By John Vinci NetRightDaily As of January 4, 2013: States NOT establishing a State Exchange (26), including Maine: ALABAMA ALASKA…
Weekly Address, January 7, 2013 Hello. This is Governor Paul LePage. This week, newly elected officials across our country and…
My two-year term as Maine State Treasurer ends today. I’ve been humbled and honored by the privilege to serve the…
By Rasmussen Reports Last week began with a “fiscal cliff” deal that surprised no one and earned mixed reviews. It ended…
RedState.com The Northeast region—including Maine—leads the United States in outbound migration, according to the results of United Van Lines’ 36th…
By Senator Susan Collins While our country spent September 11, 2012, remembering the terrorist attacks that took place eleven years earlier…
Governor Paul LePage has released a new video detailing his efforts to reduce taxes and create jobs in Maine. The…
When the going gets tough, the tough take their fun where they can find it. So, rather than dwell on…
AUGUSTA – Kenneth Fletcher today announced he will be retiring from state government as the Director of the Governor’s Energy…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation While you were sleeping—or ringing in 2013—the Senate voted to raise taxes. After missing the…
Hello. This is Governor Paul LePage. The number of motor vehicle crashes, deaths, and related injuries occurring on our roadways…
By James Gattuso and Diane Katz The Heritage Foundation It seems that no aspect of American life can escape government regulation. In the…
By Romina Boccia The Heritage Foundation Budget policy in 2012 was characterized by deficit spending, major increases in the national…
“If you don’t want to have a gun in your home or in your school, that’s your choice. But don’t…
The end of 2012 was marked by lawmakers engaging in a distracting fiscal cliff debate over tax rates when the…
By Alyene Senger The Heritage Foundation Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning…
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For…
By Rob Bluey The Heritage Foundation Christmas arrives this year at a time when our nation is on the brink…
By Prof. John Frary “It’s time to talk about gun control.” This was the title of a Washington Post editorial…
This is the Governor’s weekly message. An audio file of the message can be found here. Hello. This is Governor Paul…
Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”Wouldn’t you just know it; the venerable Senate filibuster…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage asks that the people of Maine observe a moment of silence on Friday, Dec.…
Numerous commentators, with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly chief among them, are busy this time of year building up the idea that…
By Joel Allumbaugh Director of MHPC’s Center for Health Reform Initiatives The last of three cases studies on how Obamacare…
Peter Anastos, chairman of the MaineHousing Board of Commissioners, and State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin talk about the “astounding” results of…
Thanks to new leadership at the Maine State Housing Authority, the cost of developing or rehabilitating affordable housing units…
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For…
By Scott Rasmussen The Rasmussen Report Having survived the Supreme Court and the November elections, President Obama’s health care law now…
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For…
Governor urges Mainers to weatherize homes, contribute to community organizations that provide heating assistance to those in need AUGUSTA – As…
The Alyene Senger The Heritage Foundation Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning…
By Michael Sandoval The Heritage Foundation In just a little over a decade, the U.S. federal debt will exceed 100 percent…
By Prof. John Frary Maine Wire columnist Most people know about the vanguard of the union-busting gang. They’ve seen the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As she concludes her 40 years of service in elective office to the people of Maine and…
This story was posted Wednesday in Forbes. See it here. By Kurt Badenhausen Forbes For the third straight year Maine…
We’re all familiar with the way many high school and college football teams enter the field at the start of…
Paying Obamacare penalties would be less expensive than providing health insurance A case study from a blueberry farming operation in…
PORTLAND—The proposed East-West Highway across Maine is featured in a new Sierra Club national report as one of the worst…
Governor recognizes Gorham organization which helps military families and children AUGUSTA – In recognition of the sacrifices made by children…
By Senator Susan Collins As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I have always worked to support our…
By Curtis Dubay The Heritage Foundation The one glaring omission in President Obama’s fiscal cliff demands for higher rates on top earners is…
Hello. This is Governor, Paul LePage. Several weeks ago, I used my radio address to talk about the compassion of…
This article, titled “Stealthy Wealthy: Donald Sussman, Rep. Pingree make strange bedfellows”, was posted December 7, 2012 by The Sunlight…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation It seems that every day now brings another business owner in the news talking about…
It seems fair to say that, as recently as a month ago, you could have walked down any city street,…
By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation The wind production tax credit (PTC) has created an industry that produces overpriced,…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage released the following statement today, challenging Democrats to start working together for Maine people by…
By Alison Acosta Fraser and J.D. Foster, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation The House Republican leadership has offered a substantive counteroffer to President Obama’s…
Governor LePage will assess options in a thoughtful and meaningful manner AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage has received notification…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation With just a few weeks left in 2012, all eyes in Washington are on…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation President Obama made his first offer to congressional Republicans yesterday in negotiations over the “fiscal…
A report that ranks Workers’ Compensation premium rates shows that Maine has the 10th highest workers’ comp rate in the…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage revealed today that the U.S. Department of Labor has been interfering in the restructuring…
This story, titled, “MaineHousing changes standards, lowers cost of low-income projects,” was published November 29 in the Sun Journal. By Scott…
An index of economic freedom in North America ranks Maine in the bottom 10 of states and provinces that offer…
By Sally C. Pipes Pacific Research Institute The next act in the Obamacare saga is about to begin—and it’s going…
AUGUSTA – A veteran legislator long lauded as an effective advocate for efficient government and for his efforts to enhance government…
Here’s a headline seen on forbes.com on Nov. 25: “Do You Live in a Death Spiral State?” Unfortunately for residents of the…
By Amy Payne and Alison Acosta Fraser The Heritage Foundation Let’s talk taxes. In a New York Times op-ed yesterday, famed investor and Berkshire Hathaway…
As prescribed in Maine’s constitution, the state has been funding the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS) in amounts equal…
The state of Maine has $14.5 billion in assets, but most of these assets are not available to meet the…
By Scott Rasmussen Rasmussen Reports The Republican Party has won a majority of the popular vote just once in the…
There’s a story told about the ancient, fabled Eastern European Jewish city of Chelm, in which the elders of the…
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By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Federal employees—who work on average a month less than private-sector workers and get paid more—are…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Taking down the Twinkie. Clogging Wal-Mart parking lots on Black Friday. Messing with a major airport…
By Bronson Stocking The Heritage Foundation A letter from 232 multi-industry organizations, in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is calling on…
By James Sherk The Heritage Foundation Enjoy Twinkies while you still can. Hostess Brands just went bankrupt. This morning the company announced…
AUGUSTA – The Maine Charter School Commission voted Friday to approve the application from the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science…
This is the weekly address by Governor Paul LePage. When Mainers say grace at the Thanksgiving table Thursday, we will…
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By U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) Now that the elections are behind us, it is time for the campaigning to…
By Bill Wilson Americans for Limited Government “[T]he only thing that’s worse than cutting national defense is not having any…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage today reiterated his recommendation that the State of Maine will not develop a state-based…
After 35 years as president of the indispensable Heritage Foundation, Edwin Feulner will soon be stepping down. By NEAL B. FREEMAN…
Governors and other state officials are deciding whether their state will establish a Health Insurance Exchange. The Department of Health…
By Joel B. Pollak Brietbart.com The Department of Labor has announced that new jobless claims rose by a staggering 78,000 in…
AUGUSTA – The hundreds of pounds of food collected by the First Family during their Second Annual Blaine House Food…
A new study says there are five specific warning signs for developing Alzheimer’s disease. The first one is going bald,…
By Bill Wilson Americans for Limited Government If a new United Nations (UN) treaty governing small arms passes the U.S.…
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By Rick Manning Americans for Limited Government Analyzing elections when feelings are still raw is usually a bad idea. Of…
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry wishes to remind Maine residents who are veterans and were honorably discharged,…
By Steven Bucci The Heritage Foundation For nearly 100 years, America has been celebrating on November 11. Originally it was to…
By Senator Susan Collins For more than two centuries, young Americans have left the comfort and security of home in order…
This article appeared the morning after the election, detailing the mass of layoffs because of the cost of Obamacare. By Rusty…
By Nina Owcharenko The Heritage Foundation What’s next for Obamacare now? The bad news is that many of the health…
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Well, at least Big Bird is safe. OK, that wasn’t all that funny. But there isn’t much that is this…
By Rich Noyes Research director for the Media Research Center Fox News and other media outlets have projected that President…
By Ed Feulner President, The Heritage Foundation Dear friends, I write to tell you to take heart. Yes, conservatives are…
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By David S. Addington The Heritage Foundation In urging the delegates to a New York convention to ratify theU.S. Constitution in…
By Bruce Poliquin Maine State Treasurer Maine state government’s credit rating is an objective measure of our State’s economic and…
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage has released a new video highlighting recent education reform, noting that the LePage Administration increased funding…
The Next President and the Supreme Court was posted on The Heritage Foundation’s blog. By Edwin Meese III Every vote counts. And…
By Diana George Chapin In her March 14, 2009 Wall Street Journal column, Peggy Noonan recalled in “There’s No Pill…