by Dean Scontras I find myself struck—though not particularly surprised—by the short reach of the recent “Congressional Insider Trading” bill.…
It’s a cliché that Americans love their cars, but there’s a group of our fellow countrymen who don’t. They’re called…
Editorial The idea that a high-level political figure could invest in a newspaper chain and not have an impact on…
WCSH and Maine Public Broadcasting had these reports on The Maine Heritage Policy Center’s blended learning conference last week:
This is the live stream video of MHPC’s Education Conference about Online Learning. Please be patient with the technology, this…
Today, in South Portland, national education experts and Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen will join The Maine Heritage Policy Center…
by Terrilyn Simpson A unanimous pro vote on the MSHA Accountability Bill in legislative committee on Thursday was a strong…
by Scott Moody Recently, the Sun Journal published an op-ed titled “Repealing Income Taxes Won’t Help State Economies” written by Carl Davis…
Chellie Pingree will not be running for the U.S. Senate. There was speculation after Angus King announced he would run…
by Terrilyn Simpson The much debated “Takings Bill” will be hammered out in round two of a legislative work session…
The legislative Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development postponed a work session this afternoon regarding LD 1778, the…
This weekend, The Maine Wire broke a story that Attorney General Bill Schneider had used Senator Olympia Snowe’s campaign email…
Newsguild.org, the website of the Newspaper Guild/ Communications Workers of America union, is reporting on the backroom dealings between MaineToday…
By Lucky Cambridge Political Prognosticator Unless you live under a rock, it is old news by now that Senator Olympia…
Just moments ago Eliot Cutler announced on his Facebook page that he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat…
By Terrilyn Simpson Review of a bill seeking more accountability from the Maine State Housing Authority halted when legislators faced…
Attorney General William Schneider just sent his campaign exploration announcement for U.S. Senate – to Olympia Snowe’s campaign email list.…
Now that the field for US Senate is starting to be fleshed out a bit, we’ve updated our poll. Vote…
by Pem Schaeffer Good Government: The impossible dream that never was and never will be? To found principles of government…
The MaineWire has learned that Rick Bennett, former Maine Senate President and Republican National Committeeman has taken papers out and…
Yesterday we blasted the Portland Press Herald for running coverage of Chellie Pingree without coming clean about the paper’s, and…
An acquaintance and I have had a recurring conversation over the years on the wisdom of conservatives’ support for Sen.…
Tom Bell, the head of the Portland Press Herald/ MaineToday Media labor union, is now covering the U.S. Senate race,…
According to sources, Peter Cianchette has taken his name out of the running for the U.S. senate race. Cianchette was…
Matt Gagnon at Pine Tree Politics has a great reality check of the pundit class on the Snowe senate seat…
by Terrilyn Simpson In response to a complaint State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin had failed to report several financial details on…
In light of yesterday’s announcement that Senator Olympia Snowe will not be seeking reelection, Donald Sussman’s recent purchase of an…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine State Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick is predicting a huge payback on the carbon offset project…
Senator Olympia Snowe has just shocked the Maine political world with the announcement that she will no longer seek reelection.…
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead I fell down to my feet and I saw…
Editorial The journalism community in Philadelphia is in an uproar right now. Hundreds of past and present editors and reporters…
by Terrilyn Simpson One of the stories Jay Martin tells when he speaks before groups is an account of a…
by Terrilyn Simpson In a hearing room with every seat filled and no standing room remaining, members of the public…
Following is a press release from The Maine Heritage Policy Center: MHPC Praises Legislature for Eliminating Dirigo Tax Increase MHPC…
by Terrilyn Simpson Elm Terrace, the housing project that catapulted the Maine State Housing Authority and Director Dale McCormick into media…
Maine State Housing Director Dale McCormick has entered into a deal with Chevrolet to sell carbon offset credits from the…
Homelessness is a problem often associated with bigger cities, but frequently overlooked in small, rural states like Maine. But the…
Editorial After revelations of millions of dollars in travel and ‘training’ expenses that included staff parties, gift cards, and tens…
Ever since horror director George Romero created “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, brain-eating zombies have had a grip…
by Terrilyn Simpson One Maine landowner has called LD 1810 “common sense legislation that brings much needed reform to help protect…
NOTE: This story has been corrected from the original. Travel spending has risen 37% in last five years, training has…
This article has been updated with new totals in the millions. Click here to read the latest. Documents obtained by…
by Terrilyn Simpson The two inspectors showed up on a day when she was taking a rare few hours off.…
by Terrilyn Simpson They’re self taught. They’ve traveled the world solving energy and engineering problems. They learned practical applications of…
The Maine State Housing Authority was scheduled to release expenditure data today to fulfill a Freedom of Access Act request…
Editorial In the fall of 2010, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree was facing political extinction. After raging from the floor of the…
The Portland Press Herald is reporting that Donald Sussman, billionaire husband of Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, has loaned the financially-troubled…
The Maine State Housing accountability bill, after churning its way through sponsorship, co-sponsorship, emergency status acceptance – so that it…
by Scott Moody In December, I released a study that showed raising taxes to cover the budget shortfall at the Department…
by Jason Savage Budgets are moral documents. By now, if you have followed the debate about Maine’s DHHS budget and welfare…
by Terrilyn Simpson A Maine town has taken General Assistance administration into their own hands – and has seen big…
Following is a press release from The Maine Heritage Policy Center: MHPC to GOP: TAX INCREASE IS UNACCEPTABLE Republicans Proposing…
Sunday’s Portland Press Herald editorial appeared to be a careful consideration of state policy, but a look behind the rhetoric…
by Scott Moody – a member of the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission Recently, the Maine Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission (CEFC) met to…
Editorial by Pem Schaeffer “F-Bomb” here, as in so many other contexts, means nothing more and nothing less than the…
by Terrilyn Simpson It was a gun threat against Maine Governor Paul LePage by an alleged violent offender. And yet,…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin has filed a formal response to an ethics charge, filed against him by…
A number of things are interesting about the recent (and unsuccessful, though apparently still continuing) campaign by the environmental Left…
by Terrilyn Simpson Supporters of the Maine State Housing accountability bill were obviously chagrined by the breaches in protocol allowed…
by Sam Adolphsen It was supposed to “get big money out of Maine politics.” Now, twelve years after it began, the Maine…
Editorial by John Frary Al Diamon informs us that his contacts in Maine’s media universe do not welcome the Maine…
by Terrilyn Simpson OPEGA has initiated a rapid response review of Maine State Housing Authority vendor expenditures following the release…
by Terrilyn Simpson The director of the Maine State Housing Authority has no accountability to the governor, the legislature or…
A study released this week by the Goldwater Institute details the crippling financial impact of public-sector unionization, and shows that…
I had the oddest feeling watching TV as Gov. Paul LePage entered the well of the Maine House of Representatives…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine Senator Debra Plowman walked into the lobby of the Maine State Housing Authority in Augusta recently…
by Pem Schaeffer Mitt Romney has been taking a furious wire brushing for his years of leadership at venture firm…
by Terrilyn Simpson It was hijinks and raucous theater — from the feigned insecurity of the security detail to Dale’s…
by David Crocker Where would we be without the mainstream media? You know, the folks who claim “multiple layers of…
Maine Housing Director Dale McCormick spent $15,000 in public funds on a theater group for prison inmates.
This week, Maine State Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick confirmed what many had suspected– that she was using her position…
Maine Housing Director Dale McCormick gave donations to a progressive political group called Maine Initiatives, run by a cadre of…
by Terrilyn Simpson Legislative protocol went out the window on one front in Augusta on Thursday but managed to firmly…
Last week we looked at what gloomy liberals thought would happen if President Obama lost in November, and found considerable…
*Update* According to Paul Violette’s attorney, the former MTA Director has pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge under a…
by Terrilyn Simpson George and Ric were on the air. And so was the husband of someone who worked for…
A story in today’s Portland Press Herald by Susan Cover quotes Maine Housing spokesperson Deborah Turcotte responding to yesterday’s story…
by Pem Schaeffer “Thou shalt not steal” is the eighth of the ten commandments God handed down to Moses. This…
by Sam Adolphsen What do social justice groups, professional DJs, massage therapists and luxury hotels have to do with affordable…
Chellie Pingree was Maine Senate Majority Leader when the Maine Clean Elections Act (MCEA) became law. Pingree has made a…
Maine’s had its fill of the clueless detachment and hypocrisy of newspaper editorial pages. That may be why this piece…
by Terrilyn Simpson The legislative bill aimed at holding the director of the Maine State Housing Authority accountable to the…
People who write about politics often assume an aura of certainty about future events that they wouldn’t be claiming if…
DEVELOPING: According to minutes from the Maine State Housing Authority’s board of commissioners meetings,the agency gave $1,000 non-performance-based bonuses to…
by Terrilyn Simpson The Maine State Housing Authority issued a report late Friday afternoon purported to be a straightforward, independent…
by Pem Schaeffer If you find the title perplexing, be patient; I will explain. It’s often said that ‘luck is…
Governor LePage’s proposed MaineCare cuts have the social services community in an uproar. And this makes sense – no one…
by Lance Dutson The hallmark of Portland Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz, for years, has been what used to be…
Maine State Representative Ryan Harmon (R- Palermo) joins host MD Harmon to discuss the legislature.
The Maine State Housing Authority released their report on the Avesta/Norway Section 8 inspection debacle late Friday. The big question…
“South of the Border, down Mexico way …” is a perfect song to lead into this column, if you understand…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine Senate President Kevin Raye (R-Perry) has kicked off the new year with a resolution to capture…
Tuesday afternoon, it came to our attention that our state house reporter, Leif Parsell, had, prior to working with us,…
What do prison theater classes have to do with affordable housing? As the state scrambles to replace millions in reduced…
by Terrilyn Simpson A bill to make the director of the Maine State Housing Authority accountable to the MSHA board…
by J Dwight Special to The Maine Wire It’s been a difficult time lately for the global-warming-believers at the Natural…
This is one of a series of profiles of political activists, businesses, and civic organizations in Maine. Gerald Weinand has…
by Scott Moody, Chief Economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center Maine’s tax system is so complicated and onerous, it can…
State Representative Rich Cebra (R-Naples) joins host MD Harmon to discuss the coming legislative session.