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Every reasonable person would agree that transparent and accountable government is a good idea. When elected officials operate in secrecy,…
Cash welfare recipients in Maine may have spent portions of their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) allotment at bowling…
AUGUSTA – Campaign finance reports for the three major candidates for governor became public Thursday. Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael…
AUGUSTA – Campaign finance reports for the three major candidates for governor became public Thursday. Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael…
AUGUSTA – The Maine State Police issued 11,000 concealed weapon permits in 2013, Gov. Paul R. LePage announced Friday. “Through…
AUGUSTA – Supporters of religious freedom flooded the State House on Thursday to voice support for a Washington County Republican’s…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An official from the federal Centers on Medicare and Medicaid admitted at a House hearing on Thursday…
On January 15 the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) produced its “Review of Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in…
ELLSWORTH, Maine – A paid activist working on behalf of the liberal Maine People’s Alliance has been charged after she…
To the Editor: As I listened to some of the testimony on Medicaid expansion (LD 1578) today, a few…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its bipartisan report on the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist…
AUGUSTA – For the second time in the 126th Legislature, the Health and Human Services Committee held a public hearing…
AUGUSTA – Gary Alexander, founder and president of The Alexander Group, on Tuesday presented his report on a proposal to…
Maine Wire readers should be well aware that the most controversial policy issue at the State level this year is…
Mark Giangreco, my new friend at the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), just sent an e-mail urging me “to join Mike…
Mark Giangreco, my new friend at the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), just sent an e-mail urging me “to join Mike…
Are Maine’s cash welfare recipients gambling with taxpayer money? According to The Maine Wire’s investigation into the Temporary Assistance for…
Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage joined talk radio host Laura Ingraham to talk about welfare abuse in the Pine Tree…
AUGUSTA – Expanding eligibility for Maine’s medical welfare program, known as Medicaid or MaineCare, under the federal Affordable Care Act…
Maine welfare cash has been used at two amusement parks in Saco, according to Department of Health and Human Services…
On Thursday, The Maine Heritage Policy Center, which owns and operates The Maine Wire, made public three years’ worth of…
Maine Wire Editor Steve Robinson joined talk radio host Howie Carr on Tuesday to talk about his investigation into abuse…
AUBURN – Republican state senate candidate Eric Brakey announced Tuesday that his campaign has raised more than $21,000 in his…
AUGUSTA – Top Republicans reacted to The Maine Wire’s exclusive report on the scope of welfare abuse in Maine with…
“The reality is that we lack any systematic evidence that such “misuse” is widespread.” – Robert W. Glover, University of…
The battle lines have been drawn for the coming session of the Maine Legislature. In one corner stands the reigning…
Marie Doucette of Saco Who are these progressives? They are mostly Democrats with too many Republicans and Independents thrown in.…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree signed a letter last week urging her colleagues in the House of Representatives to give Bath…
Detroit police chief James Craig said Thursday his time serving on the force in Portland, Maine, in 2009 leads him…
Would expanding medical welfare reduce visits to the emergency room? A new study from Oregon says, No. The study, released…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP), a liberal think tank, is asking applicants for its latest job…
Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage will introduce welfare reform legislation in January that bears resemblance to sweeping reforms enacted in…
AUGUSTA – Top labor union officials announced Friday the merger of Maine’s two largest labor unions. The Maine State Employees…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s unemployment rate fell for the third consecutive month to 6.4 percent in the month of November –…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama decreed Thursday that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty shall not apply to…
The Maine People’s Alliance, a liberal advocacy group, claimed on Thursday that its latest robotic poll of 434 Mainers…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage said Tuesday that he plans to reintroduce two pieces of welfare reform Democrats…
By P. C. Poppycock, Maine Wire correspondent Giddy over the devastatingly successful introduction of Obamacare, Debbie Wasserman Schmaltz, Chair of…
The editors of the Portland Press Herald refused to publish the following response to an article which appeared in MaineToday…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King last week joined forces behind a bill that would exempt…
Transparency and accountability are core functions of government. Democracy does not equal self-government when elected officials can thwart routine journalistic…
By Pem Schaeffer and Stanley Ralph The introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as revealed by the roll-out of…
An Auburn Democrat is taking fire after the Maine Republican Party obtained an email rant he sent to various public…
The number of Mainers choosing Obamacare plans at the dysfunctional HealthCare.gov website is still well below expectations, according to a…
The top advocate for expanding medical welfare in Maine confirmed Tuesday that he has returned to his position with a…
U.S. Sen. Angus King has joined a Democratic “strike force” designed to help sell Obamacare to a public wary after…
A counselor working for the non-profit Sweetser has told House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) that she has witnessed…
The chief Democratic advocate for Medicaid expansion may have misrepresented his professional relationship with a private school that stands to…
Senate Minority Leader Michael Thibodeau (R-Waldo) will soon join the field of Republicans running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, a…
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Nov. 30 edition of MaineToday’s Media Kennebec Journal. The headline is…
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on Tuesday published its monthly State Coincident Index – a ranking of states’ economic…
PORTLAND – Two Portland lawmakers are looking to capitalize on voters’ short memories, claiming in taxpayer-funded mail pieces that it…
AUGUSTA – Having fun in Maine could become more expensive if the Legislature OKs a Democrat-controlled task force’s recommendation to…
The present conversation over Medicaid expansion, as witnessed daily in editorial pages and at the State House, is misleading because…
PORTLAND – A recently elected Portland City Councilor said Friday that if John F. Kennedy were alive today the former…
AUGUSTA – The Maine GOP announced Thursday a new youth outreach effort designed to showcase and promote “young rising stars”…
The U.S. Senate has a unique and longstanding tradition of open, unlimited debate. The Senate rules, when not circumvented, are…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s jobless rate hit 6.7 percent in the month of October—the rosiest unemployment picture the Pine Tree State…
Democratic candidate for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Sen. Emily Cain (D-Penobscot) launched her campaign’s first attack on two of her…
AUGUSTA – A proposal to turn abandoned state buildings into housing for homeless veterans of the U.S. armed services won…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) announced Thursday that 36 congressional candidates have made their “On the…
Maine Sen. Angus King joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Democrats Thursday to cast historic votes limiting…
AUGUSTA – Fixing Maine’s sprawling Department of Health and Human Services programs will fall on Gov. Paul LePage’s shoulders once…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud’s Nashville smear machine is working overtime. On Monday, the Democrat candidate for governor blasted Republican Gov.…
AUGUSTA – An Amherst Republican says he will make an appeal to the Legislative Council on Thursday regarding his bill…
The LePage administration announced Tuesday that it has contracted with an outside consulting firm to audit Maine’s welfare programs, including…
Ken Altschuler and Mike Violette, hosts of WGAN Morning News with Ken and Mike, grilled Senate President Justin Alfond Wednesday…
Democratic candidate for governor Rep. Michael Michaud attacked his Republican opponent on Monday over problems with Maine’s taxpayer-funded ride program…
The U.S. Census Bureau may have produced fraudulent job statistics in order to bolster President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election odds,…
President Obama’s rendition of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address does not include “under God.” As first reported by WMAL’s Chris…
President Barack Obama on Monday told a conference call of progressive community organizers that “more than 100 million Americans” have…
Blaine Richardson, a Republican candidate for Congress in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, announced Tuesday that he has been endorsed by…
Betsy Smith, former executive director of the gay advocacy group EqualityMaine, has endorsed unenrolled liberal Eliot Cutler in the governor’s…
Fresh off an overwhelming victory, Lewiston Mayor Robert MacDonald has endorsed former State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin in the Second District…
Maine’s highest-ranking Democrat lawmakers made a decision on Halloween Eve that distills and crystallizes everything Mainers loathe about the partisan politics…
Democratic Reps. Michael Michaud and Chellie Pingree voted Friday against legislation designed to ensure Americans can keep their old insurance…
President Barack Obama announced Thursday that his administration would not enforce key provisions of the Affordable Care Act that have…
The Obama administration has finally revealed how many people have picked health insurance plans through Obamacare’s dysfunctional HealthCare.gov exchanges –…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats have launched a campaign against Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage’s two-month old policy regarding communications between…
A Democratic polling firm’s survey of the 2014 gubernatorial race is garnering a moderate amount of attention in Maine. The…
AUGUSTA – Top Republicans said Tuesday that problems with President Obama’s signature health care law show the federal government’s promise…
Former President Bill Clinton said President Obama should let millions of Americans keep their health insurance — even if it…
A public university in Illinois bears a plaque stating that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat. According to TheCollegeFix.com, the plaque,…
James O’Keefe, investigative reporter with Project Veritas, is back with a must-watch report on Obamacare “navigators” in Texas. Watch as…
A growing group of state lawmakers from across the country are exploring ways to limit the power of the federal…
President Obama’s signature health care law is causing big shakeups in Maine’s individual and small group insurance markets. In the…
The Honorable William S. Cohen and Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) had a conversation at the Collins Center for the Arts…
Former Republican Senate President Kevin Raye released a poll Thursday night that shows the two-time contender for Maine’s 2nd Congressional…
From the Office of Governor LePage: AUGUSTA – On Monday, November 11, Maine and the entire Nation will celebrate and honor…
The towns of Cumberland, North Yarmouth and Yarmouth will join together to honor the 60th anniversary of the end of Korean…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democratic Party Chairman Ben Grant apologized on Thursday for remarks he made about Rep. Amy Volk (R-Scarborough)…
AUGUSTA – Amid the more than 300 bills the Democrat-controlled Legislative Council killed last month was a proposal from Rep.…
AUGUSTA – More than 400 supporters joined Republican Gov. Paul LePage at the Buker Community Center for his campaign kick-off…
Six Democrats on the Legislative Council voted on Oct. 30 to block a bill that would help victims of human…
AUGUSTA – Republican Party Chairman Rick Bennett on Tuesday called on his Democratic counterpart to apologize for sexist remarks the…
“Health care is a right, not a privilege.” How often have people heard that simplistic slogan fall from the lips…
The California company SolarCity estimates that it will install 1 million new rooftop projects in the next five years and…
Speaker of the House Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) offered an explanation on Friday as to why he and other…
