On Tuesday the usual cast of welfare industry characters came out to attack the bipartisan effort to fix Maine’s Temporary…
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AUGUSTA – The talk was all about welfare Tuesday as the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee debated four bills…
AUGUSTA – Republican leaders gathered at the State House on Monday to call on Democrats to support an effort to…
AUGUSTA – Public hearings have been scheduled for a full slate of welfare reform proposals introduced by House Republican Leader…
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart blasted Fox News for reporting on welfare abuse. For Stewart, it is beyond the pale to…
Cumberland County GOP: Talk radio legend Howie Carr headlined the Cumberland County Republican convention Saturday. Carr told an audience of…
Big Brother in the Newsroom (update): After learning yesterday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is sending researchers into newsrooms…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivered his third State of the State address Tuesday night, using the opportunity to…
Following The Maine Wire’s exclusive investigation into Maine’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash welfare program, liberal media pundits…
Sweetser, a non-profit social services agency and major Medicaid beneficiary, has received nearly $2.5 million from no-bid, sole-sourced contracts with…
Maine Wire Editor Steve Robinson joined Howie Carr on Monday to recap his investigation into welfare abuse in Maine. Listen…
They may be on welfare, but that doesn’t stop them from vacationing. According to an analysis of the Temporary Assistance…
Maine’s welfare system is supposed to provide a social safety net for poor families, but an analysis of the Temporary…
Cash welfare recipients in Maine may have spent portions of their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) allotment at bowling…
AUGUSTA – Gary Alexander, founder and president of The Alexander Group, on Tuesday presented his report on a proposal to…
Maine welfare cash has been used at two amusement parks in Saco, according to Department of Health and Human Services…
On Thursday, The Maine Heritage Policy Center, which owns and operates The Maine Wire, made public three years’ worth of…
Maine Wire Editor Steve Robinson joined talk radio host Howie Carr on Tuesday to talk about his investigation into abuse…
AUGUSTA – Top Republicans reacted to The Maine Wire’s exclusive report on the scope of welfare abuse in Maine with…
“The reality is that we lack any systematic evidence that such “misuse” is widespread.” – Robert W. Glover, University of…
The battle lines have been drawn for the coming session of the Maine Legislature. In one corner stands the reigning…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage said Tuesday that he plans to reintroduce two pieces of welfare reform Democrats…
AUGUSTA – Fixing Maine’s sprawling Department of Health and Human Services programs will fall on Gov. Paul LePage’s shoulders once…
Speaker of the House Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick) took to the pages of MaineToday Media’s Kennebec Journal Friday in…
What does a conservative writer read? While the half-dozen names (plus one) on this admittedly partial list may not be…
AUGUSTA – House Republicans rolled out two welfare reforms on Monday targeting Maine’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash…
By Paul Blair — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has friends in Portland, Maine. They’ve taken his call to impose government…
AUGUSTA – Maine lawmakers heard testimony on Monday concerning Right-to-Work legislation that would make labor union membership voluntary for Maine…
During the 2012 election, much ado was made over Cleveland resident Michelle Dowery’s rant in a viral YouTube video about…
Maine Department of Labor spent more than $6.5 million from 2008 to 2012 on “training and support” for 851 Mainers…
AUGUSTA – Amid Friday’s debate over whether to raise Maine’s minimum wage law, some Democrats fear doing so might make…
By Rachel Sheffield Heritage Foundation Last summer, the Obama Administration gutted the successful 1996 welfare reform law by offering to waive its…
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation The controversy over the Obama Administration’s gutting of welfare reform continues to grow. Two new…
By David Sorensen Maine Republican Party Welfare reform is one of the most important initiatives that Maine and America can…
By Robert Rector The Heritage Foundation Last month, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally overturned the work…
Now that a week has passed since the murder of 12 people with firearms in the hands of a lunatic…
I guess, if I had to stand in a crowd listening to President Obama brag about what he’s done so…
Everyone believes that mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias, right? Well, a UCLA professor says he has actually proven…
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, “The…
by Terrilyn Simpson Maine State Housing Authority Director Dale McCormick is predicting a huge payback on the carbon offset project…
Maine State Housing Director Dale McCormick has entered into a deal with Chevrolet to sell carbon offset credits from the…
What she wrote on Dec. 13 has become hugely controversial. She’s been accused of being a racist; she’s gotten five…