On May 14, 18-year-old Payton Gendron traveled more than 200 miles from his hometown to a predominantly Black neighborhood of…
If you’ve ever been to the state of Oregon – home of the “other” Portland – you only need to…
After failing to disclose a vote of no confidence in the incoming University of Maine at Augusta’s (UMA) leadership, University…
As a result of its information retention practices related to privacy and the First Amendment, the Maine Information and Analysis…
Americans are already struggling under the weight of crippling inflation, from skyrocketing gas prices to exorbitant grocery bills. And even…
It wasn’t long ago that Democrats were claiming that the For the People Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and the John Lewis…
Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF) would write new rules to bring the state’s hemp program into line…
When the legislature returned to Augusta for veto day on May 9, lawmakers failed to override a single one of…
It’s been two week since a federal court threw out the CDC’s transport mask mandate, to the glee of some…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ office released draft rules on May 5 detailing how the agency would review vanity license…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving fast to close off what seems to be the last remaining legal…
A law related to pay for vacation time at the end of employment that was enacted in April has the…
Harm reductionists praise Maine’s new Good Samaritan law. I’m not sure it’s deserved. I will explain why because I don’t expect anyone…
Sometimes I have to remind myself how good we Americans have it because—let’s face it—there is a lot of bad…
Though a new rule from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration affecting the gear lobster fisherman can use has gone…
Gov. Janet Mills has so far vetoed two bills passed during the 130th Legislature’s second session, and more vetoes could…
Though the 130th Maine Legislature will return to Augusta for a veto day on May 9, there are a number…
Maine is embracing new California-style laws aimed at reducing restrictions on new housing. It could soon run into some of…
A new study recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that students with greater access to…
On April 27, Gov. Janet Mills signed LD 2003 into law. The bill was finally passed by the legislature on…
With the 130th Maine Legislature’s second session completed, except for a veto day to be held May 9, several tobacco-related…
On April 18, Florida federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle invalidated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) order requiring that passengers wear masks on…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature met on April 25 for the final regular meeting of the 130th Legislature. Lawmakers…
Bureaucrats cling to power. It’s their institutional predisposition. So it was no surprise on Wednesday when the Department of Justice…
The last couple of years have been a revelation when it comes to public health measures for battling COVID-19 and…
Last week, while driving toward the peninsula on Outer Congress Street around Craigie Street, I passed a seemingly able-bodied woman…
Lawmakers in both the House of Representatives and Senate met on April 20 and extended the second legislative session, statutorily…
Last week, LD 2003, a bill sponsored by Speaker Ryan Fecteau to reform local and state-level housing policy, passed engrossment votes in…
Mainers deserve access to high-quality health care with an affordable price tag. Following the events of the last two years,…
Both the House of Representative and the Senate convened on April 19 for the penultimate day of the 130th Legislature’s…
With only three days left in the 130th Legislature’s second session, both the Senate and House of Representatives held sessions…
In March, Maine’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, a decrease from February’s 4 percent unemployment rate. According to the Maine…
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, even alarmist government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have admitted that it’s time to…
The Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) met late on the evening of April 14 and voted unanimously to…
The trend of people quitting Portland government (councilors Nicholas Mavodones, Jill Duson, Spencer Thibodeau, city manager Jon Jennings, police chief…
Tax Day is a fitting day to revisit where our tax-and-spend ways have gotten us. When the president’s own stimulus-spending…
With one week left in the legislative session and work on the supplemental budget still unfinished, both the Senate and…
Inflation has surged across much of the developed world in the past year as COVID-19 lockdowns eased and pent-up demand…
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), an electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a comparable internal…
On April 7, the Maine Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee voted 8 to 4 to adopt a new sponsor’s amendment…
(If you read my column “Have We No Recourse?”, this column is intended as a sequel to that one.) To…
The Maine Senate on April 7 voted to indefinitely postpone a bill that would have doubled the state’s vehicle inspection…
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data now show fentanyl overdose to be the top cause of death…
How can we end the cycle of recrimination from which we are suffering and restore faith in our government? We…
The House of Representatives on April 5 failed to pass a bill that would have created a ballot question asking…
Another day, another alarming inflation metric. We just got the numbers for the Personal Consumption Expenditures index (PCE), the Federal…
The 130th Maine Legislature is currently scheduled to adjourn its second session on April 20, giving legislators a little more…
It’s hard to decide who is worse, actor Jussie Smollett, who faked a racist and homophobic attack in order to…
Over the last year, frequent communications from University of Maine System leaders Chancellor Malloy and UM/UMM President Ferrini-Mundy endorsed “equity”…
A bill to keep veterans’ homes in Machias and Caribou open was passed by the Senate and signed into law…
For the last two school years, Maine has received a waiver from the federal government exempting it from federal reporting…
Mandatory motor vehicle inspections already cost Mainers $14 million and countless hours of wasted time every single year, but just…
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate met on March 29 for the ninth legislative day of the 130th…
Despite inflation running at a 40-year high, the Biden administration is pushing ahead with plans to hike wages for federal…
As a physician – one who has dedicated his career to treating lung diseases – it has become clear to…
During a joint session of the Maine Legislature on March 24, the Senate finally passed 15 pieces of legislation. The…
Maine’s unemployment rate was 4 percent in February, a small change from January’s rate of 4.1 percent. The number of…
A disagreement between the presiding officers of the Maine Legislature––House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook)––resulted…
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature convened on March 22 for the first of two scheduled sessions this week. The…
On March 18, the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology held a work session on Gov. Janet Mills’…
In December of 1994, a United States Capitol Police Officer shot and killed Marcelino Corniel in front of the White House. Corniel…
During a work session on a bill proposing to return surplus money to taxpayers, Democrats on the Maine Legislature’s Committee…
Gov. Janet Mills unveiled her change package to the supplemental budget on March 18, which spends all but $20 million…
President Woodrow Wilson wanted a professional bureaucracy that was apolitical. The theory sounded great but was unfortunately based on a…
Ten months ago, Jeremy Siegel issued a dire warning about the trajectory of prices. “The money supply since the beginning…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Housing (LBHS) on March 16 voted to advance an amended version of Speaker of…
Weakness is a contagion. Years in the future, when the historians are done analyzing our present moment, they may well…
Maine’s unemployment rate was unchanged from December 2021 to January 2022. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1% in January. The…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) voted against a bill Monday that would have allowed Mainers…
Ghislane Maxwell’s attorneys say that three jurors concealed their experience of sexual abuse. One described in an interview with the…
This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news…
For the sixth time during the 130th Maine Legislature’s second session, the House of Representatives and Senate met on March…
Approximately five months after being forced to vacate the position of state auditor, Matt Dunlap has received internal auditor credentials.…
With the retail price of gasoline in Maine over $4 per gallon and matching the national average, Republican legislators seek…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Housing held a public hearing March 7 on a bill that would make…
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Health and Human Services (HHS) voted to advance two pieces of legislation which would replace…
I was working on several items closer to home but events in Ukraine overtook me. Last week was one of…
Maine’s Legislative Council voted unanimously on March 3 to change its requirement that legislators and staff wear masks inside the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Maine Department of Education (DOE) will drop its statewide recommendation…
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…
Maine’s General Fund revenue forecast will increase by approximately $411.6 million following a March 1 meeting of the Revenue Forecasting…
On February 28, Gov. Janet Mills signed a proclamation expressing solidarity with the people of Ukraine and called on the…
Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business convened on February 22 to hold a public hearing…
The Maine Legislature convened on February 23 to debate several pieces of legislation, including a bill that would ban the…
One of the basic functions of government is to right wrongs. When all else fails, we resort to the legal…
The Maine Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee held a public hearing February 22 on LD 1959, a bill presented…
Emil Westerlund recently left the University of Maine’s (UMaine) men’s ice hockey team because he did not want to receive…
At a “ladies night” fundraiser in Toronto in 2013, an up-and-coming politician was asked which nation’s administration he admired most…
Antitrust is a hot topic in Washington lately. The pervasive reach of big technology companies into our personal lives and…
At least nine Maine hospitals are not complying with a federal price transparency rule, according to the findings of a…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Housing held a public hearing on February 14 concerning LD 1673, a bill…
On February 15, Gov. Janet Mills released her supplemental budget proposal, which includes $850 million in proposed spending and provides…
On February 2nd, the 2022 Walk-for-Vets kicked off in Augusta. People are walking 2.2 miles in 22 states for a 22 day-long…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban recently announced his latest, ground-breaking innovation, and it’s one that should catch the attention of Americans.…
The New York Times Style Section’s Modern Love column on February 13 was entitled “What Is Black Love Today” and described as…
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public…
During her annual State of the State address, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to return $411 million of the…