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President Biden may have admitted “the pandemic is over” with regard to COVID-19, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be…
On February 7, 1968, after American military forces rained rockets, napalm, and bombs on the village of Ben Tre in…
From early March 2020 through the summer, when discussions about whether to close and reopen schools because of COVID-19 were…
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) worked with several interest groups in the state to coordinate COVID-19 messaging and guidelines…
As the summer of 2020 progressed, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) continued communications with interest groups in the state,…
In August 2021 Science Magazine, a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, highlighted groundbreaking…
According to NBC News, there are 4 million fewer students enrolled in college than there were 10 years ago, and there…
When voters were asked by Pew Research, prior to the 2020 election, what issues were most important to them, education…
A massive federal bailout of state and local governments during the pandemic had a negligible effect on overall employment levels…
News reports say the Biden administration is currently weighing a plan that would allow all adults to receive a second…
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that mask mandates did little to nothing to curb the spread of Covid-19.…
The Board of Osteopathic Licensure restored Paul Gosselin’s license to practice medicine on June 15. It had been suspended in…
Is it possible that despite the mounting evidence against them, some lockdown enthusiasts are still unwilling to let go of…
Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce…
It’s been two week since a federal court threw out the CDC’s transport mask mandate, to the glee of some…
A new study recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that students with greater access to…
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…
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, even alarmist government officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci have admitted that it’s time to…
Inflation has surged across much of the developed world in the past year as COVID-19 lockdowns eased and pent-up demand…
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…
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.…
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…
It takes incredible arrogance for lawmakers and bureaucrats to assume they know what’s best for us. But that quality—arrogance—is precisely what we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic.
We’re into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. From mask mandates to vaccine passports, government restrictions on our liberties remain…
Maine’s truancy rate tripled between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, increasing from just under 5% to just under 15%.…
On Saturday, newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, declared an end to mask mandates in the state’s public…
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided new research showing that, during the recent Delta…
On January 13, the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)…
On January 12, while driving, I listened to the Maine CDC’s weekly COVID-19 briefing conducted by Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and…
On January 12, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced…
St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston has implemented a policy allowing employees who test positive for COVID-19 to come to work…
On January 10, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a joint temporary action…
The NCAA on Thursday released its new COVID-19 guidance for winter sports, and the guidance contains some important news. As…
Yesterday, the first legislative day of the second session of the 130th Legislature, majority Democrats moved to return to remote…
The second session of the 130th Maine Legislature began on January 5, with both the Senate and House of Representatives…
It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling.…
The Portland City Council voted to repeal the city’s declaration of emergency and implement an indoor mask mandate at its…
On December 30, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Maine Department of Education (DOE) announced…
The Mills administration has announced no plans to provide at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for Maine residents, but at-home tests may…
The number of students enrolled in Maine public schools grew in the 2021-2022 school year from the 2020-2021 school year,…
Eight Maine hospitals will host federal ambulance teams, which will assist the state’s emergency medical services (EMS) workers with non-emergency…
Federal appeals courts recently issued two decisions impacting federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements mandated by President Joe Biden earlier this year.…
Less than one week after announcing she was activating up to 75 members of the National Guard to serve in…
“Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science,” said Anthony Fauci to widespread ridicule or approval, depending upon which…
Earlier this year, schools around the country received more than a hundred billion dollars from the federal government—American taxpayers, in…
Gov. Janet Mills appeared at a December 8 press conference held by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases…
Maine’s rate of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes is currently the highest in the nation according to data provided by…
It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a…
Politicians have been on a high over the last year-plus, wielding extraordinary power with the approval of voters fearful of…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Department of Education (DOE) are currently accepting 30-second videos from…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on November 10 released its final rule updating the immunization requirements…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills announced on November 10 it will soon begin distributing “disaster relief payments” passed as…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 6 granted an emergency stay of the Occupational Safety…
With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in…
A recent analysis of the data in Maine CDC’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard revealed that, while rates of…
Maine’s requirement that healthcare workers at designated healthcare facilities be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 went into enforcement on October 29.…
Many parents pulled their children out of school last year for homeschooling and other private options, as schools remained shuttered…
As of October 7, there have been just under 3,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in Maine schools within the last…
The Maine Legislature’s Republican leadership sent a letter to their Democratic counterparts on October 12 urging them to reconvene the…
As one-size-fits-all COVID vaccine mandates sweep government, academia, and corporate America, new data are emerging that undermine the public health…
As the date of enforcement for Gov. Janet Mills’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers approaches, hospitals and emergency medical…
On Monday, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona touted new academic research to show that masks have been effective at reducing…
Since the world learned of a novel coronavirus emerging from Wuhan, China in December 2019, there has been no shortage…
The pandemic was a test of America’s public health bureaucracy. It failed.
Maine’s Legislative Council voted to reinstate its COVID-19 Prevention Policy, which requires face masks to be worn in the State…
On September 9th, President Joe Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency tasked with regulating workplace safety,…
According to the Maine Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Workforce Research and Information, the number of nonfarm payroll jobs…
During a September 15 meeting of the legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs, Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Pender…
This fall may be the biggest moment of truth for public education since the 1970s. After seeing enrollment in government-run…
According to Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew, Maine healthcare workers will not be able to…
Gov. Janet Mills’ administration recently announced it is awarding Maine hospitals and long-term care facilities $146 million to support workforce…
A newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant…
The ACLU on Tuesday announced it is bringing a lawsuit against South Carolina over its mask policy. The Palmetto State…
On August 12, Maine Governor Janet Mills issued an emergency rule change through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…
Jennifer Bridges knew what was coming when her director at Houston Methodist hospital called her up in June to inquire…
At the end of July, Governor Mills and the Maine CDC issued a recommendation that all K-12 students wear face…
A viral Instagram post claimed that COVID-19 is 99 percent survivable for most age groups—the elderly being an important exception. The post…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced a new vaccine requirement for healthcare workers on August 12, and it didn’t take long…
On August 12, Gov. Janet Mills announced that all Maine healthcare workers will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19…
Over a recent 12-day period the Milwaukee Brewers had nine players test positive for COVID-19. While we don’t know the…
On August 6, the Maine Department of Labor (DOL) announced that approximately 7,400 unemployment claimants receiving federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance…
Last week I received a letter from my children’s school district. “We will start the school year this fall -…
On August 4, just days after allowing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium to expire…
As the data stand right now, deaths are not on pace with new infections across the country, and we are still in a much better position in the pandemic than just a few months ago, so let’s act like it.
On July 28, Gov. Janet Mills announced updates to Maine’s recommendations for wearing face coverings in indoor settings. The state…
In another attempt to “follow the science,” a pediatrics group has issued guidance that does the exact opposite. The American…
On July 19, the Maine Legislature voted to approve a plan for spending the $1.1 billion the state received from…
Individual responsibility and autonomy will always outweigh government coercion, and that includes getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
According to data provided by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of July 6, 44.5% of…
In its July 5 piece, the editorial board of the Bangor Daily News opines that while Governor Mills’ 15-months-plus-long State…
COVID-19 vaccines: a personal choice or a workplace requirement? Well, to Maine’s top hospital group, the answer is a requirement.…
A new Harvard analysis of various data points throughout the pandemic shows that poor Americans, those earning under $27,000 a…
The primary finding of the study was that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality actually increased, not decreased.
The picture painted is one of working-class destruction.