Don’t let Gov. Janet Mills play you for a fool. In a recent press release, Mills took credit for Maine’s…
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LD 1045 sets the stage for a disastrous and expensive government takeover of Maine’s health care system.
The bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 123-23 and the Senate by a vote of 32-3. It received bipartisan support in both chambers.
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Sunday to advance a supplemental budget, and lawmakers in the House and Senate approved…
The Granite State passed a new budget last week that should have people in the Pine Tree State jealous of…
A measure that would have compensated for the expected loss in revenue from banning flavored tobacco was not included in…
A new bipartisan budget agreement might prove that lawmakers learned a valuable fiscal lesson from the fallout of the pandemic,…
This week, Maine lawmakers will vote on LD 221, Governor Janet Mills’ supplemental budget proposal. Also known as the governor’s…
On June 17, the Maine Legislature is expected to adjourn a special session without voting on the supplemental budget or…
Maine lawmakers convened at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday to tackle the state’s next two-year spending plan. The budget…
Maine’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee met on Thursday to hold a work session on LD 715, a concept draft…
The Maine Legislature will convene in person on Tuesday to approve the state’s next biennial budget, likely along party lines.…
It appears Maine Democrats are looking to advance a majority budget in the next week to avoid working with their…
State government spending has rapidly outpaced population growth in Maine over the last decade, according to a new report published…
Dire predictions about state budget woes turned out to be much too gloomy. Despite this, Democrats in Congress and the…
This week, the anti-tobacco organization “Flavors Hook Kids” held an online news conference for Maine media. During the event, leaders…
Governor Janet Mills wants to balance her bloated budget on the backs of struggling small business owners, forcing them to…
As I dig deeper into the recent supplemental and biennial budget proposals from Governor Janet Mills, the truth about her…
Maine Governor Janet Mills released the details of her second proposed biennial budget last Friday following a closed-door media briefing and multiple press…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills recently signed a curtailment order to keep the state’s budget stable during this seemingly never-ending period…
We are quickly approaching Labor Day and the end to the summer season here in Maine. When it comes to…
Unnecessary spending in Governor Janet Mills’ biennial budget, approved by Maine lawmakers in 2019, is going to come back to…
A little over one year into her tenure as governor, Janet Mills is responsible for an explosion of new spending…
On October 8, 2019, the Office of Aging and Disability Services (OADS) released their quarterly update regarding enrollment numbers for…
Both the Maine House and Senate voted Friday, June 14 in favor of approving a new biennial budget that Governor…
Since Governor Janet Mills released her biennial budget proposal in February, the fiscal landscape in Maine has changed significantly. The…
A few weeks ago, my radio address focused on the unsustainability of the biennial budget proposed by Governor Mills. Since…
The Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) on Monday released a new analysis of Gov. Janet Mills’ biennial budget proposal during…
When I first started serving in Augusta, in 2005, there was a long standing joke. Why are there no stone…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills is trying to pass off her budget proposal, released last Friday, as a reasonable approach to…
Last week I sent Governor-elect Janet Mills my administration’s recommended budget proposal. I called her attention to key measures I…
Now that Maine’s Government shutdown has been shut down, it’s appropriate to examine the drama’s plot, cast of characters, scene-setting,…
I submitted a budget more than six months ago and Democrats are going to try to blame the Governor’s Office…
As usual, the budget comes down to crunch time Folks, it’s déjà vu all over again. I submitted a balanced…
Where is the accountability in Augusta? Lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to establish a special committee designed to formulate a bipartisan…
Yes, I know, I know. This past November, voters narrowly passed a referendum presented by liberal special interest groups that…
I’ve said it for years, and I will say it again. There is no amount of your money the Legislature…
Interesting how the Democrats’ “Opportunity Agenda” converges with the British Labour Party’s recently leaked “transformational programme.” Although it’s generally acknowledged that…
