling to power. It’s their institutional predisposition. So it was no surprise on Wednesday when the Department of Justice…
The last couple of years have been a revelation when it comes to public health measures for battling COVID-19 and…
Last week, while driving toward the peninsula on Outer Congress Street around Craigie Street, I passed a seemingly able-bodied woman…
Last week, LD 2003, a bill sponsored by Speaker Ryan Fecteau to reform local and state-level housing policy, passed engrossment votes in…
Mainers deserve access to high-quality health care with an affordable price tag. Following the events of the last two years,…
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, even alarmist government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have admitted that it’s time to…
The trend of people quitting Portland government (councilors Nicholas Mavodones, Jill Duson, Spencer Thibodeau, city manager Jon Jennings, police chief…
Tax Day is a fitting day to revisit where our tax-and-spend ways have gotten us. When the president’s own stimulus-spending…
Inflation has surged across much of the developed world in the past year as COVID-19 lockdowns eased and pent-up demand…
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a comparable internal…
(If you read my column “Have We No Recourse?”, this column is intended as a sequel to that one.) To…
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data now show fentanyl overdose to be the top cause of death…
How can we end the cycle of recrimination from which we are suffering and restore faith in our government? We…
Another day, another alarming inflation metric. We just got the numbers for the Personal Consumption Expenditures index (PCE), the Federal…
It’s hard to decide who is worse, actor Jussie Smollett, who faked a racist and homophobic attack in order to…
Over the last year, frequent communications from University of Maine System leaders Chancellor Malloy and UM/UMM President Ferrini-Mundy endorsed “equity”…
Mandatory motor vehicle inspections already cost Mainers $14 million and countless hours of wasted time every single year, but just…
Despite inflation running at a 40-year high, the Biden administration is pushing ahead with plans to hike wages for federal…
As a physician – one who has dedicated his career to treating lung diseases – it has become clear to…
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…
In December of 1994, a United States Capitol Police Officer shot and killed Marcelino Corniel in front of the White House. Corniel…
President Woodrow Wilson wanted a professional bureaucracy that was apolitical. The theory sounded great but was unfortunately based on a…
Ten months ago, Jeremy Siegel issued a dire warning about the trajectory of prices. “The money supply since the beginning…
Weakness is a contagion. Years in the future, when the historians are done analyzing our present moment, they may well…
Ghislane Maxwell’s attorneys say that three jurors concealed their experience of sexual abuse. One described in an interview with the…
This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news…
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…
I was working on several items closer to home but events in Ukraine overtook me. Last week was one of…
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…
Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed…
One of the basic functions of government is to right wrongs. When all else fails, we resort to the legal…
At a “ladies night” fundraiser in Toronto in 2013, an up-and-coming politician was asked which nation’s administration he admired most…
Antitrust is a hot topic in Washington lately. The pervasive reach of big technology companies into our personal lives and…
On February 2nd, the 2022 Walk-for-Vets kicked off in Augusta. People are walking 2.2 miles in 22 states for a 22 day-long…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban recently announced his latest, ground-breaking innovation, and it’s one that should catch the attention of Americans.…
The New York Times Style Section’s Modern Love column on February 13 was entitled “What Is Black Love Today” and described as…
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public…
The dominoes are falling. In just the last month, public leaders of numerous (though not all) European countries, the nation of Israel,…
Central Maine Power provides electricity about 80% of residential customers in Maine, including my house. Factors that influence electricity consumption include the size of…