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Democrats Kill Bill to Make Parents Pay for Their Kid’s Vandalism

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 3, 20230 News

The Judiciary Committee rejected a bill Thursday that would have allowed victims of malicious vandalism by minors to collect up…

News

U.S. Treasury Chart Projects Public Debt to Reach 200% of GDP by 2040

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 2, 20230 News

The U.S. Treasury Department has released an insane chart projecting U.S. debt-GDP ratio out to 2090. https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1620447620987785216 The chart shows…

News

Golden Tapped to Serve on Armed Services Committee

By The Maine WireFebruary 2, 20230 News

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) said Thursday he will continue to serve on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. Golden…

Sports & Entertainment

Herald Reporter Triggered by “It’s OK to be white” Sign

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 2, 20236 Sports & Entertainment

Portland Press Herald music journalist Aimsel Ponti was so triggered by a sign she saw in Portland that she couldn’t…

News

[AUDIO] Robinson & Gagnon Talk Falmouth DEI Fireworks on WGAN

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 2, 20231 News

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WGAN’s Matt Gagnon Thursday morning to talk about the Maine Wire’s exclusive reporting on…

News

Black Republican Official Shot Dead in NJ

By The Maine WireFebruary 2, 20230 News

A New Jersey city councilwoman was shot dead in New Jersey Wednesday evening in what appears to be a targeted…

Commentary

RIP: Nine Years Ago, Warren Wilhelm, Jr. a.k.a. “Bill de Blasio” Murdered a Groundhog

By The Maine WireFebruary 2, 20230 Commentary

It was nine years ago today that New York City Mayor Warren Wilhelm, Jr. (pseudonym: “Bill of Blasio”) strode to…

Top News

Maine Journalists Ignore “Twitter Files” While Obsessing Over George Santos

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 1, 20230 Top News

Maine’s top news outlets have been ignoring bombshell revelations from the so-called “Twitter Files.” For anyone familiar with Maine’s newspaper…

Commentary

Columbia Journalism Review Takes Stock of Russiagate Coverage. Will NYT and WaPo Listen?

By Sam PattenFebruary 1, 20230 Commentary

Speaking to graduates of the school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, New York Times…

News

One in Five Maine Students Chronically Absent From School: MDOE Data

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 1, 20230 News

The Maine Department of Education makes certain data available through an online portal per the terms of the Every Student…

Mills Commentary

Maine Calling: Maine’s Newspaper Editors All Have Same Slanted Takes on Mills’ Late-Term Abortion Flip Flop

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 1, 20230 Commentary

Maine’s top newspaper editors joined Maine Public Broadcasting’s Jennifer Rooks for a “month in review” segment last Friday in which…

News

Trump Drops Plan to Stop “Left-Wing Gender Insanity” [VIDEO]

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 1, 20231 News

Former Republican President Donald Trump, currently the top announced candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, released a video this…

News

VA Lawmakers Debate Bill to Ban Secret School Gender Transitions: Sage’s Law

By The Maine WireFebruary 1, 20230 News

State lawmakers in Virginia are debating a proposed law that would prevent schools from secretly transitioning the genders of students…

News

8th Dead Whale Washes Up in NJ/NY; NOAA Still Upset with Lobstermen

By Steve RobinsonFebruary 1, 20230 News

If you haven’t been following the Dead Whale Beat out of New Jersey and New York, then you might not…

Featured

Maine School Meeting Erupts Into Bullying and Smears Over DEI Policies: “You just straight up f****ng racist.”

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 31, 20234 Featured 1K Views

Have a tip for the Maine Wire? Drop us an email! A Falmouth parent was bullied and accused of being…

News

Voter ID Laws: Six Questions for Secretary of State Shenna Bellows

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 31, 20230 News

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is expected to testify at the State House on Feb. 6 when the State…

News

Tens of Thousands of Feds Bilked Pandemic Programs

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 31, 20230 News

Federal employees in some ways got the easiest side of the pandemic: None of them missed a paycheck, they all…

Commentary

Rural Rage: The Grey Lady Gets Nasty

By Sam PattenJanuary 31, 20230 Commentary

My friend Richard is what I guess you would call a centrist Democrat, though he doesn’t like party labels. But…

Top News

Illegal Border Crossings Into Maine Spiked in 2022, Still Lower Than N.H. and VT

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 30, 20230 Top News

The number of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally through Maine spiked in 2022, according to Customs and Border…

Top News

Twitter Files: Left-Wing Political Operatives Fabricated Lie About “Russian Bots” (and Twitter Knew It)

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 30, 20230 Top News

The newest “Twitter Files” revelations show that a group of left-wing political operatives calling themselves “Hamilton 68” scammed millions of…

Featured

Joel Stetkis Unseats Kouzounas for Maine GOP Chair

By Sam PattenJanuary 28, 20231 Featured

It was a restless crowd at the Maine State Republican committee meeting Saturday in Augusta when grassroots activists in the…

Sports & Entertainment

Boston Mayor Wu Dedicates Jan. 26 to Former Boston Globe Editor Who Was Accused of Sexual Misconduct

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20230 Sports & Entertainment

City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday announced a special recognition for former Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory. January…

News

CDC Deputy Director Admits COVID-19 Shots Causing “Debilitating Illnesses” in Some

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20230 News

A top official at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted in a presentation Thursday that the…

News

Robinson Talks Portland Substitute Teacher Scandal with GHRT

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20230 News

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler to talk about the latest reporting on the…

Top News

Brunswick Junior High Kids Learn Flags for 15 Different Genders and Sexualities

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20233 Top News

Images posted to Facebook by an art teacher at Brunswick Junior High show middle school students learning about 15 different…

Commentary

Democrats Coordinate National Campaign to Lie About Fair Tax Bill

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20230 Commentary

Democratic politicians and activists appear to have coordinated a nationwide campaign to mislead taxpayers about a proposal from Republican lawmakers…

News

Letter: South Portland’s Anti-Semitism Problem

By The Maine WireJanuary 27, 20230 News

I have hesitated for months to write this. I know the hate and threats that will come my way. Even…

News

Pfizer Director of Research Freaks Out After Spilling Virus Secrets in 2nd Project Veritas Undercover Video

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 27, 20230 News

Undercover video released by Project Veritas on Wednesday showed a high-level employee at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spilling company secrets. Now,…

Politics

Conspiracy Prone Schiff Wants Feinstein’s Senate Seat

By Sam PattenJanuary 26, 20230 Politics

So much for Mr. Nice Guy! California Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Hollywood) isn’t waiting around anymore to see if California Sen. Dianne Feinstein,…

News

Maine Food Stamp Benefits Slashed in March

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 26, 20230 News

Low-income Maine residents have begun receiving letters informing them that their Food Stamp benefits will be slashed in March. In…

Sports & Entertainment

Pfizer Director of Research Spills Virus, Vaccine Secrets in Project Veritas Undercover Video

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 26, 20230 Sports & Entertainment

Undercover video released by Project Veritas on Wednesday shows a high-level employee at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spilling company secrets about…

Commentary

Media Watch: News Center Maine Swipes Maine Wire Story, Adds False Spin

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 26, 20230 Commentary

News Center Maine, the Portland-based NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc., cribbed the Maine Wire’s exclusive reporting on the abrupt…

News

Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Assassination Attempt on Trump

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20231 News

A woman with dual citizenship in Canada and France pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump…

Top News

Wuhan Institute of Virology Bat Virus Research, Funded by US, Lacked Proper Oversight: OIG Report

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20231 Top News

An explosive report from a government watchdog found several problems with a grant program that provided American taxpayer dollars to…

News

South Portland City Council Reckons with Refugee, Homelessness Crisis

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20230 News

The South Portland City Council met Tuesday night to work on rules that might resolve the ongoing refugee and homelessness…

News

Maine Drops to 29th in U-Haul Measure of Growth States for 2022

By The Maine WireJanuary 25, 20230 News

After surging briefly thanks to all the scared flatlanders fleeing the pandemic, Maine has once again dropped in U-Haul’s annual…

Top News

Collins Intros Bill to Block Biden Oil Sales to Communist China; Biden Threatens Veto

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20230 Top News

Maine Sen. Susan Collins is backing legislation that would prevent the White House from selling further Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR)…

News

Maine Lawmakers Advised Against “Race Neutral” Policies

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20230 News

State lawmakers heard Tuesday from a staffer on a new state commission who advised them to oppose “race neutral” policies…

News

Sagadahoc Sets Scene for Change in Maine GOP Leadership

By Sam PattenJanuary 25, 20230 News

The three challengers for chairperson of the Maine Republican Party’s seat traveled to the Phippsburg Sportsmen Association on Tuesday evening…

News

Ex-FBI Agent McGonigal Involved in Russia-gate Indicted For Violating Russia Sanctions

By Sam PattenJanuary 25, 20230 News

Before writing anything further here, please excuse any saltiness in my take. Full disclosure: I pleaded guilty to failing to…

News

Transgender Teacher at Maine Middle School Shared Salacious TikTok Videos With 6th Graders

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 25, 20231 News 1K Views

A substitute teacher at the King Middle School in Portland was removed from the classroom last week and banned from…

News

Maine “Clean” Elections Candidates, Including Democrat State Rep, Indicted for Fraud

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 24, 20230 News

A Democratic State Representative and a former Republican candidate were both indicted in December for fraud related to Maine’s so-called…

Top News

Boston City Councilor Mejia Sues Massachusetts Journalist for Defamation

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 24, 20230 Top News

Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia filed a lawsuit Thursday in Massachusetts’ Suffolk Superior Court claiming journalist Aidan Kearney has libeled…

News

Maine Moving Company That Threatened People Who Left Negative Online Reviews Owes State $125,000

By The Maine WireJanuary 24, 20230 News

A Maine business owner who used a fake email to threaten people who left him negative reviews on the Internet…

Commentary

Troy Jackson is Wrong on Income Tax Cuts

By Nick MurrayJanuary 24, 20230 Commentary

In a video posted to Youtube on Saturday, Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) said all income tax cuts are essentially…

Top News

AG Garland: “We do not have different rules for Democrats or Republicans…”

By The Maine WireJanuary 24, 20230 Top News

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the U.S. Justice Department does not have different sets of rules based on…

News

Greta Thunberg Refuses to Condemn Putin, OPEC

By The Maine WireJanuary 23, 20230 News 1K Views

Famed anti-capitalist and environmentalist superstar Greta Thunberg refused to condemn oil producing nations in the Middle East or Russian President…

Top News

Maine Senator Rips “Citizens United” After $750k in Outside Spending Put Him in Office

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 23, 20230 Top News

Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) posted a video to social media on Saturday complaining about Citizens United v. FEC, a…

National

Biden Taps COVID-19 Czar Zients as Chief of Staff

By Sam PattenJanuary 23, 20230 National

Who knew the U.S. government has a Chief Performance Officer? Until the White House announced on Sunday that the president has…

National

Mass. Democrat’s Child Arrested in Anti-Cop Antifa Riot in Boston

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 23, 20231 National

The child of Democratic Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark was arrested Saturday night after allegedly assaulting a police officer and…

News

Pingree Fears Mainers Will Eschew Heat Pumps After Watching Pro-Propane HGTV

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 23, 20230 News

Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether the propane industry has been…

News

Maine Man Arrested Again on Domestic Terrorism Charges

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 23, 20230 News

A Kennebunkport man was arrested for the second time in recent months Saturday in Atlanta following a terror campaign against…

Top News

Maine DOT Pitches $900M Portland-Bangor Amtrak Train Expansion

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 23, 20230 Top News

The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is considering ways to make traveling from Portland to Bangor easier. One option is…

Commentary

Biden’s Classified Doc Scandal Reeks of an Inside Job

By Sam PattenJanuary 22, 20230 Commentary

Ok, this is just getting silly – on Saturday, the Justice Department announced that the FBI found more documents in…

Maine and New England

Maine Socialists to Scrap “Diversity Requirements” After Failing to Meet Leadership Identity Quotas

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 20, 20230 Maine and New England

The Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) will hold one of two annual meetings on Saturday and…

News

Supreme Court Fails to Identify Leaker Who Sought to Sway U.S. Elections

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 20, 20231 News

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that its investigation into the politically strategic leaking of a draft opinion on abortion…

Commentary

Are NPR-Americans Still COVID Testing Before Social Gatherings?

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 20, 20230 Commentary

Are NPR listeners and readers living in a different reality than the rest of us? A news piece the taxpayer-funded…

News

Al Gore: Inflation Reduction Act Was All About Climate Change

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 20, 20233 News

The so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was touted by Maine politicians, and especially Rep. Jared Golden (ME-2), as an economic…

News

Paris Police Investigating Maine Public School Teacher for Alleged Unwanted Sexual Contact with 12-Year-Old Student

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 20, 20231 News

Police in Paris, Maine, are investigating an Oxford Hills Middle School substitute teacher over allegations that he inappropriately touched a…

Commentary

DC Staffers Defy Accountability: SCOTUS Edition

By Sam PattenJanuary 20, 20230 Commentary

Just after the disastrous Bay of Pigs operation in 1961, the newly-inaugurated President John F. Kennedy called Richard Bissell, the…

News

American Earnings Fall Behind Costs as 2023 Brings Inflation, Recession Fears: Survey

By The Maine WireJanuary 19, 20230 News

Americans are pessimistic about what the economy will bring in 2023, with large numbers fearing inflation and a looming recession…

News

CDC Regularly Called The Shots On Facebook’s COVID-19 Censorship Decisions, Docs Show

By DCNFJanuary 19, 20231 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on January 19, 2023 Facebook made content moderation decisions based on communications…

News

New ATF Rule Sets The Stage To Classify Legal Gun Owners As Criminals

By DCNFJanuary 19, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Bronson Winslow on January 19, 2023 A recent rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…

News

Maine Child Welfare Failures Demand DHHS Overhaul, Say Republicans

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 19, 20230 News

Maine’s Republican lawmakers say the systemic — and sometimes deadly — failures of Maine’s child welfare agency require the state…

Sports & Entertainment

Davos Man Tightens His Belt

By Sam PattenJanuary 18, 20230 Sports & Entertainment

Does the fact that George Soros is skipping the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year a signal that…

Commentary

Maine Media Skews Left on Mills’ Abortion Flipflop

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 18, 20230 Commentary

Throughout last year, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills stated repeatedly in her debates with former Republican Gov. Paul LePage that she…

Top News

Biden Document Flap Gives Dems Convenient Excuse to Toss Him Overboard for 2024

By Sam PattenJanuary 18, 20230 Top News

At a time when more than a third of Americans are telling the Pew Research Foundation it’s a bad sign…

Featured

Maine Democrats Want to Legalize Abortion At Anytime in Pregnancy Despite Mills’ Campaign Stance

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 18, 20233 Featured

Maine Gov. Janet Mills, Democratic lawmakers, and abortion advocates announced Tuesday that they will seek fundamental changes to Maine’s abortion…

Schaeffer: Biden Presidency in Flat Spin Crisis

By Pem SchaefferJanuary 17, 20230 News

If you saw the original Top Gun with Tom Cruise, released in 1986, you know what a Flat Spin is,…

News

Lewiston Rep Wants to End Cash Bail

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 17, 20230 News

Rep. Mana Abdi (D-Lewiston) has submitted a bill that would end the practice of cash bail, a longtime goal of…

News

Lawmakers Want to Bring Kickboxing, Muay Thai to Maine

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 17, 20230 News

A pair of bills submitted to the 131st Legislature this year would bring competitive kickboxing and other martial arts events…

News

Maine Lawmaker Wants to Ban TikTok on State-Owned Devices

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 17, 20230 News

Rep. Nathan Carlow (R-Buxton) has submitted a bill that would prohibit state employees from using state-owned devices to access TikTok,…

News

Maine BLM Activist Accuses City of Portland Employees of Screaming Anti-Muslim Obscenities

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 17, 20232 News

UPDATE: On Jan. 27, Ahmed posted to Twitter an image of a letter from the Portland Housing Authority confirming that…

Commentary

Portland Socialist Unironically Celebrates Lenin

By Sam PattenJanuary 17, 20230 Commentary

Hillary and Barack had Saul Alinsky with his “Rules for Radicals,” but the Democratic Socialists of America’s Maine chapter have…

Top News

Bangor Daily News Lampooned for Censoring MLK Jr. “I Have a Dream” Speech

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 17, 20230 Top News

The Bangor Daily News was raked over the coals Monday by social media users following the discovery that the paper…

oxford hills school Commentary

Rep. John Andrews: Stand Up and Be Counted

By John AndrewsJanuary 16, 20231 Commentary

Recently the SAD 17 school district in western Maine, my kid’s school district, tried to enact a policy based on…

Top News

Maine Bill Would Extend Medicaid Benefits to Illegal Aliens

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 16, 20230 Top News

Several Democratic members of the State Legislature have introduced a proposal that would extend Medicaid benefits to individuals who are…

News

FDA, CDC Say Pfizer COVID-19 Jab May Be Linked to Stroke Risk

By The Maine WireJanuary 16, 20230 News

Federal health officials said Friday COVID-19 injections prepared by Pfizer Inc and its European partner BioNTech may increase the risk…

Maine and New England

Mills’ Budget Maintains Maine’s Largest Ever Tax Hike

By Tom DesjardinJanuary 16, 20230 Maine and New England

Apparently, Gov. Janet Mills is expecting a $2 billion visit from the tooth fairy. While introducing the third two-year budget…

News

NYC Mayor Says His City Has ‘No Room’ For Illegal Migrants During Border Visit

By DCNFJanuary 16, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on January 16, 2023 Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams said his…

Top News

Maine School Asserts Legal Right to Secretly Counsel Students on Sex Changes Without Parental Consent

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 16, 20231 Top News

The board of a Damariscotta school emailed a letter to parents Saturday asserting a legal right for school employees to…

News

Boston Unveils Chunk of Bronze to Honor MLK Jr.

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 16, 20230 News

The city of Boston unveiled a bronze statue on Friday that was supposed to honor the legacy of Martin Luther…

News

In Defense of “Many Stitches Hold Up the Sky”

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 16, 20230 News

I write today in defense of “Many Stitches Hold Up the Sky” — the controversial mural that will soon grace…

News

Red State Moves To Ban Lessons On Gender Ideology, Sexual Orientation In Public Schools

By DCNFJanuary 13, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on January 13, 2023 Republican Texas Sen. Bob Hall introduced legislation Thursday barring…

News

New York Times Confirms Another Key Detail Of Censored Hunter Biden Bombshell

By DCNFJanuary 13, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on January 13, 2023 The New York Times on Wednesday confirmed another detail…

News

The US Crackdown On Chinese Slave Labor Is Devastating The Solar Industry

By DCNFJanuary 13, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jack McEvoy on January 13, 2023 The federal government has seized thousands of Chinese solar…

News

Maine Journalists Fawn Over Outgoing Nirav Shah

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 13, 20230 News

Dr. Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Thursday that he was resigning…

News

AG Merrick Garland Goes From Hero to Zero with Biden Special Counsel [VIDEO]

By The Maine WireJanuary 13, 20230 News

Attorney General Merrick Garland, once a hero of the left-wing media for his investigations of former President Donald Trump, has…

Commentary

Is the Government Coming for Gas Stoves?

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 13, 20230 Commentary

The news cycle is familiar: 1) A government bureaucracy proposes some ridiculous progressive idea based on equity, gender ideology, climate…

News

The US Is Shipping So Many Weapons To Ukraine, Defense Companies Can’t Keep Up, Top Navy Officers Warn

By DCNFJanuary 12, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation — Micaela Burrow on January 12, 2023 Top officers in the U.S. Navy warned that the…

News

‘Republicans Are Behind It’: Sunny Hostin Asks If GOP Planted Classified Docs In Biden’s Garage

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 12, 20230 News

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on January 12, 2023 “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin questioned Thursday whether Republicans…

News

Parents Rights Advocates Urge Opt Out of Bogus Public School Sex Survey

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 12, 20232 News

Parental rights advocates are urging Maine parents to opt out of a school survey that will be administered on Jan.…

News

Maine’s Nirav Shah, CDC Director for Pandemic, Becomes Rochelle Walensky’s #2

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 12, 20230 News

Dr. Nirav Shah, who served Gov. Janet Mills as director of Maine’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the…

News

Social Worker Who Secretly Coached 13-Year-Old Girl into Gender Transition Will Keep Public School Job

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 12, 20239 News

A Damariscotta public school social worker who attempted to secretly transition a 13-year-old female student into a boy without her…

Top News

Biden’s “Classified” Blunder Exposes Two-Tiered American Justice System

By Sam PattenJanuary 12, 20230 Top News

You’ve heard of the one percent-ers, but how about the one-third percent-ers? 1.3 million Americans hold Top Secret security clearances,…

News

Economy: BLS Says CPI Down 0.1% in Dec., Food Prices Up

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 12, 20231 News

The Bureau of Labor Standards on Wednesday released inflation numbers for the month of December, and while some trumpeted the…

News

Mills $10.3 Billion Budget Increases Spending on Health Care, Infrastructure, and Education

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 11, 20230 News

Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday proposed a $10.3 billion budget that will largely shape political negotiations in Augusta and state…

Top News

Timberlake, Diamond Highlight Child Welfare Reform Proposals on GHRT [LISTEN]

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 11, 20230 Top News

Sen. Jeff Timberlake (R-Androscoggin) and former Sen. Bill Diamond are once again calling for significant reforms to the Department of…

News

Maine School Board Members Who Pushed Radical Gender Ideology Recalled by Paris Voters

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 10, 20230 News

Paris residents voted Tuesday night to recall a pair of school board officials who drew the community’s ire by pushing…

News

Craven Proposes Bill to Criminalize Parents Leaving 9-Year-Olds in Cars

By Steve RobinsonJanuary 10, 20230 News

A Lewiston lawmaker has proposed a bill that would make it a crime for any adult to leave a child…

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