On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torrensen ruled that federal law prohibits Maine residents from buying prescription drugs from…
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On Friday, the Obama Administration admitted that approximately 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers have received incorrect tax forms. The administration is asking…
Representative Poliquin, whose vote this week against repealing Obamacare provoked backlash among grassroots conservatives, has worked to explain his controversial…
Patriots Win Super Bowl After a perfect fourth quarter drive and an end-zone interception in the final seconds of the…
Bruce Poliquin isn’t wasting any time getting his feet wet in Washington. Yesterday, at his first Financial Services Committee meeting,…
State of the City: Portland Edition Last night, Portland Mayor Michael Brennan delivered his state of the city address. Brennan…
2015 State of the Union Address In case you forgot, or chose not to watch because you have more productive…
Change in Maine Community Colleges Leadership Following statements by Governor LePage pressuring his resignation, John Fitzsimmons, the President of Maine…
Will LePage be Maine’s Next Senator? Despite remarks in an interview with radio talk show host Howie Carr, Governor LePage…
On Friday, Governor Paul R. LePage released his biennial budget. The highly anticipated budget includes significant changes to the state’s…
Okay, yesterday was a pretty busy day in Maine politics… let’s see if we can fit them all in here.…
Fairpoint Talks Resume On Sunday, Fairpoint Communications resumed negotiations with the union representing striking workers across New England. Neither side…
Fairpoint Wins Major Ruling In a tough ruling against the Fairpoint strikers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that…
Governor Appoints Education Commissioner Due to health concerns, Governor LePage has replaced Education Commissioner James Rier with historian Tom Desjardin. …
Petroleum Prices Persistently Plummet For anyone who’s had to fill their gas tank over the last several days, this won’t…
The argument against expanding government run health care in America just got a lot stronger – thanks to the unlikeliest…
Portland Looks to Regulate Uber In a desperate attempt to seem relevant, Portland officials are looking to regulate Uber, the…
Money Has Too Much Influence Except when it doesn’t. The final finance reports of the 2014 gubernatorial race show that…
Sony Hackers Threaten Theaters The individuals behind the Sony hack, who up to this point have released tons of private…
Grover Norquist, long considered by the left to be the dark marionette of conservative policymaking in America, and heralded as a…
Can’t Get Enough Cod Stories If you haven’t heard enough about the state of cod in the Gulf of Maine…
No Minimum Wage Increase for Portland…. Yet. After discussing a minimum wage increase in Portland last night, Portland’s Financial Committee…
Three Cheers for Integrity Check out MHPC CEO Matt Gagnon’s thoughtful piece up on his Pine Tree Politics blog about…
MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, the architect of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), was commissioned by the Maine Bureau of…
What Phantom Ballots? Yesterday, a special Senate committee investigating the Senate District 25 race between Republican Cathy Manchester and Democrat…
Protests in Portland Over the weekend, two protests were held in Portland over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.…
In a press release Monday, Maine Republican Party Chairman Richard Bennett responded to a chorus of liberal accusations of voter fraud…
Scallop Season is Open Maine’s scallop fishing season begins today. While the scallop stock has been recovering for years, officials with…
Unrest Continues Protests continued in Ferguson, Missouri last night over the results of a grand jury investigation into police officer…
Not Indicted Yesterday, a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on several charges, including the first-degree…
Is It Chilly in Here? The United States Department of Agriculture threatened to cut funding to Maine’s food stamp program over…
On Monday, the FBI released Crime in the United States, 2013, a report detailing the estimated crimes in the United States…
In the newest iteration of Forbes’ Best States for Business report, Maine ranked 49th—one place higher than last year. In…
You Can Come Out Now! Today marks the end of Kaci Hickox’s incubation period! Hickox has faced numerous threats of quarantine…
Last month, the non-partisan Tax Foundation released its 11th annual State Business Tax Climate Index. Maine received a below-average rank, coming in…
A group of medical professionals submitted a letter to Maine’s newspapers warning against Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s quarantine on nurse…
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting has produced an analysis of the top political donors in Maine, and Portland…
Conservative muckraker James O’Keefe has struck again, this time in North Carolina, where State House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican,…
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has released this year’s edition of his annual report on wasteful spending in the federal…
LEWISTON – A Lewiston Democrat and former Maine People’s Alliance co-chair has been caught falsely claiming that she is a…
At Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Democratic candidate, suggested U.S. policymakers should combat the the spread of the…
More than 3,000 Mainers are set to lose their current health insurance plans due to President Barack Obama’s unpopular and controversial…
Uber – the international ride-sharing company headquartered in California- has arrived in Maine. The company announced on last week that its…
The race for Maine’s Second Congressional District between state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) and Republican Bruce Poliquin is drawing national…
Maine’s top-rated pollster on Thursday released a new poll showing Republican Gov. Paul LePage leading the race for Maine governor…
PORTLAND – The three candidates in Maine’s hotly contested race for governor gathered Wednesday morning at Portland’s Holiday Inn by…
Mainers are familiar with S. Donald Sussman — the billionaire hedge fund manager whose largesse has propped up the liberal-leaning…
ORONO – First Lady Michelle Obama touted the health of the U.S. economy as she visited Maine on Friday to campaign…
The national unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in September as the percentage of Americans not in the workforce reached a 36-year…
Republican congressional candidate Bruce Poliquin on Thursday received the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the nation’s foremost Second Amendment advocacy group.…
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., released its 2014 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s…
PORTLAND – Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Shenna Bellows sought to tie incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins to Texas Republican…
Mark Twain said, “Don’t let school get in the way of my education.” This is profound. Consider the two issues:…
Nate Silver, polling aficionado for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight.com, published a comprehensive ranking of American polling houses last week. According to Silver’s…
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Naples, Florida-based think tank focused on developing state and national health care policy, on…
Senate President Justin Alfond (D-Portland) has taken more than $23,000 from taxpayers under Maine’s Clean Election Act — despite being…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Monday called upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to intervene in New England…
Contradiction: In a CBS “60 Minutes” interview, President Barack Obama admitted that his foreign policy plans in Syria were…
A new public opinion poll shows Republican Bruce Polquin leading Democrat state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) by 10 points in…
BANGOR – Maine Democrats on Friday drew attention to Republican state Senate candidate Cary Weston’s lawful campaign finance activities. The…
AUGUSTA – Maine Republicans expressed outrage Friday over campaign literature sponsored by the Maine Democratic Party that attacks Sen. Brian Langley…
AUGUSTA – The Democratic candidate running against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins told reporters at a Thursday press conference she…
AUGUSTA – On the same day opponents of Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage gathered at the State House to attack him…
In a surprising move, Eric Holder Jr. will step down as Attorney General, the White House announced Thursday. From NPR: Two…
For a few years now, I’ve been closely following and commenting on state and local level circumstances relating to the…
AUGUSTA – The administration of Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday released information regarding new welfare reforms and enforcement procedures. “In…
With all the talk of debates this year, we thought readers might be interested in watching a collection of previous…
The National Rifle Association has endorsed Republican Gov. Paul LePage in his reelection bid, the group announced on Tuesday. “Based…
Sen. Ann Haskell (D-Portland), assistant majority leader in the state senate, went on the George Hale and Ric Tyler radio…
When the Bangor Daily News published a story about Gov. Paul LePage’s vacation policy for political appointees, Democratic operatives thought…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following new developments in the Veterans Affairs health care corruption scandal, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the ranking…
In case you missed it, thousands of climate change activists gathered in New York City over the weekend to protest…
In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage called on the embattled head of America’s…
The Maine Democratic Party is issuing mailers on behalf of a Democratic state senator from Androscoggin County. The mailers tout…
The Washington Free Beacon has unearthed never-before-seen correspondence between the late left-wing radical Saul Alinsky and former First Lady Hillary…
The campaign for U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud,a Democrat, is in hot water after a supporter published a video that includes a…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, has abandoned plans to name a new high school after…
The Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group Judicial Watch has uncovered documents showing that senior officials with the federal Centers for Medicare…
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to…
The Maine GOP has released video of Sen. Eloise Vitelli (D-Bath) saying she supports providing tax-payer funded welfare benefits to…
By Ken Quinn — On September 17th our nation celebrates Constitution Day which is the date in 1787 that the delegates…
Advertisements from the Republican Governors Association are significantly affecting the race for Maine governor, causing a panic on the left…
In a secret recording released by the Maine GOP Tuesday morning, a Democratic state senator questions Democratic governor candidate Michael…
An ad released by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Saturday criticized Democratic Senate candidate Shenna Bellows for “flip-flopping” on a…
The biggest question this year on the national political landscape is whether Republicans can capture the U.S. Senate and further…
Ray Richardson, conservative radio show host for the LOB statewide Lobster Radio Network, has published this week a new book,…
Michael McKee reported in a Bloomberg TV segment that Maine internet speeds are drastically slower than in other parts of…
An “overwhelming” majority of Americans believe the U.S. is on the wrong track, according to a poll from George Washington…
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a 2007 email revealing that Lois Lerner, a former IRS official at the heart…
The Republican Governors Association has released a new ad criticizing Democratic candidate for governor U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud for his position on allowing illegal…
In his weekly address, Governor Paul R. LePage criticized Governor Deval Patrick on Thursday for backing out of a plan…
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins blasted President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday for stymieing public watchdogs throughout the federal government. “It…
Emails from the federal bureaucrat at the heart of the IRS corruption scandal do exist, according to government lawyers and the…
The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine (SAM) announced Thursday its unanimous decision not to endorse any candidates for Maine governor, U.S.…
Advocates for a big increase in the minimum wage say Maine’s poor will benefit, but some Maine small business owners…
A new advertisement from the Republican Governors Association (RGA) contrasts Gov. Paul LePage with “blow-dried” politicians. “Some people like their…
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime,” said Maine’s own poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. As a two term…
Following the controversial policing tactics employed in Ferguson, Mo., and heightened concern over the militarization of American police departments, the…
Gov. Paul LePage joins Maine Wire Editor Steve Robinson for the latest episode of The Robinson Report, a joint venture…
This week, a Portland task force will hear final discussions on Mayor Michael Brennan’s proposal to increase the city’s minimum…