U.S. Sen. Angus S. King, Jr., an unenrolled Democrat, is the only freshman U.S. senator that has not formed a…
Courtesy of ZeroHedge.com, here are 25 remarkable facts about Detroit: 1) At this point, the city of Detroit owes money to more…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage is touting the latest unemployment figures, which show Maine’s number of jobless at…
Maine’s legislature passed its two-year budget earlier this month, and it includes two allegedly temporary tax increases—one in the state sales tax…
We have just concluded the first legislative session in Augusta since Democrats retook the majority from Republicans who held it…
As many Americans contemplate the depressing fact that we are only six months into President Obama’s second term, with its…
The town of Deer Trail, Colorado is considering providing hunting licenses — and even cash bounties — for residents who…
House Majority Leader Seth A. Berry (D-Bowdoinham) and Assistant Majority Leader Jeff M. McCabe (D-Skowhegan), both of whom ran taxpayer-funded…
BANGOR – The Bangor Daily News published a July 5 letter to the editor that criticized an environmentalist non-profit…
In what is becoming de rigueur for newspapers owned by S. Donald Sussman and U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, the Portland Press…
With its bloated welfare roles and generous provision of jobless benefits, Maine is seen by many as the ultimate Nanny…
PORTLAND – Portland Public Schools officials are disputing Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s claims that the city’s high schools restrict uniformed…
Hello, this is Governor Paul LePage. (Click here for audio) Playing politics is easy; governing effectively is hard. As Chief…
How did the second-degree murder trial of so-called “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman for the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin…
ReasonTV’s Nick Gillespie explains the top three reasons Social Security is in need of immediate reform.
AUGUSTA – Republicans and Democrats across the state are squabbling over Gov. Paul LePage’s record number of vetoes in the…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Republican Party is calling on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael Michaud to denounce Democratic lawmakers for their…
AUGUSTA – Democrats in the Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday defeated a proposal that would have ensured the nation’s…
BATH – A Democratic candidate running in a special election to replace Senate Majority Leader Seth Goodall (D-Sagadahoc) in Senate…
From the Office of the House Republicans AUGUSTA – In a surprise turn of events Tuesday, several House Democrats flipped their votes on…
AUGUSTA – House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette (R-Newport) said in a statement on Tuesday that Democrats were jeopardizing the $100…
In choosing not to accept the federal Medicaid expansion, Gov. Paul LePage and key legislators in Augusta have acted prudently.…
The Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA) has posted petitions to “Stop the LePage Agenda” in every political website I regularly read,…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Wednesday said President Barack Obama’s decision to delay the Affordable Care Act’s…
Being a conservative in Maine, at least in my experience, has involved enduring a fraught relationship with the state Republican…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul LePage released a video on Thursday explaining why he could not support the Legislature’s two-year…
Can the Obama administration rewrite the laws of physics? Of course it can’t, but it can pass laws and regulations…
More than 60 organizations in 35 states, including 11 national groups, on Sunday began a week-long campaign to inform union…
AUGUSTA – The Maine State Legislature on Wednesday voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the $6.3 billion legislative…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Monday officially vetoed the Legislature’s proposed budget for the next two years, citing…
BATH – A Republican contender to become the next state senator from Sagadahoc County has emerged following a top Democrat’s…
“I am not opposed to all wars. I am opposed to dumb wars.” — Barack Obama, in The New Yorker,…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage announced Thursday that he intends to veto the Legislature’s budget proposal and called…
The Bangor Daily News published an editorial on Monday that urged the Maine Legislature to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto…
AUGUSTA – The Maine House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to sustain Gov. Paul R. LePage’s veto of the controversial…
By Paul Blair — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has friends in Portland, Maine. They’ve taken his call to impose government…
AUGUSTA – Reporters from three of Maine’s largest newspapers will no longer have access to Gov. Paul LePage or his…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Paul R. LePage on Tuesday applauded a regional effort that seeks to bring Canada’s competitively priced…
Snowmobile registration fee hike just one in series of recent increases on Mainers AUGUSTA – The Maine House of Representatives…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature voted on Monday to enact legislation intended to repeal Republican-backed health insurance reform known as…
AUGUSTA – On Thursday night, the Maine Senate voted 23-12 to pass a bill that would expand Maine’s Medicaid program…
By Pierre Lemieux – The history of New England and Québec have been intertwined through wars, commerce, culture, and migrations.…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Legislature on Thursday night gave final approval to a controversial $6.3 billion budget for 2014-15 that…
“I’m a U.K. citizen hoping soon to become a U.S. citizen, a lifelong admirer of the American project and its…
AUGUSTA – On Wednesday, the Maine House of Representatives reaffirmed that taxpayer dollars can be used to pay for politicians’…
AUGUSTA – Democrats in the Maine House of Representatives voted Monday to enact a bill that would raise by 15…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Ethics Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into the lobbying activities of the Maine State Director…
By Pem Schaeffer — Dr. Thomas Sowell, the prolific scholar and author at the Hoover Institution, sometimes writes columns he calls…
AUGUSTA – Great Schools for ME, a project of the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC), on Monday released a set…
By Rep. Lawrence E. Lockman (R-Amherst) For compelling evidence that Maine’s public schools are long overdue for an overhaul, check…
The Politico website has noted that there is a Republican governor giving Democrats fits who isn’t named Paul LePage. It’s…
AUGUSTA – Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday delivered a set of recommendations to the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee as it enters the…
From the House Republican Office GOP rallies to convince Dems to vote for bills to ensure recruiter access to schools…
By Julie Norsworthy On Friday May 17th my sons and I entered the Cross building for our first experience in the…
The Washington D.C.-based Heritage Foundation’s Daren Bakst reports that the agriculture bill currently under debate in the nation’s capital has…
WESTBROOK, Maine – The Westbrook schools have hired an attorney to help navigate a legal dispute with an equipment consultant…
House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) has been the driving force behind the Maine Democrat’s relentless campaign to expand…
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us…
AUGUSTA – Democratic lawmakers announced on Wednesday an alternative to Gov. Paul LePage’s five month old budget proposal that includes…
UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned that a member of the Messalonskee Middle School “Leadership Team” – a group of…
Maine could face a drastic surge in Medicaid spending for long-term medical care if nothing is done to address a…
WATERBORO, Maine – Training, Education, and Accountability in Christian Homes (T.E.A.C.H.), a Waterboro-based group of York County families who home…
The lone dissenting voice on the five-member Commission to Study the Conduct of Elections in Maine has warned state officials…
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on Thursday released the 6th edition of Rich States, Poor States – a comprehensive…
All the flapping, squawking and screeching that greeted the LePage administration’s “letter-grade” ranks for Maine public schools was intensified earlier…
AUGUSTA – Scripted chants filled the air Wednesday as activists from the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) and the Maine…
AUGUSTA – In a late night session of the Maine House of Representatives, state lawmakers clung mostly to party lines…
“Stop Paul LePage’s Agenda! Governor Paul LePage’s extreme policies have hurt Mainers. During his term as Governor, Paul LePage increased…
AUGUSTA – Sen. Dawn Hill (D-York), chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, refused to allow…
Tax economist and CEO of The Maine Heritage Policy Center J. Scott Moody testified Wednesday before the Rhode Island House…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday delivered a letter to to Democratic leaders challenging their decision to merge payment of…
AUGUSTA – Top lawmakers on the so-called Gang of Eleven said Friday during a work session of the Legislature’s Taxation…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal agency in Washington. It is absolutely essential…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats, led by Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Portland) and House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick)…
AUGUSTA – The Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted Wednesday against limiting Medicaid coverage of methadone and suboxone treatments,…
AUGUSTA – Democratic infighting continued at the State House on Wednesday as members of the Health and Human Services (HHS)…
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to be denied.” — Justice John Marshall, in…
Here, I’d like to discuss the so-called Gang of Eleven’s LD 1496, designated “An Act to Modernize and Simplify the…
The Mercatus Center, a project of George Mason University, has released a new video analyzing the expansion of states’ Medicaid…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Friday it had targeted conservative groups for more thorough scrutiny during the 2012…
Watch the viral video of the Maine Democrats staging a press conference to attack Gov. Paul LePage, but failing spectacularly:…
YORK – He totaled a company van and subsequently failed a drug test, but according to workers at the Maine…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Monday met with representatives from the Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) to…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday called on President Barack Obama to apologize for the Internal Revenue Service’s politically-motivated…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Saturday used his weekly radio address to once again call for action on…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Friday continued to roll out his education reform initiatives, releasing a pair of…
AUGUSTA – In a surprise move, House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) ordered Democrats on the Legislature’s Health and…
AUGUSTA – The Gang of Eleven defended its controversial tax overhaul on Friday during a packed public hearing of the…
Maine is the 6th worst place to retire, according to a study produced by Bankrate.com that considered a host of…
AUGUSTA –The Environment and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday considered a resolve that would spend $500,000 over four years to…
AUGUSTA – The Gang of Eleven’s tax plan is only one week old, but supporters say the version that emerges…
AUGUSTA – Top Democrats refuse to say how long the Party has been working on their school evaluation system or…
U.S. Sen. Angus S. King Jr. (U-Maine) has obtained the services of NGP Van, Inc. — the same Washington, D.C.-based…
AUGUSTA – A top Democratic committee chair on Tuesday came out in opposition to the decision of Senate President Justin…
AUGUSTA – Maine taxpayers rallied at the State House on Tuesday in support of economic freedom. Despite multiple advanced notices,…
When a proposed law is drafted for consideration by the Maine Legislature, it has to carry a “fiscal note” citing…
AUGUSTA – Liberty-minded Mainers gathered at the State House Tuesday for an Economic Freedom Rally featuring speakers from The Maine…
Renowned tax reform crusader Grover Norquist, president of the Washington, D.C.-based Americans for Tax Reform, said Monday that the tax…
AUGUSTA – State Democratic leaders have suspended a rule providing for transparency in the proceedings of the Legislature. Senate President…
Somehow, it’s appropriate that a multibillion-dollar slam-bang government porkfest in which tens of thousands of undeserving claimants and their lawyers…