From early March 2020 through the summer, when discussions about whether to close and reopen schools because of COVID-19 were…
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The Maine Department of Education (DOE) worked with several interest groups in the state to coordinate COVID-19 messaging and guidelines…
High energy costs are making Maine increasingly unaffordable for people of average means. Misguided state energy policies are contributing to…
On August 18, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), part of the Department of the Interior (DOI), announced…
Earlier this month, the Treasury Department approved a plan to invest $110 million “to strengthen or expand broadband infrastructure across…
The $850 checks passed as part of the most recent supplemental budget deal will begin arriving in the mailboxes of…
When the legislature returned to Augusta for veto day on May 9, lawmakers failed to override a single one of…
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…
On April 27, Gov. Janet Mills signed LD 2003 into law. The bill was finally passed by the legislature on…
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…
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…
The 130th Maine Legislature is currently scheduled to adjourn its second session on April 20, giving legislators a little more…
Mandatory motor vehicle inspections already cost Mainers $14 million and countless hours of wasted time every single year, but just…
On March 18, the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology held a work session on Gov. Janet Mills’…
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…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Maine Department of Education (DOE) will drop its statewide recommendation…
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…
The Maine Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee held a public hearing February 22 on LD 1959, a bill presented…
On February 15, Gov. Janet Mills released her supplemental budget proposal, which includes $850 million in proposed spending and provides…
During her annual State of the State address, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to return $411 million of the…
The following is Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ State of the State Address as prepared for delivery on February 10, 2022:…
On February 7, Gov. Janet Mills unveiled an $8 million proposal intended to strengthen Maine’s child welfare system that will…
In late January, Gov. Janet Mills announced her administration has partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation to launch a pilot program…
Members of the Maine Legislature’s House of Representatives failed to override Gov. Janet Mills’ veto on Wednesday of a bill…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills will deliver the State of the State address on February 10. She will not release her…
The Mills administration has announced no plans to provide at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for Maine residents, but at-home tests may…
In March 2021, Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law requiring the Legislative Council to study the best method…
Less than one week after announcing she was activating up to 75 members of the National Guard to serve in…
Gov. Janet Mills appeared at a December 8 press conference held by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
At the Appropriation and Financial Affairs (AFA) Committee meeting on December 7, Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Commissioner…
Following its November 23 meeting, the Maine Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC) upgraded the state’s General Fund revenue forecast. The RFC…
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.…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
Gov. Janet Mills held a press conference on October 25 to announce funding for four programs intended to address Maine’s…
As the date of enforcement for Gov. Janet Mills’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers approaches, hospitals and emergency medical…
That darn First Amendment. This week, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
There are a growing number of legal challenges to Gov. Janet Mills’ requirement that healthcare workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine.…
The number of state legislators who have signed a letter calling for President Biden to reverse a recent decision that…
Gov. Janet Mills’ administration recently announced it is awarding Maine hospitals and long-term care facilities $146 million to support workforce…
On August 12, Maine Governor Janet Mills issued an emergency rule change through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…
The future of the Shawmut Dam remains in question. Following a draft ruling that announced the Maine Department of Environmental…
Though the legislature failed to override Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a bill that would have created a consumer-owned utility…
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…
The Maine Department of Labor’s (DOL) Back-to-Work grant program will close applications on Friday, August 6. The program allows employers…
It is far past time to reopen the border between the United States and Canada. Even Gov. Janet Mills agrees…
On July 28, Gov. Janet Mills announced updates to Maine’s recommendations for wearing face coverings in indoor settings. The state…
The unemployment rate in Maine remained stuck at 4.8% for the fifth straight month, according to recent report from the…
Don’t let Gov. Janet Mills play you for a fool. In a recent press release, Mills took credit for Maine’s…
Gov. Janet Mills fortunately stopped a sloppy, misguided attempt to put a loaded ballot question to voters in November, but…
On July 19, the Maine Legislature voted to approve a plan for spending the $1.1 billion the state received from…
Though the bill is dead, voters may still see the question LD 1708 would have posed on the ballot next November.
In recent months, we’ve heard a lot about child care in the news and from pundits. Whether it’s the so-called…
Saying “no emergency is going to be perfect,” Facteau outlined his hesitancy to limit the powers the governor has during a time of need in the interview.
Gov. Janet Mills held a press conference on Tuesday to announce her veto of LD 1708, which would have created…
On July 12, Gov. Janet Mills vetoed LD 1711, which would have allowed whistleblowers to bring a private enforcement action…
Gov. Janet Mills just missed the mark on two controversial and misguided pieces of legislation this week: an extended producer…
A bill that would strengthen protections against civil asset forfeiture, sponsored by Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor), became law…
Though the ban is a win for now, Mills’ next moves towards offshore wind must be vigilantly watched as future development plans take form just off of Maine’s shores.
LD 1117 would have accomplished nothing in terms of lowering prescription drug costs for Mainers, and Mills was right to veto it.
Though Maine’s state of emergency expired on June 30, some changes to rules and regulations instituted through executive order will remain in effect until the end of 2021.
If all 300 workers received the $1,500 benefit, the grant program has already paid out $45,000, or 4.5%, of the $10 million available.
The vetoes, among some of her other recent ones, are a welcome check on ever-expanding state power and restrictions of free markets.
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.
Between 2019 and 2020, drug deaths in Maine rose by 33% according to a report funded by the Maine Office…
Gov. Janet Mills made the right choice in vetoing LD 920, sponsored by Rep. Christopher Kessler (D-South Portland), a bill…
Should Mainers have to pay more in taxes for buying a new piece of real estate? The Legislature says yes,…
A new bipartisan budget agreement might prove that lawmakers learned a valuable fiscal lesson from the fallout of the pandemic,…
Imagine if California passed a law telling Maine lobstermen how much to charge for their lobsters – in Maine. The…
The governor’s office recently posted veto messages for seven bills rejected by Gov. Janet Mills, the first batch of vetoes…
Governor Mills recently signed into law several bills that affect campaigns and elections in the state of Maine. L.D. 1363:…
Bills passed by the Maine Legislature during its recently convened special session have begun making their way to Gov. Janet…
The Maine Legislature recently passed LD 1117, a bill that would prohibit excessive rises in generic and off-patent prescription drugs…
Even if the allegations in Loder’s lawsuit are not true, the fact that we can’t easily know is reason enough to close the doors of this poisonous arm of government overreach.
On June 16, Gov. Mills announced the creation of a sweepstakes for Mainers who have received at least one dose…
L.D. 231 aims to increase voter turnout and bipartisanship in an increasingly partisan era. In a stark and polarized time, it is refreshing to see lawmakers come together to pass meaningful election reform that transcends party lines.
This study on the nationwide impacts of the historically high UI has simply confirmed what many have been sounding the alarm on for weeks: if you pay people to stay home, they will.
On June 17, the Maine Legislature is expected to adjourn a special session without voting on the supplemental budget or…
On June 14, Gov. Mills announced a program to incentivize unemployed Mainers to return to work. Called “Back to Work,”…
On June 11, Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced she was renewing the state of civil emergency, which was set to…
On June 9, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) updated its PreK-12 and Adult Education Public Guidance. Though Gov. Janet…
A prominent refrain in the pandemic recession-recovery story has been the persistent labor shortage seen across the United States. Coupled…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills is on pace to exercise her executive authority almost twice as frequently as any of her…
Seven Maine lawmakers were stripped of their committee assignments on Monday by House Speaker Ryan Fecteau following a spat at…
Maine’s Department of Labor currently has no plans to end enhanced employment benefits.
Governor Janet Mills unveiled a new supplemental budget last week that would grow state spending in Maine to record levels,…
On Tuesday, Maine Governor Janet Mills joined President Joe Biden and a small group of US governors for a virtual…
Janet Mills is notorious for her abuses of power and seeming disregard for the best interests of Mainers in favor…
Maine’s Committee on State and Local Government held public hearings last Friday on two bills that would require a legislative…
On Tuesday, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced that he will lift all business restrictions, except for mandating masks indoors (including…
On Wednesday afternoon, Maine’s Health and Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing on LD 1344, a department bill…
Maine lawmakers convened at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday to tackle the state’s next two-year spending plan. The budget…
As many Mainers question the appropriateness of a year-long state of emergency, in which a sole political official holds the…
The Maine Legislature will convene in person on Tuesday to approve the state’s next biennial budget, likely along party lines.…