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.
In July, the Bangor Daily News ran an editorial titled “Where was Maine Turnpike Authority oversight?”. The editors of the…
In 2010, traffic fatalities among drivers between the ages of 16 and 24 averaged nearly one a week in Maine.…
With just a bit more than 10 months left before we choose a president and most of Congress, the 2012…
By Leif Parsell This is the first in a series of profiles of Maine businesses, civic organizations, and grassroots political…
WCSH political reporter Don Carrigan has an interesting interview with the infamous S. Donald Sussman, husband and benefactor of Maine…
Analysis by Amanda Clark, The Maine Heritage Policy Center Between school consolidation and decreased funding, Maine’s educational system has been…
State Representative Heather Sirocki (R-Scarborough) joins host MD Harmon for a discussion of the upcoming legislative session.
What she wrote on Dec. 13 has become hugely controversial. She’s been accused of being a racist; she’s gotten five…
By Leif Parsell In an opinion piece published on the progressive blog “dirigoblue.com,” State Representative Timothy Driscol (D-Westbrook), compared Governor…
The Maine Wire has obtained a copy of a letter sent today by U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) to the…
by Leif Parsell Maine State Housing Authority staffers continue to offer few answers to questions surrounding the handling of the…
by Scott Moody, Chief Economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released their first post-census…
By Leif Parsell Facing structural shortfalls in the budget of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Governor Paul…
At a time when books and films about vampires and werewolves are enjoying a renaissance, at least among teen readers,…
Not surprisingly, the Maine press this week rushed to deliver the news of a supposed 4,400 jobs that would be…
State Rep. Mark Eves (D- North Berwick) and MHPC CEO Lance Dutson appeared this week on MPBN’s MaineWatch to discuss…
by Frank Heller Dam removal advocates always make the assumption that sea run fish will once again return to the…
By Leif Parsell This week Maine legislative leaders Representatives Andre Cushing (R-Hampden) and Emily Cain (D-Orono) both declared their candidacy…
By Leif Parsell Rallies in Augusta this week organized by an alliance of Progressive organizations and so-called Patient Advocacy Groups…
Rallied by a variety of Patient Advocacy Groups, hundreds of protestors converged on the capital building in Augusta on Wednesday,…
by Leif Parsell To begin a contentious week of hearings on the shortfall and proposed fixes in the budget of…
Maine House Assistant Majority Leader Andre Cushing (R-Hampden) announced yesterday that he will seek election to the state senate for…
State Representative Kathy Chase (R- Wells) joins host MD Harmon to discuss her views on the state legislature’s accomplishments
When the talk at the corner bar turns to bias in the media, the conversation usually devolves very quickly to…
State Representative and U.S. Senate candidate Jon Hinck (D- Portland) joins host MD Harmon to discuss his take on the…
Maine State Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick recently appeared in this promotional video, funded by three natural gas corporations from…
by Leif Parsell The election for Maine’s 138th House District may begin earlier than expected, as speculation swirls around the…
The Second Session of Maine’s 125th Legislature convenes in January, and we’ve got a rundown of the bills on tap…
Dale McCormick resorted to quoting Bob Dylan.
Though it may not have provided the answer sought, it did provide a curious and somewhat entertaining moment in one of McCormickʼs first official interactions with new state officials attempting to untangle the bureaucratic quagmire at the Maine State Housing Authority, of which McCormick is director.
And it may have set the tone for interactions between McCormick and MSHA board members newly appointed by newly elected Governor Paul LePage.
The Maine Heritage Policy Center, the parent organization of this website, released the following information regarding Maine State Housing Authority…