Maine Gov. Janet Mills will deliver the State of the State address on February 10. She will not release her…
Can we do anything lawful and legitimate to “protect, defend, and preserve” America as we know it? I don’t know…
Last week, Democrats brought to the Senate floor The Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Act.…
Maine’s unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4.7% in December 2021, according to a release issued Tuesday by the Maine Department…
On Saturday, newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, declared an end to mask mandates in the state’s public…
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta…
A preliminary estimate of drug-related deaths indicates 636 people died in Maine as a result of drug overdoses in 2021,…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Housing voted not to move LD 555, a bill that would have given…
On January 13, the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)…
On January 12, while driving, I listened to the Maine CDC’s weekly COVID-19 briefing conducted by Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and…
Last week, the US Census Bureau released its “New Vintage 2021 Population Estimates” for the United States and surrounding territories.…
On January 12, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced…
St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston has implemented a policy allowing employees who test positive for COVID-19 to come to work…
The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee held a public hearing Wednesday on LD 327, a Republican-sponsored bill intended…
The optimistic scenario goes like this. America shakes off what remains of the pandemic in the coming months without the…
The January 11 special election for House District 27, which includes parts of Scarborough and Gorham, ended in victory for…
In the Washington Post on December 18, three retired generals wrote that they are concerned about the military staging a coup in…
On January 10, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a joint temporary action…
On January 7, Gov. Janet Mills vetoed LD 151, a bill that would have allowed farmworkers to collectively bargain in…
The NCAA on Thursday released its new COVID-19 guidance for winter sports, and the guidance contains some important news. As…
On January 1, Maine’s minimum wage increased to $12.75 per hour. The increase is the result of a law passed…
Yesterday, the first legislative day of the second session of the 130th Legislature, majority Democrats moved to return to remote…
Last year on January 6, I took the day off to go skiing with my son. We got up early…
The second session of the 130th Maine Legislature began on January 5, with both the Senate and House of Representatives…
It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling.…
The Portland City Council voted to repeal the city’s declaration of emergency and implement an indoor mask mandate at its…
On December 30, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Maine Department of Education (DOE) announced…
The Mills administration has announced no plans to provide at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for Maine residents, but at-home tests may…
On December 30 Gov. Janet Mills’ administration announced Maine’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has been granted intervenor status in…
The Commission to Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions recently submitted its final report…
Every holiday season, Senator Rand Paul honors the fictional Seinfeld holiday “Festivus,” an annual airing of grievances, with a report…
In its December 1st editorial, “Some serious crimes still go unreported,” the Press Herald writes that recently released crime statistics…
The number of students enrolled in Maine public schools grew in the 2021-2022 school year from the 2020-2021 school year,…
Elon Musk made a bold claim on Twitter on Tuesday. The Tesla founder said he would “pay more taxes than…
The current Portland City Charter Commission is worse than the 2009-10 one. The last one was prompted by widespread dissatisfaction…
Eight Maine hospitals will host federal ambulance teams, which will assist the state’s emergency medical services (EMS) workers with non-emergency…
The Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) and the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) on December 14 released the…
Federal appeals courts recently issued two decisions impacting federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements mandated by President Joe Biden earlier this year.…
According to a schedule released on December 17, the 130th Maine Legislature will hold only two in-person sessions when it…
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a theory about why Americans are paying higher prices these days at the…
For the month of November, Maine’s unemployment rate remained at 4.8%, a number that has largely been unchanged since February.…
On December 16, a Maine judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped Question 1, the November ballot initiative…
The most widely-used metrics of consumer price inflation are hitting their highest levels in decades, with the Consumer Price Index…
When the 130th Maine Legislature reconvenes for its second session in January 2022, it will debate the state’s next supplemental…
In March 2021, Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law requiring the Legislative Council to study the best method…
Less than one week after announcing she was activating up to 75 members of the National Guard to serve in…
“Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science,” said Anthony Fauci to widespread ridicule or approval, depending upon which…
Earlier this year, schools around the country received more than a hundred billion dollars from the federal government—American taxpayers, in…
Gov. Janet Mills appeared at a December 8 press conference held by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, a case involving religious freedom and what…
At the Appropriation and Financial Affairs (AFA) Committee meeting on December 7, Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Commissioner…
Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases…
In late November, the Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC), a branch of the Maine Legislature’s Office of Fiscal and Program Review,…
On December 1, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Maine Department of Education,…
My son recently underwent what was once a common rite of passage: his first job. He now balances the demands…
President Joe Biden once bizarrely remarked on the 2020 campaign trail, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” It shows.…
The Commission to Create a Plan to Incorporate the Probate Court into the Judicial Branch held its final meeting on…
Last month, inflation in the US reached 6.2%, the highest year-over-year increase in more than three decades. Measured via the Bureau…
Maine’s rate of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes is currently the highest in the nation according to data provided by…
Abraham Lincoln once famously said, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government…
Following its November 23 meeting, the Maine Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC) upgraded the state’s General Fund revenue forecast. The RFC…
A federal district court judge found that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows violated free association rights of the Libertarian Party…
It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a…
The governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island withdrew their support from the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) last week, effectively…
On November 9, the Portland City Council’s Safety Committee voted to approve a sweeping ban on the sale of all…
Maine’s workforce conditions in October were little changed from September according to new data released by the Department of Labor…
On November 18, the Legislative Council met to consider appeals to legislative requests that were rejected at its October 25…
In a blow to Maine’s lobster fishermen, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reinstated a seasonal closure…
A question asking voters whether they want the legislature to direct a commission to study developing legislation that would create…
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 12 permanently blocked implementation of…
The fate of President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar social spending agenda, the “Build Back Better” plan, has consumed the political conversation in…
Politicians have been on a high over the last year-plus, wielding extraordinary power with the approval of voters fearful of…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Department of Education (DOE) are currently accepting 30-second videos from…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on November 10 released its final rule updating the immunization requirements…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills announced on November 10 it will soon begin distributing “disaster relief payments” passed as…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 6 granted an emergency stay of the Occupational Safety…
With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in…
A recent analysis of the data in Maine CDC’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard revealed that, while rates of…
Maine’s requirement that healthcare workers at designated healthcare facilities be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 went into enforcement on October 29.…
This past election day, Mainers faced two contentious statewide ballot questions, but many local initiatives faced the scrutiny of voters…
Reports across Maine over the last month have detailed the several healthcare facilities forced to curtail services because of staffing shortages.…
Early returns on November 2 proved to be indicative of the results for Maine’s three ballot questions, which were all…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
We shouldn’t be too surprised that the ongoing exodus from public schools is leading those loyal to government-run schooling to…
Cigarette sales in the United States rose last year for the first time in two decades, according to data published by the Federal Trade…
Recent enrollment numbers released by the Maine Department of Education (DOE) show that the number of students who are being…
On October 25 the Legislative Council met to consider bill requests for the 130th Maine Legislature’s upcoming second session. The…
Gov. Janet Mills held a press conference on October 25 to announce funding for four programs intended to address Maine’s…
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in American history as one of loss, economic suffering, and…
Maine’s unemployment rate remained largely unchanged between August and September. The unemployment rate ticked down slightly, from 4.9% in August…
Should government officials be allowed to choose which journalists report on them? Most Americans probably would say no, because the First…
It is now less than a month before voters will go to the polls and cast their votes on ballot…
For years, my son has leased land from Christian Camps in Jackman to tap trees for maple syrup, so I’m…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on October 18 to change the city fee structure for licenses of amusement devices.…
A commission directed by the Maine Legislature to create a plan to incorporate the state’s probate courts into the judicial…
On October 16, a U.S. District Court judge blocked the implementation of a seasonal ban on lobster fishing in Maine…
Many parents pulled their children out of school last year for homeschooling and other private options, as schools remained shuttered…
As of October 7, there have been just under 3,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in Maine schools within the last…
The Maine Legislature’s Republican leadership sent a letter to their Democratic counterparts on October 12 urging them to reconvene the…
As one-size-fits-all COVID vaccine mandates sweep government, academia, and corporate America, new data are emerging that undermine the public health…