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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday aimed at eradicating the last vestiges of the COVID-19-era mandates by…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), who during the COVID-19 pandemic implemented stringent prohibitions on public gatherings and stay-at-home directives, will…
Hours after the release of a BET News interview, in which President Joe Biden claimed that he would consider dropping…
During a recent hearing on the national security risks of funding virus research like gain-of-function at labs such as Wuhan…
Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine (BOLIM) on Tuesday extended the suspension of Dr. Meryl Nass, an Ellsworth internist who…
A group of 300 scientists warned that Anthony Fauci would start a global pandemic as far back as 2014, according…
Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and four of his colleagues sent a letter Friday to President Joe Biden…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday that he is suing Pfizer, alleging the pharmaceutical giant unlawfully misrepresented the effectiveness…
Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) released subpoenaed internal communications Thursday revealing how the Biden White…
The new Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Puthiery Va joined the taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio…
In a new guidance issued Wednesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warned young healthy adults under the age of 65…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday that every American older than six months should go get…
Testimony from a CIA whistleblower to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence…
Biden Administration officials likely violated the First Amendment by “coercing” and “significantly encouraging” social media companies to censor citizens’ protected…
In a CNN interview Saturday, Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the use…
Foreign nationals bilked American taxpayers for more than $280 billion as a panicked federal government handed out relief funds during…
A District Court judge just gave the lawsuit brought against the University of Maine System for allegedly violating a former…
The Portland Press Herald collaborated with Gov. Janet Mills’ sister Dora Mills on Friday to hype a new COVID-19 variant…
Dr. Meryl Nass, a Ellsworth doctor who has been a vocal critic of official policies during the pandemic and of…
Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shared newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Saturday that he has sent an official criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci to the…
In a 77-63 vote that fell mostly along party lines, the House of Representatives moved Tuesday to kill a bill…
The New York Times invented a new word on Wednesday as part of a growing call from health officials in…
Large financial technology firms “caused tremendous harm to taxpayers” by facilitating the flow of tens of billions of dollars in…
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that mask mandates did little to nothing to curb the spread of Covid-19.…
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…
The last couple of years have been a revelation when it comes to public health measures for battling COVID-19 and…
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…
On Monday, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona touted new academic research to show that masks have been effective at reducing…
Since the world learned of a novel coronavirus emerging from Wuhan, China in December 2019, there has been no shortage…
The pandemic was a test of America’s public health bureaucracy. It failed.
On September 9th, President Joe Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency tasked with regulating workplace safety,…
According to Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew, Maine healthcare workers will not be able to…
A newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant…
The ACLU on Tuesday announced it is bringing a lawsuit against South Carolina over its mask policy. The Palmetto State…
On August 12, Maine Governor Janet Mills issued an emergency rule change through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…
Jennifer Bridges knew what was coming when her director at Houston Methodist hospital called her up in June to inquire…
At the end of July, Governor Mills and the Maine CDC issued a recommendation that all K-12 students wear face…
A viral Instagram post claimed that COVID-19 is 99 percent survivable for most age groups—the elderly being an important exception. The post…
On August 12, Gov. Janet Mills announced that all Maine healthcare workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
Over a recent 12-day period the Milwaukee Brewers had nine players test positive for COVID-19. While we don’t know the…
Last week I received a letter from my children’s school district. “We will start the school year this fall -…
As the data stand right now, deaths are not on pace with new infections across the country, and we are still in a much better position in the pandemic than just a few months ago, so let’s act like it.
It is far past time to reopen the border between the United States and Canada. Even Gov. Janet Mills agrees…
On July 28, Gov. Janet Mills announced updates to Maine’s recommendations for wearing face coverings in indoor settings. The state…
In another attempt to “follow the science,” a pediatrics group has issued guidance that does the exact opposite. The American…
Individual responsibility and autonomy will always outweigh government coercion, and that includes getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
According to data provided by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of July 6, 44.5% of…
COVID-19 vaccines: a personal choice or a workplace requirement? Well, to Maine’s top hospital group, the answer is a requirement.…
The primary finding of the study was that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality actually increased, not decreased.
The picture painted is one of working-class destruction.
On June 16, Gov. Mills announced the creation of a sweepstakes for Mainers who have received at least one dose…
Policymakers have, yet again, committed an act that is sorely ironic: they have stalled a review of their own strategy to tackle a pandemic, which will surely hamper lawmakers down the line come the next and inevitable contagious disease.
On June 11, Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced she was renewing the state of civil emergency, which was set to…
Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that at least 50% of Canadians have received at least one shot…
On Monday, May 24, nearly eight months after it was first ordered, Maine Gov. Janet Mills lifted the state’s universal face…
Last week, Heather Johnson, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD), announced on a monthly business community video…
In four of the last six weeks, Maine has led the nation in COVID-19 infection rate in nursing homes.
On Tuesday, Maine Governor Janet Mills joined President Joe Biden and a small group of US governors for a virtual…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins grilled US CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday during a Senate Health Committee hearing where…
It’s taken much longer than it should have but at last it seems to be happening: the lockdown paradigm is…
With each day that passes, the number of lives lost in COVID-19-related deaths continues to tragically grow. However, in a…
On Tuesday, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced that he will lift all business restrictions, except for mandating masks indoors (including…
For over a year well-to-do Americans have quite literally been “quarantining” packages shipped to them, and that were dropped off at…
On March 1, facing the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the world, the Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babis introduced…
On Wednesday afternoon, Maine’s Health and Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing on LD 1344, a department bill…
So-called “deaths of despair,” those involving drug abuse, alcohol, or suicide, have been the subject of numerous studies over the…
Since last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have used an obscure federal regulation to impose a nationwide moratorium on…
This month marks the one-year anniversary of when states and the federal government first declared states of emergency over the…
On March 11, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), a nearly $2 trillion spending…
On March 2, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was lifting all government restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of…
Over the last few weeks, a central pillar of pandemic-era decision making crumbled. The arbitrary measuring stick for defining whether…
President Biden just signed his sweeping $1.9 trillion spending package into law. Once this bill hits the books, total taxpayer…
Maybe you have noticed the rise in public incredulity toward the coronavirus narrative that you hear all day from the…
Governor Janet Mills updated Maine’s statewide vaccination plan Wednesday to make teachers and childcare providers, regardless of age, eligible for…
With thousands of schools still closed or partially closed across the country, millions of American families are struggling to find…
Last Friday, Democratic state senator John Mannion of New York called for an end to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s emergency powers. Mannion’s call…
On January 20, the World Health organization (WHO) issued an advisory for labs which process polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests…
After the start of the Covid pandemic, my local Harris Teeter grocery store in Montgomery County, Maryland made extensive changes,…
On Thursday night, Joe Biden rolled out a sweeping proposal for $1.9 trillion more in COVID-19 relief and stimulus spending. …
Since the first COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and distributed to states, people have…
2020 will be remembered for many things: COVID-19, nationwide riots, a divisive election. But the rise of pandemic lockdowns will…
New York lawmakers are mulling a bill that would allow the state to detain anyone carrying or suspected of carrying…
Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert who has played a leading role in advising the Trump administration on COVID-19, thinks…
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by researchers from the University of Florida…
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Coronavirus…
Echoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned city residents this week to prepare…
The Covid pandemic this year has profoundly transformed the relationship of government to American citizens. Constitutional leashes have been obliterated…
The basic problem with even a little bit of socialism is that, in order for socialist policy to work, it…
Since the beginning of the pandemic, businesses able to shift their employees to remote work have done so with varying…
Maine is mourning the loss of Spencer Smith, a 16-year-old sophomore at Brunswick High School who tragically took his life…
Maine Policy Institute has previously noted the potential pitfalls of relying on a single health authority, especially one subject to political consequences,…
Coronaviruses don’t get more deadly or dangerous after dark. Yet across the country, leaders are imposing new curfews on their residents…
A number of iconic Maine businesses have closed this year due to the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic…
Gov. Janet Mills announced on Thursday new, last-minute restrictions on businesses to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Maine. Starting…
As COVID-19 case counts rise across the United States and Europe, it is important to understand how we identify active…
Last week, Governor Janet Mills joined Maine Public to shed crocodile tears for frontline workers who have been put in…
Governor Janet Mills’ latest batch of doomsday rhetoric is an admission that her coronavirus narrative is falling apart. In describing…