Representative Poliquin, whose vote this week against repealing Obamacare provoked backlash among grassroots conservatives, has worked to explain his controversial…
Tell me if you’ve heard this one. A self-identifying progressive city, a home to a vibrant community of artists and…
Patriots Win Super Bowl After a perfect fourth quarter drive and an end-zone interception in the final seconds of the…
Bruce Poliquin isn’t wasting any time getting his feet wet in Washington. Yesterday, at his first Financial Services Committee meeting,…
Liberals in Maine and Washington, D.C. are suffering a new psychological condition, one that started very recently, in November. Symptoms…
State of the City: Portland Edition Last night, Portland Mayor Michael Brennan delivered his state of the city address. Brennan…
2015 State of the Union Address In case you forgot, or chose not to watch because you have more productive…
Well, not so much. The Obama Administration last week through the EPA issued the 2nd punch into the oil and gas…
Change in Maine Community Colleges Leadership Following statements by Governor LePage pressuring his resignation, John Fitzsimmons, the President of Maine…
Will LePage be Maine’s Next Senator? Despite remarks in an interview with radio talk show host Howie Carr, Governor LePage…
On Friday, Governor Paul R. LePage released his biennial budget. The highly anticipated budget includes significant changes to the state’s…
Okay, yesterday was a pretty busy day in Maine politics… let’s see if we can fit them all in here.…
Fairpoint Talks Resume On Sunday, Fairpoint Communications resumed negotiations with the union representing striking workers across New England. Neither side…
At its best, research can be the backbone of policymaking. It can provide the numbers that illuminate problems for lawmakers…
Fairpoint Wins Major Ruling In a tough ruling against the Fairpoint strikers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that…
Governor Appoints Education Commissioner Due to health concerns, Governor LePage has replaced Education Commissioner James Rier with historian Tom Desjardin. …
Petroleum Prices Persistently Plummet For anyone who’s had to fill their gas tank over the last several days, this won’t…
The argument against expanding government run health care in America just got a lot stronger – thanks to the unlikeliest…
Nearly everyone knows that innovation, competition, and development are needed to bring Maine into the 21st century – but apparently…
Portland Looks to Regulate Uber In a desperate attempt to seem relevant, Portland officials are looking to regulate Uber, the…
Money Has Too Much Influence Except when it doesn’t. The final finance reports of the 2014 gubernatorial race show that…
Sony Hackers Threaten Theaters The individuals behind the Sony hack, who up to this point have released tons of private…
Grover Norquist, long considered by the left to be the dark marionette of conservative policymaking in America, and heralded as a…
Can’t Get Enough Cod Stories If you haven’t heard enough about the state of cod in the Gulf of Maine…
No Minimum Wage Increase for Portland…. Yet. After discussing a minimum wage increase in Portland last night, Portland’s Financial Committee…
Three Cheers for Integrity Check out MHPC CEO Matt Gagnon’s thoughtful piece up on his Pine Tree Politics blog about…
MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, the architect of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), was commissioned by the Maine Bureau of…
What Phantom Ballots? Yesterday, a special Senate committee investigating the Senate District 25 race between Republican Cathy Manchester and Democrat…
Protests in Portland Over the weekend, two protests were held in Portland over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.…
In a press release Monday, Maine Republican Party Chairman Richard Bennett responded to a chorus of liberal accusations of voter fraud…
Scallop Season is Open Maine’s scallop fishing season begins today. While the scallop stock has been recovering for years, officials with…
Unrest Continues Protests continued in Ferguson, Missouri last night over the results of a grand jury investigation into police officer…
Not Indicted Yesterday, a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on several charges, including the first-degree…
There is no denying that the low wages earned by Maine people are a major concern for state policy makers.…
Is It Chilly in Here? The United States Department of Agriculture threatened to cut funding to Maine’s food stamp program over…
With Falmouth considering a ban or fee on plastic bags, it’s important to look at the facts instead of being…
On Monday, the FBI released Crime in the United States, 2013, a report detailing the estimated crimes in the United States…
In the newest iteration of Forbes’ Best States for Business report, Maine ranked 49th—one place higher than last year. In…
You Can Come Out Now! Today marks the end of Kaci Hickox’s incubation period! Hickox has faced numerous threats of quarantine…
Now that the elections are over and all the negative TV ads are gone we can all breathe a big…
Last month, the non-partisan Tax Foundation released its 11th annual State Business Tax Climate Index. Maine received a below-average rank, coming in…
A group of medical professionals submitted a letter to Maine’s newspapers warning against Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s quarantine on nurse…
The Precautionary Principle has been used by progressive environmental and public health advocates to justify climate change, energy, food and…
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting has produced an analysis of the top political donors in Maine, and Portland…
Conservative muckraker James O’Keefe has struck again, this time in North Carolina, where State House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican,…
Monday marked the 50th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s famous speech, “A Time for Choosing,” delivered on October 27, 1964,…
Who was it that said election time is ‘silly season?’ For years I’ve rolled with that description, but more and…
Public education is getting a 21st Century shake-up. Back in September, Maine’s very first virtual charter school, Maine Connections Academy,…
Every election year Mainers can count on a handful of desperate political campaigns that rely on confusion and deception in…
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn has released this year’s edition of his annual report on wasteful spending in the federal…
In my previous article Why Elections Cannot Fix Washington D.C., I demonstrated that amendments are superior to elections in solving…
Mike Tipping is communication director of the Maine Peoples Alliance (MPA). As such, his primary mission is to expose Paul…
LEWISTON – A Lewiston Democrat and former Maine People’s Alliance co-chair has been caught falsely claiming that she is a…
A powerful coalition of environmentalists and crony capitalists have engaged the American people in a confidence game called Climate Change.…
At Wednesday’s gubernatorial debate, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Democratic candidate, suggested U.S. policymakers should combat the the spread of the…
There are plenty of differences between the Maine gubernatorial candidates this election. Whether it concerns tax, labor, business or welfare…
More than 3,000 Mainers are set to lose their current health insurance plans due to President Barack Obama’s unpopular and controversial…
Bangor Daily News blogger Chris Shorr on Thursday published an outlandish and illogical attack against Uber, an innovative ride-sharing service…
Uber – the international ride-sharing company headquartered in California- has arrived in Maine. The company announced on last week that its…
The race for Maine’s Second Congressional District between state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) and Republican Bruce Poliquin is drawing national…
Maine’s top-rated pollster on Thursday released a new poll showing Republican Gov. Paul LePage leading the race for Maine governor…
On October 1, 2013, Mainers felt the sting of a 10 percent increase in the sales tax to 5.5 percent…
PORTLAND – The three candidates in Maine’s hotly contested race for governor gathered Wednesday morning at Portland’s Holiday Inn by…
Mainers are familiar with S. Donald Sussman — the billionaire hedge fund manager whose largesse has propped up the liberal-leaning…
ORONO – First Lady Michelle Obama touted the health of the U.S. economy as she visited Maine on Friday to campaign…
As our nation continues to spiral out of control and those we elected to Congress continue to ignore their responsibilities…
The national unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in September as the percentage of Americans not in the workforce reached a 36-year…
Republican congressional candidate Bruce Poliquin on Thursday received the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, the nation’s foremost Second Amendment advocacy group.…
Portland Press Herald columnist Alan Caron says Republican Gov. Paul LePage isn’t the worst governor in Maine’s history, but he’s…
The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., released its 2014 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s…
Author’s note: A previous version of this column appeared in the Portland Press Herald We’ve heard the term “embarrassing” used…
This November we have an enormously important issue coming via Citizens Referendum regarding our ability to keep our black bear…
PORTLAND – Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Shenna Bellows sought to tie incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins to Texas Republican…
A top union boss spoke out in favor of Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud’s gubernatorial campaign on Wednesday as media…
Mark Twain said, “Don’t let school get in the way of my education.” This is profound. Consider the two issues:…
Nate Silver, polling aficionado for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight.com, published a comprehensive ranking of American polling houses last week. According to Silver’s…
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Naples, Florida-based think tank focused on developing state and national health care policy, on…
Senate President Justin Alfond (D-Portland) has taken more than $23,000 from taxpayers under Maine’s Clean Election Act — despite being…
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul R. LePage on Monday called upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to intervene in New England…
Contradiction: In a CBS “60 Minutes” interview, President Barack Obama admitted that his foreign policy plans in Syria were…
It was with reserved optimism that I accepted a post on the Standards Review Panel. I was informed that this…
A new public opinion poll shows Republican Bruce Polquin leading Democrat state Sen. Emily Cain (D-Orono) by 10 points in…
BANGOR – Maine Democrats on Friday drew attention to Republican state Senate candidate Cary Weston’s lawful campaign finance activities. The…
AUGUSTA – Maine Republicans expressed outrage Friday over campaign literature sponsored by the Maine Democratic Party that attacks Sen. Brian Langley…
AUGUSTA – The Democratic candidate running against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins told reporters at a Thursday press conference she…
AUGUSTA – On the same day opponents of Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage gathered at the State House to attack him…
In a surprising move, Eric Holder Jr. will step down as Attorney General, the White House announced Thursday. From NPR: Two…
For a few years now, I’ve been closely following and commenting on state and local level circumstances relating to the…
AUGUSTA – The administration of Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday released information regarding new welfare reforms and enforcement procedures. “In…
With all the talk of debates this year, we thought readers might be interested in watching a collection of previous…
The National Rifle Association has endorsed Republican Gov. Paul LePage in his reelection bid, the group announced on Tuesday. “Based…
Sen. Ann Haskell (D-Portland), assistant majority leader in the state senate, went on the George Hale and Ric Tyler radio…
When the Bangor Daily News published a story about Gov. Paul LePage’s vacation policy for political appointees, Democratic operatives thought…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following new developments in the Veterans Affairs health care corruption scandal, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the ranking…
In case you missed it, thousands of climate change activists gathered in New York City over the weekend to protest…
In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage called on the embattled head of America’s…
The Maine Democratic Party is issuing mailers on behalf of a Democratic state senator from Androscoggin County. The mailers tout…
The Washington Free Beacon has unearthed never-before-seen correspondence between the late left-wing radical Saul Alinsky and former First Lady Hillary…
The campaign for U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud,a Democrat, is in hot water after a supporter published a video that includes a…
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, has abandoned plans to name a new high school after…