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Twitter Files: Musk Releases Internal Documents on Censorship of NY Post’s Hunter Scoop

By Steve RobinsonDecember 5, 20225 National

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi set social media ablaze on Friday night with the release of internal Twitter documents provided to…

National

Chinese Hackers Stole Millions in COVID-19 Benefits: Secret Service

By The Maine WireDecember 5, 20221 National

Hackers affiliated with the communist government of the People’s Republic of China stole millions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic benefits,…

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DC Fixer Leslie Dach Behind Biden Admin’s Hunter Spin Machine

By Sam PattenDecember 5, 20221 Commentary

If you don’t know who Leslie Dach is, there’s no need to beat yourself up over it. I’m a recovering…

News

Survey Shows Depression, Gender Confusion Rising in Maine High Schoolers

By Steve RobinsonDecember 5, 20221 News

The number of Maine high school students who identify as transgender more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, according to…

News

30% of Maine High School Students Overweight or Obese

By Steve RobinsonDecember 5, 20220 News

An alarming 30.9 percent of Maine high school students are overweight or obese, according to the 2021 Maine Integrated Youth…

National

Angus King Compares Putin to Hitler in Push for More Ukraine Funding

By Steve RobinsonDecember 5, 20221 National

U.S. Sen. Angus King on Sunday compared Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler as part of a public relations…

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Government-run power? No thanks

By Jacob PosikDecember 3, 20222 Energy & Environment

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows confirmed this week that the effort to establish a “consumer-owned” utility in Maine, led by…

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Florida Divests $2 Billion From Woke ESG BlackRock Fund

By Steve RobinsonDecember 2, 20221 News

Florida will be pulling $2 billion worth of pension funds previously under the management of financial mega firm BlackRock over…

News

Maine Purchasing Power Lags New Hampshire

By Nick MurrayDecember 2, 20221 News

SmartAsset recently published its 2022 Cost of Living Calculator which charts the average cost of living and per capita income…

Coronavirus

Fintechs Enabled Billions in Pandemic Fraud, Per Bombshell Report

By Steve RobinsonDecember 2, 20226 Coronavirus

Large financial technology firms “caused tremendous harm to taxpayers” by facilitating the flow of tens of billions of dollars in…

News

Wealthy White-Collar Firms Got $1.4Bn in Pandemic Relief: Watchdog

By Steve RobinsonDecember 2, 20222 News

Some of America’s wealthiest law firms and accounting firms reaped millions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic loan forgiveness from 2020…

Top News

Offshore Wind – Not Maine Lobstering – Threatening Endangered Right Whales: Bloomberg

By Steve RobinsonDecember 1, 20222 Top News

Previously unseen government documents from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have revealed that the off-shore wind industry poses…

News

$86K in Unspent GOP PAC Money Raises Questions for Maine Republicans

By Steve RobinsonNovember 30, 20222 News

Question are swirling among Maine Republican insiders following the transfer of more than $86,000 from a committee aimed at helping…

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Left-Wing Maine School Board Members Lose Recall Challenge Amid Fight Over Gender Rules

By Steve RobinsonNovember 30, 20222 News

A school board recall fight in the Oxford Hills School District is the latest chapter in a growing divide over…

News

Patten: It’s Time for Mainers to Boycott Whole Foods

By Sam PattenNovember 30, 20222 News

Jeffrey, a manager at the Portland branch of Whole Foods, won’t tell me whether or not his store sells Maine…

News

Inflation, Corporate Profits, Government Revenue Up in New Maine Economic Forecast

By Steve RobinsonNovember 30, 20221 News

Maine’s economic forecasting committee revised estimates of several key economic indicators for 2022 in its latest report, with major upward…

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Sex-change Surgeries, Paid for by Taxpayers, Rising Sharply in Maine

By Steve RobinsonNovember 30, 20220 Featured 1K Views

The number of taxpayer-funded transsexual surgeries in Maine has nearly quadrupled since 2019, the year Democratic Gov. Janet Mills modified…

News

Biden’s Thanksgiving Rental Cars Mysteriously Exploded Last Night

By Steve RobinsonNovember 30, 20221 News

The fleet of five rental cars President Joe Biden and his entourage used during their Thanksgiving vacation to Nantucket mysteriously…

News

A Message to Maine Wire Readers from Steve Robinson

By Steve RobinsonNovember 29, 20222 News

Greetings Dear Reader,You may have noticed some changes around The Maine Wire lately. We’ve got a new look, an aggressive…

News

Respect for Marriage Act, Backed By Collins, Could Threaten Tax-Exempt Status of Maine’s Churches

By Steve RobinsonNovember 28, 20221 News

Maine’s churches and other religious non-profits could see their tax exempt status threatened by activist lawsuits if the Senate votes…

News

Disturbing Commercial Celebrates Canada’s Assisted Suicide Program

By The Maine WireNovember 28, 20220 News 2K Views

Canada has embraced government-assisted suicide with an uncommon vigor, and now at least one private company has joined the pro-euthanasia…

News

Maine Democrats Plan to Pursue New Gun Control Laws

By Steve RobinsonNovember 28, 20220 News

A group of Democratic state lawmakers plans to pursue new gun control measures despite Democratic Gov. Janet Mills past refusal…

News

Boston Pays $2.1 Million to Religious Liberty Advocates Over Anti-Christian Discrimination

By The Maine WireNovember 28, 20221 News

The city of Boston has paid Liberty Counsel, a non-profit organization that litigates in defense of religious freedom, more than…

News

Major News Outlets Call on U.S. to Drop Charges Against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange

By Steve RobinsonNovember 28, 20221 News

Four European news outlets joined the New York Times on Monday to call on U.S. authorities to drop criminal charges…

News

Fauci Deposition Shows Systemic U.S. Censorship Campaign

By Steve RobinsonNovember 28, 20221 News

Dr. Anthony Fauci sat last week for a seven-hour deposition taken by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana as…

Commentary

Patten Goes to Twitter

By Sam PattenNovember 28, 20220 Commentary

No less than three men in crisp, black uniforms helped guide me to an available spot in the garage beneath…

Commentary

Climate Change Alarmism is About Control, Not Maine’s Environment

By Jonathan ReismanNovember 28, 20220 Commentary

For more than 30 years, Americans have been propagandized with a climate alarmist apocalyptic message: global warming (now climate change)…

SBF, Still a Free Man, to Speak at New York Times Confab

By Steve RobinsonNovember 25, 20222 News

Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced founder of a now-bankrupt crypto empire that appears to have engaged in securities fraud, accounting fraud, and…

News

Watch: Steve Robinson on Mass COVID-19 Spyware with Newsmax

By The Maine WireNovember 23, 20221 News

Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined Newsmax’s National Report to talk about The Maine Wire’s coverage of a lawsuit against…

News

ACLU Defends Massachusetts COVID-19 Spyware Hacking in Half-Assed Boston Globe Story

By Steve RobinsonNovember 23, 20221 News

In a bizarre Boston Globe story, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts expressed skepticism of a lawsuit against the…

News

Maine GOP: Not Our Fault We Lost Big Races

By Steve RobinsonNovember 23, 20220 News

The Maine Republican Party is not to blame for Maine Republicans losing early and often on Election Day, according to…

News

NBC “Disinformation” Reporters Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny’s Bad Week

By Steve RobinsonNovember 23, 20222 News

It’s not a great time to be working the so-called “disinformation” beat. For the uninitiated, the “disinformation” reporter is a…

News

More Free Advice for Trump Special Counsel Jack Smith

By Sam PattenNovember 23, 20220 News

One of the great things about being Jack Smith is the sheer number of well-meaning people who want to help…

News

GHRT: Posik on Gov. Mills Anti-Journalist Schemes

By The Maine WireNovember 23, 20221 News

Maine Policy Institute Communications Director Jacob Posik joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler radio program Monday morning to talk…

News

Elon Musk’s Twitter Savages Wall Street Journal’s Bogus Story Tying SBF’s FTX to Trump

By Steve RobinsonNovember 22, 20222 News

There’s reaching for a headline and there’s … whatever the Wall Street Journal was trying to do with this gem…

Maine and New England

Massachusetts, Maine Struggle to Fund Illegal Immigrant, Asylum Seeker Emergency Housing

By Steve RobinsonNovember 22, 20223 Maine and New England

The New England states are facing a looming crisis over how to pay for housing for tens of thousands of…

News

Eight Stories Maine Media Thought Were More Interesting Than Gov. Mills’ Attack on Press Freedom

By Steve RobinsonNovember 22, 20225 News

The Maine Wire revealed Monday that Gov. Janet Mills tried to lean on the Maine Press Association to establish a…

News

Fake Meat Company’s Factory is Filthy: Whistleblower

By The Maine WireNovember 22, 20221 News

Beyond Meat was a viral sensation that’s now viral in a whole different way. The company sells artificial “meat” made…

News

Massachusetts Officials Refuse to Say Who Authorized Illegal COVID-19 Spyware

By Steve RobinsonNovember 21, 20221 News

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Dept. of Public Health Commissioner Margret R. Cooke are refusing to say who authorized the…

News

New Trump Special Counsel Met with IRS’ Lois Lerner on Targeting Tea Party Groups

By Steve RobinsonNovember 21, 20221 News

The special counsel Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Friday to investigate former President Donald Trump, Jack Smith, formerly ran the…

News

CBS Decides Hunter Biden’s Laptop No Longer Russian Disinformation

By The Maine WireNovember 21, 20220 News

When the New York Post first broke the story that an abandoned laptop contained a treasure trove of incriminating evidence…

News

Posik: Mainstream Outlets Mute on Mills’ Attempts to Violate First Amendment

By Jacob PosikNovember 21, 20223 News

On October 6, 2021, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) had…

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Letter Reveals Mills Sought White List for Maine Media in Bid to Block Critical Coverage

By Steve RobinsonNovember 21, 20220 News

The administration of Gov. Janet Mills sought the creation of a novel credentialing system for journalists last October in a…

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LSAT’s Are Out as American Bar Association Chases Diversity

By Steve RobinsonNovember 21, 20220 News

The American Bar Association (ABA) is ditching the infamous Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) in a bid to improve the…

News

Disney Board Fires Woke CEO Bob Chapek

By Steve RobinsonNovember 21, 20223 News

Media executive Robert A. Chapek, who became CEO of the Walt Disney Company in 2020, is stepping down, the Disney…

News

Top FTX Executive Nishad Singh Gave Maine Democrats $100,000

By Steve RobinsonNovember 18, 20221 News

The Maine Democratic Party received $100,000 in campaign cash that may be the product of ill gotten gains from Sam…

News

Massachusetts Secretly Installed COVID Spyware App on Smart Phones: Lawsuit

By Steve RobinsonNovember 18, 20221 News

[Editor’s Note: Readers are asking how to find out if this app is on their Android device. A tipster says…

News

Maine Democrats Pick Speaker Who Resigned from Portland Amid Parking Controversy

By Steve RobinsonNovember 18, 20221 News

The Maine House Democrats on Thursday selected the legislators who will lead the caucus in the upcoming session of the…

News

Democrats Poised to Make Election Denier New House Leader

By Steve RobinsonNovember 18, 20221 News

Congressional Democrats are looking for a replacement for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA-04), and they may be leaning toward one of…

News

Public Record Requests are “Hate Speech” says Maine Right-to-Know Committee Member

By Steve RobinsonNovember 17, 20221 News

A member of the Maine’s “Right to Know” advisory committee, which advises the legislature on Freedom of Access Act and…

Commentary

TMW: Maine Freedom of Access Under Attack

By The Maine WireNovember 17, 20221 Commentary

Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, a critical tool journalists and citizens can use to hold state and local governments accountable,…

News

Legendary Stock Options Trader Steps Back from Congressional Leadership

By The Maine WireNovember 17, 20221 News

U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat who became a centimillionaire through shrewd stock market trading during her career…

News

House Oversight to Probe Joe Biden’s Role in Hunter’s Foreign Deals

By Steve RobinsonNovember 17, 20221 News

Incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and incoming House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jorden (R-Ohio) said Thursday…

Sports & Entertainment

Tom Brady, David Ortiz Named in FTX Lawsuit

By The Maine WireNovember 17, 20222 Sports & Entertainment

New England Sports legends Tom Brady and David Ortiz are among the high-profile celebrities who endorsed failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX…

News

San Fran Mayor Touts Welfare-for-Transgender Program

By Steve RobinsonNovember 17, 20221 News

The fourth largest city in California — San Francisco — has announced it will begin offering $1,200 per month in…

News

One of Maine’s Biggest School Districts Can’t Pay Janitors, Bus Drivers, and Lunch Ladies On Time; Teachers Unaffected

By Steve RobinsonNovember 17, 20220 News

Gov. Janet Mills and Legislative Democrats met the statewide commitment to fund 55 percent of Maine’s public schools, but that…

Read the Hilarious FTX Bankruptcy Filing

By Steve RobinsonNovember 17, 20222 News

As far as Chapter 11 First Day Pleadings go, the FTX filing is an entertaining read. I know this story…

News

London-based Radical Environmentalists Level Unscientific Smear Against Maine Lobstering Industry

By Steve RobinsonNovember 16, 20221 News

A London-based international non-profit has suspended its “sustainability” certification for the Maine lobstering industry over concerns about whales getting tangled…

News

Chuck Schumer Calls for Citizenship for All Illegal Aliens

By Steve RobinsonNovember 16, 20222 News

Congress is back in Washington, D.C., and so it’s back to business as usual. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck…

News

Biden’s Proposed Plan To Address Diesel Shortages Could Hike Prices Even Further

By DCNFNovember 16, 20221 News

Jack McEvoy – The Daily Caller News Foundation — on November 15, 2022 President Joe Biden is proposing a plan that…

News

How Much Money Has the U.S. Spent on the Russian Proxy War in Ukraine?

By Steve RobinsonNovember 16, 20225 News

Several Republican Members of Congress are escalating calls for a forensic audit of U.S. military and non-military aid to Ukraine…

Commentary

Patten: Ukraine military aid is a good investment

By Sam PattenNovember 16, 20221 Commentary

During the midterm campaign period, then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy cast doubt on future spending in support of Ukraine’s defense.…

News

Bankrupt FTX Gave $18.2M to Early COVID-19 Researchers Who Cast Doubt on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20221 News

Samuel Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt and scandal-plagued cryptocurrency empire gave $18.25 million to early COVID-19 researchers whose findings cast doubt on the…

News

Let’s Give Another $37 Billion to Ukraine, says White House

By The Maine WireNovember 15, 20221 News

The White House asked Congress on Tuesday to send another $37 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine as it…

Education

Teachers Union: We know better than parents

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20221 Education

The National Education Association (NEA), America’s second largest teachers’ union, set off a firestorm over the weekend with a tweet…

News

Beware the Digital Dollar and CBDCs

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20221 News

The New York Federal Reserve Bank has entered a partnership with major global banks to test the concept of a…

National

G20 Nation to Help Mentally Ill Kill Themselves

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20220 National

An authoritarian government that in recent years has cracked down on firearm ownership and cutoff political dissidents from the financial…

News

Matt Dunlap, Now Qualified, Makes Second Go at Auditor

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20220 News

Former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap is making another run at the position of State Auditor after he was forced…

News

FBI Dir. Chris Wray Refuses to Say Whether FBI Had Agents in Jan. 6 Crowd

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20221 News 1K Views

At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) asked FBI Director Christopher Wray point blank…

New York Times Whitewashes SBF’s Ponzi Scheme

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20223 Top News

The New York Times managed to get what is right now the hottest interview in the world: Sam Bankman-Fried, the…

News

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Collapse Touches Ukraine, the World Economic Forum, Silicon Valley and Both Sides of D.C.

By Steve RobinsonNovember 15, 20221 News

Sam Bankman-Fried is a name you’re going to hear a lot about over the next year – and rightly so.…

Energy & Environment

Home Heating Oil Prices Hit Record High in Maine

By Steve RobinsonNovember 14, 20220 Energy & Environment

The cost for a gallon of heating oil in Maine has hit a record high. Mainers should expect to pay…

National

Ted Cruz Wants “Epic” GOP Fight Over IRS Expansion

By The Maine WireNovember 14, 20220 National

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said Monday the GOP should fight tooth-and-nail against a Democrat-backed proposal that would expand the…

News

Maine Human Rights Commission Votes to Dismiss Transgender Student’s Discrimination Complaint Against USM

By Steve RobinsonNovember 14, 20221 News

The Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) on Nov. 7 voted to dismiss a Woolwhich transgender student’s complaint of discrimination against…

News

Body Cam Footage Contradicts DOJ Account of Paul Pelosi Attack

By The Maine WireNovember 14, 20221 News

Mystery still surrounds the horrific attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi at the couple’s home in San…

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Lockman: Weak Republicans Turned Maine Blue

By Larry LockmanNovember 14, 20221 Commentary

Now that we’ve had a week or so to reflect on the blue wave that crashed over Maine on Election…

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Conley: Update the Child Tax Credit

By Carroll ConleyNovember 14, 20221 Commentary

Growing up as an 10th generation Mainer taught me many things. Foremost among them was the importance of family and…

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Troy Jackson to Head Senate Democrats

By The Maine WireNovember 11, 20220 Politics

State Sen. Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) will once again lead the Democratic caucus in the Maine Senate following leadership elections Thursday…

News

Mills’ Weed Guy Moves from Making Cannabis Rules to Consulting for Cannabis Firms

By Steve RobinsonNovember 11, 20220 News

The former executive director of Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy left state government this year to start a new joint…

News

‘Do Not Reward Mediocrity’: Tucker Carlson Says GOP Needs To Replace Leadership After ‘Frustrating’ Midterm Results

By DCNFNovember 11, 20222 News

Harold Hutchison – Daily Caller News Foundation – on November 9, 2022 Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Republican leadership in…

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The Race for Maine House Minority Leader Has Begun

By Steve RobinsonNovember 11, 20220 News

Maine Republicans have already decided on who will lead the 13-member Republican caucus in the State Senate, but the contest…

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Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Unravels Three Days After Midterms

By Steve RobinsonNovember 11, 20221 Top News

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which many viewed as an illegal ploy to court millennial voters, has gone…

News

Billionaire Crypto Bro Who Gave Democrats $40 Million Files For Bankruptcy, Resigns as FTX CEO

By Steve RobinsonNovember 11, 202211 News

Sam Bankman-Fried, known in the cryptocurrency community simply as SBF, became a poster child for the industry after he cozied…

News

Stewart, Keim Emerge As Maine Senate Minority Leaders

By Steve RobinsonNovember 10, 20221 News

Senators-elect Trey Stewart (R-Aroostook) and Lisa Keim (R-Oxford) have been elected to leadership positions in the 13-member Republican Senate caucus.…

Politics

Right-Wing Firebrand Lauren Boebert Takes Lead in CO House Election

By The Maine WireNovember 10, 20221 Politics

In Colorado’s Third Congressional District, incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert has pulled ahead of Democrat Adam Frisch with 98 percent…

Commentary

Patten: 2022 Tantrum Shows GOP Needs to Get Over Trump

By Sam PattenNovember 10, 20220 Commentary

The day after the Republican Party’s humiliating under-performance in Tuesday’s mid-term election, I received an email from Donald J. Trump.…

Maine and New England

New York Times Already Pushing for Child Masking in Schools

By Steve RobinsonNovember 10, 20220 Maine and New England

Less than two days after the 2022 midterm elections, the paper of record for the American left is already signaling…

News

Did Maine Gov. Janet Mills Fake a Phone Call from Angus King on Election Night?

By Steve RobinsonNovember 10, 20221 News

Maine Gov. Janet Mills was ecstatic Tuesday night after it appeared she’d sailed to victory over former Republican Gov. Paul…

Top News

Lewiston Reporter Praises Maine’s First Somali-American Rep, Fails to Mention His Son Was Her Treasurer

By Steve RobinsonNovember 10, 20221 Top News

The Lewiston Sun Journal’s Steve Collins wrote a gushing profile about a young Lewiston community organizer, Mana Hared Abdi, who…

Top News

Biden Greenlights Fed Fishing Expedition Into Musk After Twitter Purchase

By Steve RobinsonNovember 10, 20220 Top News

President Joe Biden gave the green light Wednesday to federal authorities to begin investigating Elon Musk following his acquisition of…

News

Maine House Republicans Already Vying for New Leadership Spots

By Steve RobinsonNovember 9, 20221 News

Less than 24 hours after the polls closed on Election Day, the surviving House Republicans have already begun throwing their…

Maine State Police Make Arrest in 26-Year-Old Hancock Cold Case

By Steve RobinsonNovember 9, 20220 Sports & Entertainment

The Maine State Police arrested 56-year-old Jason Follette on Wednesday in connection with the sexual assault of a now 47-year-old…

Politics

2022 Autopsy: Maine Republicans Need Fundamental Transformation and New Leaders

By Steve RobinsonNovember 9, 202235 Politics

It’s difficult to overstate just how horrible last night went for Maine Republicans. Truly, the 2022 Maine elections will go…

News

Patten: Maine GOP Needs New Leadership After Rout

By Sam PattenNovember 9, 20221 News

Chances are you learn more from defeat than victory. Success, the old saying goes, has a thousand fathers while failure…

News

Republicans Trounced as Maine Democrats Control Augusta for Two More Years

By Steve RobinsonNovember 9, 20220 News

The Maine Republican Party lost early, often, and everywhere Tuesday despite predictions of nationwide backlash against an unpopular president and…

News

Maine Socialists Win Rent Control in Portland, Lose Minimum Wage Hike and Airbnb Regs

By Steve RobinsonNovember 8, 20220 News

The Maine Democratic Socialists of America viewed Portland as a proving ground for progressive city reforms, but even the overwhelmingly…

News

George Soros-backed DA Takes Office in Cumberland County

By The Maine WireNovember 8, 20220 News

An environmental activist and attorney who won the Democratic Party primary with the help of more than $300,000 from far-left…

Featured

Maine Wire Election Center: Mills Wins, Poliquin Headed to Runoff

By Steve RobinsonNovember 8, 20220 Featured

UPDATE 10:26 pm: A disappointing night for Republicans across the state of Maine. State Senate and House races will be…

News

AZ Voting Meltdown as Lake, Masters Look to Upset Dems

By Steve RobinsonNovember 8, 20220 News

UPDATE: Republicans Blake Masters and Kari Lake have filed suit against Maricopa County to keep the polls open following ballot…

Top News

Maine State, Local Tax Collections Headed for Record Haul in 2022

By The Maine WireNovember 8, 20220 Top News

Total taxes collected from state and local government in 2022 in Maine are headed for the highest level ever recorded.…

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