Patriots Win Super Bowl After a perfect fourth quarter drive and an end-zone interception in the final seconds of the…
Browsing: Daily Catch
Okay, yesterday was a pretty busy day in Maine politics… let’s see if we can fit them all in here.…
Fairpoint Talks Resume On Sunday, Fairpoint Communications resumed negotiations with the union representing striking workers across New England. Neither side…
Fairpoint Wins Major Ruling In a tough ruling against the Fairpoint strikers, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that…
Governor Appoints Education Commissioner Due to health concerns, Governor LePage has replaced Education Commissioner James Rier with historian Tom Desjardin. …
Petroleum Prices Persistently Plummet For anyone who’s had to fill their gas tank over the last several days, this won’t…
Portland Looks to Regulate Uber In a desperate attempt to seem relevant, Portland officials are looking to regulate Uber, the…
Money Has Too Much Influence Except when it doesn’t. The final finance reports of the 2014 gubernatorial race show that…
Sony Hackers Threaten Theaters The individuals behind the Sony hack, who up to this point have released tons of private…
Can’t Get Enough Cod Stories If you haven’t heard enough about the state of cod in the Gulf of Maine…
No Minimum Wage Increase for Portland…. Yet. After discussing a minimum wage increase in Portland last night, Portland’s Financial Committee…
Three Cheers for Integrity Check out MHPC CEO Matt Gagnon’s thoughtful piece up on his Pine Tree Politics blog about…
Protests in Portland Over the weekend, two protests were held in Portland over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.…
Scallop Season is Open Maine’s scallop fishing season begins today. While the scallop stock has been recovering for years, officials with…
Unrest Continues Protests continued in Ferguson, Missouri last night over the results of a grand jury investigation into police officer…
Not Indicted Yesterday, a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on several charges, including the first-degree…
You Can Come Out Now! Today marks the end of Kaci Hickox’s incubation period! Hickox has faced numerous threats of quarantine…
Contradiction: In a CBS “60 Minutes” interview, President Barack Obama admitted that his foreign policy plans in Syria were…
Media Flips on Michaud: The mainstream press is starting to turn on U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, Democratic candidate for governor.…
Kerry Gives Putin Monday Deadline: Secretary of State John Kerry has given Russian President until Monday to alter course in…
Solidarity: It’s common knowledge that Maine Democrats march in lockstep with labor unions. But Senate President Justin Alfond (D-Portland) showed…
Medicaid Expansion Back Again: Lawmakers in Augusta will likely consider a bill to expand Medicaid this week, although there is…
Medicaid: After early indications that Democratic leaders were attempting to move a Medicaid expansion bill out of committee Wednesday and…
Big Brother FCC Enters Newsrooms: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing to send spies researchers into newsrooms across the…
Liberals rush to protect the Sweetser Speaker: After 26 House Republicans signed a letter asking House Speaker Mark W. Eves…
Obamacare Chaos: President Obama has once again unilaterally changed his signature health care law without Congress. From CNSNews.com: “President Barack…