Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Benefits Authority announced Thursday that it will be holding a meeting next month…
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Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has responded to the Trump Administration’s effort to reverse course on the regulation of greenhouse…
Former fitness executive Ben Midgley announced his gubernatorial run in Kennebunkport on Tuesday, pledging to commit 100 percent of his…
As speculation grows over possible 2026 Democrat candidates for U.S. senator from Maine, one most-obvious name hardly ever comes up.…
As the Trump administration wages a war against foreign nationals daring to vote in American elections, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…
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When Washington, DC super-lawyer Marc Elias gleefully “threaded” a story about Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows telling the U.S.…
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A Texas-born former FBI agent has joined the crowd of Democrats seeking to become Maine’s next chief executive officer. Jason…
As the 2025 Fiscal Year came to a close last month, Maine’s General Fund turned out to have a $152.2…
Substandard repairs and a slow bureaucracy have caused U.S. Navy ships to sit in repair yards for years without being…
The group behind last fall’s ballot initiative placing new limits on Super PAC contributions has appealed a federal judge’s ruling…
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Fresh on the heels of blocking The Maine Wire from one of his “public” events, Democrat Senate hopeful Jordan Wood…
Anyone who thinks Augusta is woefully out-of-shape with ballooning state budgets and piddling performance on everything from the quality of…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined a coalition of twenty-one Democrat-led states in suing the Trump Administration over a…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) signed on to co-sponsor a Democrat-led bill late last month that would make it easier for…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced a contract awarded to Bath Iron Works on Thursday for the construction of a new…
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Update: After the publication of this article, the owner of Blaze Bangor, Matthew Haskell, spoke with The Maine Wire, informing…
Eric Small is not a typical politician. When he decided to run for Congress earlier this week, there was no…
Jordan Wood, a longtime Washington, D.C. staffer running as a Democrat to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) displayed the true…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has refused a request from the Trump Administration to turn over the state’s voter…
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) wants the U.S. government to suspend its assistance to Israel, America’s key ally in the…
A Republican state legislator who bravely sponsored bills to keep boys out of women’s sports and bathrooms quickly found out…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that the Trump Administration has agreed to release the rest of Maine’s public…
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A Phillips community activist played ‘Karen’ earlier this month and hectored Franklin County State Representative Michael Soboleski (R-Phillips) out of…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law prohibiting pharmacies from selling tobacco products beginning in April…
Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), a Somali immigrant and Maine politician, has garnered national attention in recent days after…
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Rising violent extremism linked to leftist and pro-Palestinian suspects in the U.S. flies in the face of legacy media narratives…
Excerpt from congressional report detailing Hunter Biden’s relationship with Chinese-communist linked corporations and agents. Photo of a business card Mervyn…
President Donald Trump (R) signed a bill Thursday eliminating $9 billion worth of already approved federal spending, including $1.1 billion…
The Trump Administration is aiming to drastically alter the way the U.S. deals with homelessness with a Thursday executive order…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) demanded the release of the Epstein files on Thursday as controversy mounts over President Donald Trump’s…
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ transition advisory team enlisted two Chinese intelligence-tied bankers who have fundraised for her and a…
Ever since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, the former comedian and current Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy…
A state representative from Hancock County responded on Wednesday to a new national report from CNBC that ranked Maine as…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has once again joined a coalition of states, this time in suing the federal Department…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is outraged that CBS has decided to cancel its failing “Late Show” hosted by leftist Stephen…
A non-citizen living in New Hampshire was arrested on Tuesday and faces charges for allegedly illegally voting in three elections…
Democrat Gov. Janet Mills naively picked a berry real fight hopping into a farmer’s field to promote blueberry weekend. When…
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Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed a bill into law earlier this month that expanded eligibility for free hospital care, raising…
A small group of Maine protestors set sail in kayaks and other small craft on Saturday, braving the roughly one…
About a year ago, disgraced former CIA director John Brennan was scheduled to give a talk in Damariscotta about ‘Navigating…
The Trump Administration is now expected to release $1.3 billion worth of federal funds for before- and after-school programming, multiple…
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Sunday that whistleblowers were coming forward since the release of documents and a…
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ approval rating has fallen amid a tense summer session where she repeatedly broke away from her party and President Donald Trump on multiple crucial votes. The results were released by Morning Consult as a part of its quarterly poll of senators’ approval ratings, and it shows the favorability of the longtime Maine
A group of ten Republican senators, including Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, have sent a letter to the Trump Administration…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has joined her counterparts in sixteen states in calling on Secretary of Education Linda McMahon…
The Trump Administration has delayed distributing $6.8 billion worth of federal funding for certain education programs it is currently reviewing…
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The United States Senate voted early Thursday morning to pass President Donald Trump’s (R) plan to cut $9 billion in…
Congressional Republicans have renewed calls to revoke the federal charter for the nation’s largest teachers union on the grounds that…
Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes, self-described socialist and former co-chair of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America, gave a speech at…
The United States Senate narrowly cleared the first procedural hurdle for President Donald Trump’s (R) plan to reverse $9.4 billion…
On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wolf permanently enjoined the State of Maine from enforcing the new limits on Super…
The same people who decry the role of money in politics — ie. the media — are often the same…
When the legacy media in Maine latches onto an idea, many who have been around the block more than once…
As part of a $4.5 million slate of upgrades, a new security fence currently being erected around the Blaine House…
Maine’s Democrat governor is touting her drug-overdose accomplishments amid growing public scrutiny on China’s invasion of the Pine Tree State.…
The Maine Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ wording of a citizens initiative requiring voters…
A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to…
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday to overturn the 2023 conviction of Douglass Mackey, known online as Ricky Vaughn, for…
A meeting of the seemingly very local Westbrook City Council Facilities and Streets Committee took a surprising turn on Monday…
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The United States Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing the Trump Administration’s “workforce optimization” initiatives to resume for the…
Paul LePage, former Maine Governor and current frontrunner for the hotly contested 2nd Congressional District (CD2) House seat occupied by…
New Maine Energy Law Promises Ratepayer Relief, but Instead Delivers Political Cover for Democrats in the 2026 Midterms. Maine’s ratepayers…
The Maine Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in the lawsuit challenging Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ wording of…
Auburn Republican Rep. Laurel Libby’s lawsuit against Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) has become moot after her…
Nearly 50 Maine Republican lawmakers on Monday sent a letter to the presidents of the Maine Community College System (MCCS)…
Republican candidate for Governor of Maine Robert “Bobby” Charles issued an early statement on Monday about his fundraising results for…
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JoAnna St. Germain, the Waterville teacher who made international headlines in May for her Facebook posts calling for President Donald…
Louis Sigel, a Kennebec County Democrat has submitted paperwork with the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) to challenge incumbent Congressman Jared…
After Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) professor Carol Lewandowski received significant backlash for providing unprofessional and discriminatory feedback to a…
Some House Democrats told Axios that their constituents have encouraged them to prepare for violence and “be willing to get…
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a national budget bill that includes many of the key policies of President…
Pretty unusual for a small Maine town to be educating the state’s governor – except if it’s the indigenous-deaf Janet…
A York Democrat’s bill to expand the administrative process behind Maine’s public school transfer program died between chambers after the…
A professor at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) attacked and discriminated against a Christian conservative student for writing an essay…
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) sputtered his way through a Tuesday end-of-session interview with Matt Gagnon on WGAN, in…
There is no polite way to say this: Democrat income tax increases, which the Maine’s legislature passed in the eleventh…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) will avoid making a decision on the controversial sanctuary state bill that passed through the legislature,…
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The Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” reconciliation spending package on Tuesday with a tie breaking vote…
Like the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, ths majority of blue state Mainers told pollsters they do not want the…
Socialist Portland City Councilor Wes Pelletier on Sunday gave a speech at an event in Monument Square in which he…
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Thirty-seven year-old allegations of cocaine abuse have returned to haunt Maine Gov. Janet Mills thanks to a resurfaced U.S. Department…
A retired Special Forces surgeon who earned his medical degree in Maine is running for Texas governor – and vowing…
The Maine Legislature has yet to make a final decision on the proposal requiring the Maine Department of Health and…
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino vowed to crack down on government corruption and root out Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence…
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Senate Appropriation Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) supported a motion Saturday night to advance President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” towards…
Probably the most likable candidate for governor of Maine last time won less than two percent of the vote. Sam…