Attorney General Aaron Frey admitted Wednesday to having a “personal relationship” with a subordinate employee at the Attorney General’s Office,…
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Most Mainers have probably never heard of Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss. The dark money groups influencing Maine politics would probably…
Sen. Craig Hickman (D-Kennebec) has proposed legislation that would create two state programs to encourage young African-Americans born in Maine…
The Education and Cultural Affairs Committee filled two overflow rooms Monday morning as Mainers turned out to voice their opposition…
Did Gov. Janet Mills and legislative Democrats “nudge” the partisan budget into law last week? That’s how the headline writers…
Gun rights advocates from across the state of Maine gathered Monday at the State House in Augusta to voice their…
With apologies to the Bard, there’s something rotten in Augusta. This is my fifth legislative session in the start of…
As expected, Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed the $9.9 billion biennial budget Democratic lawmakers approved late Thursday night, saying…
The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs will hold public hearings on six bills aimed at reinstating religious…
Russia has now placed itself on a short list of rogue states, a list that includes belligerent nations like North…
A Falmouth public school teacher lectured a Falmouth Elementary School (FES) student for failing to use the preferred pronouns of…
AUGUSTA, ME – On Monday, April 3rd, a coalition of gun rights groups and activists will be hosting a rally…
Democratic lawmakers at the State House approved a plan on Thursday to spend $9.9 billion on Maine state government for…
Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury in connection to the hush money payment he…
Maine’s largest network of print and online publications, including the liberal Portland Press Herald and affiliated papers, may soon be…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on March 29, 2023 Secretary Deb Haaland of the U.S. Department of…
The Daily Caller Foundation – Katelynn Richardson on March 30, 2023 Lawsuits from landowners and fishing groups threaten to undermine the…
Maine has the third highest tax burden of all 50 states. That’s according to a new survey of 2023 tax…
The top Republican in the House of Representatives is calling on Maine Education Commissioner Pender Makin to explain what she…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s Ric Tyler on Wednesday morning to cover a host of topics in Maine…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on March 29, 2023 Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear let a bill…
The high cost of electricity in Maine has claimed another victim, at least in the short term. Nine Dragons Paper…
A legal challenge filed on behalf of Mainers who lost their jobs as a result of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate…
City Councilors in South Portland think banning gasoline-powered lawnmowers could be the ticket to Maine’s environmental salvation. At a council…
The Maine Department of Education made an error that has resulted in an extra $3.6 million for the Portland School…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Jennie Taer on March 28, 2023 Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accused Canada of wanting…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Trevor Schakohl on March 28, 2023 Attorney General Merrick Garland would not pledge Tuesday to launch…
Budget negotiations in Augusta deteriorated further on Tuesday with the top Senate Democrat making a series of claims during a…
Nashville Police have released body cam footage less than 24 hours after a 28-year-old ex-student murdered six students and staff…
Rep. Lucas Lanigan (R-Sanford) said Monday that there will be a public hearing Tuesday afternoon on his tax relief bill…
Rep. Gary Drinkwater (R-Milford) wants to bring back a provision of Maine law that allows employees at health care facilities…
Democratic lawmakers have rejected a Republican proposal to reduce taxes for low-income Mainers, setting the stage for a one-party budget…
A Maine State Senator said Thursday lawmakers need to increase taxes on wealthy Mainers. “We need to tax the wealthy…
Union officials and activists were giddy Wednesday at the news that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) would begin remotely…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on March 23, 2023 Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed cutting routes for…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Laurel Duggan on March 22, 2023 Major American media outlets that receive funding from TikTok have…
The Maine Attorney General’s office issued a warning Thursday about an ongoing online scam involving the fraudulent sale of used…
A public hearing will be held Thursday to discuss a bill aimed at providing financial support to the Maine Lobstermen’s…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined PJ Media’s Megan Fox this week to discuss Maine’s education system and recent Maine…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on March 22, 2023 The Federal Reserve hiked its target federal-funds interest rate…
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is demanding that politicians and political committees that received donations…
On Monday morning, the Cultural Alliance of Maine, a group purporting to represent “culture workers” in Maine, had a Zoom…
Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York) has introduced a bill that would require candidates who receive taxpayer funding for the state election…
UPDATE: Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that the grand jury vote that could potentially lead to an indictment for former…
The Judiciary Committee of the Maine State Legislature held a hearing Tuesday on a bill that would clarify that public…
Rep. Ed Polewarczyk (R-Wiscasset) announced Tuesday that his bill to repeal Maine’s ranked-choice voting law will have a Public Hearing…
Maine lawmakers will soon decide the fate of a proposal that would require a formal declaration of war from the…
A transparency and accountability revolution could be coming to Maine’s public schools if a proposal backed by several lawmakers on…
The 19th installment of the Twitter Files courtesy of independent journalist Matt Taibbi came out Friday. The new information expands…
The mainstream media — the same guys who once hyperventilated about President Donald Trump getting two scoops of ice cream…
The hatred of Jews that led to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany is similar to the frustrations expressed by parents…
A Connecticut State Representative has lost her committee assignments Friday after she was arrested for crashing her car in what…
Several media reports surfaced this week claiming that “researchers” had discovered new evidence that the COVID-19 virus did not, in…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Jason Cohen on March 17, 2023 SVB Financial Group, the parent company for California tech lender…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Micaela Burrow on March 16, 2023 Department of Defense (DOD) medical providers in Europe are stepping…
Deering High School “co-principals” Alyson Dame and Dr. Jake Giessman emailed the Deering High School mailing list Wednesday regarding the…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on March 15, 2023 Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz testified Wednesday that the…
Disgraced actor Jussie Smollett caused an international scandal when he claimed in 2019 to have been assaulted in a vicious…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Jason Cohen on March 15, 2023 A women’s college in Massachusetts announced it will not revise…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Philip Lenczycki on March 15, 2023 Seven Republican Senators voted on Wednesday to confirm Eric Garcetti,…
In a speech Monday concerning the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), President Joe Biden praised the health of the…
Several groups representing Maine’s iconic lobster fishing industry announced Wednesday they have filed a defamation lawsuit against an environmentalist non-profit…
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa continue to arrive in southern Maine, with many of them crossing the southern border as part…
The White House on Tuesday announced new executive measures to regulate the level of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) permissible…
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he will sign an Executive Order on Tuesday that mostly calls on government officials to…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has asked for $5,000 in fees before it will turn over…
Inflation rose by 0.4 percent for February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. “Over the last 12 months, the…
Two Republican lawmakers are looking to bring nuclear power back to Maine. Reps. Mark Walker (R-Baldwin) and Richard Campbell (R-Orrington)…
Democratic lawmakers are looking to crackdown on Maine’s pro-life pregnancy centers. The push for greater scrutiny on pro-life centers comes…
Maine’s unemployment rate dropped to below 3 percent for January, which would be stellar economic news for the state but…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on March 13, 2023 Fox News host Tucker Carlson questioned what the federal…
(This article was originally posted at Maine Policy Institute’s Pine Tree Beat. Click here to access more of MPI’s policy…
Journalist Matt Taibbi was in front of a congressional committee last week to answer questions about his ongoing reporting on…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on March 12, 2023 Adolescents with autism are overrepresented in the youth transgender…
Young Americans for Liberty, a conservative-libertarian student organization with hundreds of members in Maine, and 45 Republican lawmakers successfully convinced…
The Maine State Legislature continued Thursday to debate a symbolic resolution supporting continued U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s war with Russia,…
The Daily Caller News Foundation Harold Hutchison on March 9, 2023 Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Democratic Rep. Daniel…
Two Maine moms say agents from Maine’s troubled child welfare agency paid them visits just days after they complained about…
Daily Caller News Foundation Mary Lou Masters on March 8, 2023 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is down 41 percentage points in…
Rep. Marc Malon, II (D-Biddeford) wasn’t happy with his Republican colleagues who expressed skepticism of the symbolic resolution the House…
Ever since the COVID-19 shutdowns led to Maine parents gaining greater awareness of what kids are learning in school, parental…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on March 6, 2023 Residents living in an area of the northern border…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Katelynn Richardson on March 6, 2023 The New York State Unified Court System (UCS) must…
The Maine State Employees Association announced Friday that it had filed a prohibited practices labor complaint against Democratic Gov. Janet…
If you miss the payments on your Ford F-150, Ford may soon be able to deactivate your ride with the…
A Maine Wire / Co/Efficient poll conducted this week shows that most Maine voters want schools to get back to…
The question of whether school employees should inform parents and legal guardians when a student requests to transition gender or…
The MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, Maine’s second largest labor union, announced Friday that it has filed a prohibited practices labor complaint…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Alexa Schwerha on March 3, 2023 The Texas A&M University System announced Thursday it will…
The Maine CDC has quietly discontinued the public presentation of breakthrough data — that is, information which shows how often…
The majority of likely voters in Maine want Maine’s public schools to focus more on math, reading, and writing than…
Unlike its twin in Georgia, Augusta, Maine doesn’t have a literal swamp. But an increasing number of Mainers are concerned it’s…
When a senior congressman from a land-locked state in the American West drops a bill pertaining to the Atlantic right…
At a raucous school board meeting Wednesday night, nearly 100 parents expressed their frustration and anger over how the Windham…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on March 1, 2023 Editor’s note: This article has been updated to…
State lawmakers will soon consider a proposal to bring back parole for Maine’s incarcerated population, along with a handful of…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on March 1, 2023 A New York teacher allegedly made a 9-year-old girl…
You can put away your tin-foil hat now, the public service announcement advised. Those things we told you were ‘conspiracy…
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot failed to make the run-off in the second city’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, limiting her to one term…
The federal Department of Education (DOE) is threatening to withhold money from Maine’s Department of Education (MDE) due to the…