AUGUSTA – State legislators on Monday will consider a proposal to give government employees $5 million in merit and longevity…
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AUGUSTA – The Maine State Workers’ Compensation Board announced Friday that rates will decrease by nearly 8 percent to 7.7…
Could we puhleeease stop abusing common English for political purposes? This week I read another opinion item by a progressive…
AUGUSTA – A labor union boss for the AFL-CIO Maine demonstrated an impoverished understanding of basic public policy on Wednesday…
Join The Maine Heritage Policy Center via livestream for an in-depth presentation and discussion about the recent report,What Does Bowdoin…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivered his third State of the State address Tuesday night, using the opportunity to…
Senate President Justin Alfond (D-Portland) delivered the Democratic address in a video released roughly 30 minutes before Gov. Paul LePage’s…
AUGUSTA – Democratic leaders threw bipartisanship and compromise by the wayside Monday night as they deceived their GOP colleagues into…
AUGUSTA – The Augusta-based Maine Health Access Foundation announced Wednesday it has given awards worth nearly $670,000 to liberal political…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) criticized U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud on Monday over the Democratic candidate for…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs Sunday during a pitched pre-Super Bowl interview.…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs Sunday during a pitched pre-Super Bowl interview.…
PORTLAND – The Portland Press Herald, a newspaper whose majority owner is one of the largest Democratic donors in the…
EASTPORT – Former Republican Senate President Kevin Raye reported Friday evening raising $102,604 in the fourth quarter of 2013 to…
AUGUSTA – The House of Representatives voted Thursday on a procedural measure related to a proposed amendment to the State…
Following The Maine Wire’s exclusive investigation into Maine’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash welfare program, liberal media pundits…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Here are some of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union Address Tuesday night. Here are some of…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s jobless rate dropped to 6.2 percent in the month of December, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL)…
Robyn Merrill of the Maine Equal Justice Partners attacked the LePage administration on Sunday, accusing the Republican governor of supporting…
“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that…
The Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) released Monday the first campaign video supporting Gov. Paul LePage’s reelection campaign. At a little…
Maine’s economy is beginning to show signs of relative competitiveness. After years of ranking dead last for business friendliness, the…
OAKLAND, Maine – Former Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin told reporters Monday he raised nearly $148,000 in the final quarter…
Sweetser, a non-profit social services agency and major Medicaid beneficiary, has received nearly $2.5 million from no-bid, sole-sourced contracts with…
The Bangor Daily News refused to publish the following letter to the editor regarding liberal blogger Amy Fried: It’s concerning…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a telephone interview on Friday that conservatives “have no place in…
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a telephone interview on Friday that conservatives “have no place in…
Maine Wire Editor Steve Robinson joined Howie Carr on Monday to recap his investigation into welfare abuse in Maine. Listen…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Angus King told CNN host Candy Crowley on Sunday that there has been a lack of…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Angus King told CNN host Candy Crowley on Sunday that there has been a lack of…
I was surprised to read in a recent op-ed column by state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) that federal dollars have…
I was surprised to read in a recent op-ed column by state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) that federal dollars have…
By Jonathan McKane — A tax in Maine has been repealed. After 10 years of paying for the Dirigo Health…
BELFAST, Maine – Blaine Richardson, candidate for Congress in Maine’s Second Congressional District, announced Monday morning that he is leaving…
AUGUSTA – The Wall Street Journal on Friday quoted a respected market research group as saying Maine is one of…
They may be on welfare, but that doesn’t stop them from vacationing. According to an analysis of the Temporary Assistance…
Maine’s welfare system is supposed to provide a social safety net for poor families, but an analysis of the Temporary…
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…