It was nine years ago today that New York City Mayor Warren Wilhelm, Jr. (pseudonym: “Bill of Blasio”) strode to…
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Speaking to graduates of the school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, New York Times…
Maine’s top newspaper editors joined Maine Public Broadcasting’s Jennifer Rooks for a “month in review” segment last Friday in which…
My friend Richard is what I guess you would call a centrist Democrat, though he doesn’t like party labels. But…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler to talk about the latest reporting on the…
Democratic politicians and activists appear to have coordinated a nationwide campaign to mislead taxpayers about a proposal from Republican lawmakers…
News Center Maine, the Portland-based NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc., cribbed the Maine Wire’s exclusive reporting on the abrupt…
Before writing anything further here, please excuse any saltiness in my take. Full disclosure: I pleaded guilty to failing to…
In a video posted to Youtube on Saturday, Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) said all income tax cuts are essentially…
Ok, this is just getting silly – on Saturday, the Justice Department announced that the FBI found more documents in…
Are NPR listeners and readers living in a different reality than the rest of us? A news piece the taxpayer-funded…
Just after the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation in 1961, the newly-inaugurated President John F. Kennedy called Richard Bissell, the…
Throughout last year, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills stated repeatedly in her debates with former Republican Gov. Paul LePage that she…
Hillary and Barack had Saul Alinsky with his “Rules for Radicals,” but the Democratic Socialists of America’s Maine chapter have…
Recently the SAD 17 school district in western Maine, my kid’s school district, tried to enact a policy based on…
Apparently, Gov. Janet Mills is expecting a $2 billion visit from the tooth fairy. While introducing the third two-year budget…
I write today in defense of “Many Stitches Hold Up the Sky” — the controversial mural that will soon grace…
Attorney General Merrick Garland, once a hero of the left-wing media for his investigations of former President Donald Trump, has…
The news cycle is familiar: 1) A government bureaucracy proposes some ridiculous progressive idea based on equity, gender ideology, climate…
Disclosure: The Maine Wire is a project of the the Maine Policy Institute, a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to advancing free…
While overwhelming numbers of homeless Americans in every major city across our nation live on the street, in their cars,…
The advent of the New Year brings good news and bad news from the Statehouse swamp. Frankly, most of the…
As the state committee of the Maine Republican Party prepares to elect a chairperson at the end of this month,…
Maine’s political reporters rung in the New Year — and the official start of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ second term…
Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah on Monday tweeted out a list of recommended books and podcasts he planned to enjoy…
The clown show on the Kennebec returned to the State House for an encore appearance last week, and this time…
Early next month, the 168 members of the Republican National Committee will vote either to grant Ronna McDaniel another term…
Overdose deaths from Fentanyl poisoning have created a lot of pain and suffering for Mainers, their families, and our entire…
Unlike the Scorpions, neither you nor I have to walk down to Gorky Park to listen to the winds of…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined Newsmax host Eric Bolling Wednesday night to explain the ongoing federal crusade against the…
University of Chicago instructor Rebecca Journey has accused a student at the school of inciting white nationalist terrorism against her…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson filled in on WGAN’s Morning News for an hour this morning. He covered the “Twitter…
The biennial clown show on the banks of the Kennebec opened last week at the Statehouse with scores of newcomers…
The second batch of the so-called “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk to independent journalist Bari Weiss offers conclusive proof…
Liberals in Brunswick are going to war with one another over a $70,000 painting that’s going to end up on…
Whenever someone promises two for the price of one, the savvy consumer is naturally suspicious. Should the same suspicion not…
If you don’t know who Leslie Dach is, there’s no need to beat yourself up over it. I’m a recovering…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows confirmed this week that the effort to establish a “consumer-owned” utility in Maine, led by…
Jeffrey, a manager at the Portland branch of Whole Foods, won’t tell me whether or not his store sells Maine…
No less than three men in crisp, black uniforms helped guide me to an available spot in the garage beneath…
For more than 30 years, Americans have been propagandized with a climate alarmist apocalyptic message: global warming (now climate change)…
One of the great things about being Jack Smith is the sheer number of well-meaning people who want to help…
On October 6, 2021, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) had…
Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, a critical tool journalists and citizens can use to hold state and local governments accountable,…
During the midterm campaign period, then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy cast doubt on future spending in support of Ukraine’s defense.…
The New York Federal Reserve Bank has entered a partnership with major global banks to test the concept of a…
Now that we’ve had a week or so to reflect on the blue wave that crashed over Maine on Election…
Growing up as an 10th generation Mainer taught me many things. Foremost among them was the importance of family and…
The day after the Republican Party’s humiliating under-performance in Tuesday’s mid-term election, I received an email from Donald J. Trump.…
President Biden gave Americans “one final warning” that our democracy is at risk this week, his Chief-of-Staff Ron Klain explained…
The Portland Press Herald, Maine’s largest newspaper, filed an op-ed Sunday advocating the curious position that politicians have no control…
When a career politician takes multiple positions on the same issue, is it more confusing because of the head-spinning inconsistency…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’s administration recommends that elementary schools carry pornographic books such as Gender Queer, a graphic novel (what we…
Karina Lipsman, the Republican congressional challenger for Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, is calling on her opponent, entrenched Democrat Rep. Don…
It’s a genuine Aroostook County Mystery: What happened to Sue McCrum, the matriarch of the powerful Penobscot McCrum potato empire, that led…
With the 2022 midterm elections already underway in most parts of the country, thanks to early voting, President Joe Biden’s…
With midterm elections just days away, we’re finally hearing some talk on the campaign trail about the impact of illegal…
In all likelihood, William Marbury was really bummed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1803 that it lacked jurisdiction…
Maine Wire EIC Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler show Tuesday morning to talk about Maine Wire’s…
Up until a week ago, I wrote a weekly column on politics for three papers in the Mid-coast: The Republican…
With Indigenous Peoples Day replacing Columbus Day, Goodbye, Columbus seemed a natural, but I realized that most folks under 50…
Maine Wire EIC Steve Robinson joined WGAN Morning News host Matt Gagnon this morning to cover his reporting on a…
Maine lobstermen and women aren’t stupid, though it seems Gov. Janet Mills thinks they are. The governor was recently heckled by members…
Maine’s Second Congressional district is receiving national attention, which isn’t a great sign for incumbent Democratic Rep. Jared Golden (CD-2),…
New York Times reporter Stuart A. Thompson labeled the story a far-right “conspiracy theory” involving a Michigan company whose software…
Maine lobster was recently placed on the unsustainable “red list” by the environmental group Seafood Watch, a non-profit associated with…
President Biden may have admitted “the pandemic is over” with regard to COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be…
On February 7, 1968, after American military forces rained rockets, napalm, and bombs on the village of Ben Tre in…
Inflation still isn’t letting up, and it’s a top concern for Americans right now. But we just learned of yet…
There are mounting concerns over profound learning loss due to prolonged school closures and remote learning. New data released last…
If the inevitable tradeoffs are ignored, most people would be in favor of getting a free lunch. Unfortunately, there ain’t no…
As I predicted, Biden’s latest policy announcement spelled the end of the student loan payment pause which began during Covid-19…
High energy costs are making Maine increasingly unaffordable for people of average means. Misguided state energy policies are contributing to…
A federal appeals court this week sided with several companies whose applications to sell nicotine vaping products in a variety…
Fact: Climate Change is a constant feature of the Earth, predating humans and modern human activity. Fear: Human caused increases…
There’s an apocryphal quote often misattributed to Ben Franklin that goes something like this: “When the people find that they…
In August 2021 Science Magazine, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, highlighted groundbreaking…
According to NBC News, there are 4 million fewer students enrolled in college than there were 10 years ago, and there…
My dad remembers when his family got their first television. It was black and white, and there were only three…
During his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Joe Biden repeatedly insisted that his primary goal as president would…
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…