The Maine Legislature next session will consider another bill that would be harmful to Maine’s small business community and employers…
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Despite widespread opposition throughout the state among all levels of restaurant staff, big labor continues its attempt to strip Maine service workers of their ability to earn a living by eliminating the tip credit.
In an article published Thursday on the Maine Beacon – the online opinion service of the Maine People’s Alliance –…
If you’ve followed Maine politics in the last two years, you know that contention surrounding the ballot initiative process has…
While Maine voters were out rejecting a plan for “Universal Home Care” on Election Day last week, the left-wing activist…
After a yearlong campaign of misinformation waged by the supporters of Question 1, Maine voters on Tuesday rejected Maine’s most…
More and more we are seeing direct democracy take hold in our elected representative republic. We do not see this…
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is pushing a ballot initiative – Question 1 – that seeks to establish a 3.8…
E.J. Dionne recently penned “The Grassroots Revolt Against Kavanaugh,” datelined Portland, Maine, September 13. This got my attention at once.…
Proponents of the Universal Home Care tax plan were either caught by surprise or caught red-handed when the Maine State…
In case you haven’t heard, Question 1 on the November ballot will ask Maine voters if they want to implement Universal…
The latest in a long list of misrepresentations from the Maine People’s Alliance regarding the upcoming Universal Home Care initiative…
Since the upcoming Universal Home Care (UHC) initiative sponsored by the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) achieved ballot status, the MPA,…
After accepting public comment for 30 days on the wording of the upcoming Universal Home Care ballot initiative, Secretary of…
If you were pushing one of the largest tax hikes in history on Maine citizens, would you want them to know about…
A lot of ink has been spilled detailing the catastrophic consequences of crafting tax policy through public referendum, as left-wing…
Here we go again. There’s another referendum on the ballot this fall that sounds too good to be true. Trust…
If you (and your wallet) are fed up with progressive tax-and-spend ballot initiatives, don’t expect them to end any time…
The Restaurant Workers of Maine received a major victory Tuesday when the Maine House gave initial approval to LD 673,…
Mainers seem to take voting more seriously than citizens of other states. Our 2014 voter participation topped the nation at 59.3…
The illusory truth effect explains that if someone repeats a lie over and over again, people will slowly start to…
The debate on whether or not voters should increase Maine’s minimum wage continues, but now liberals pushing for it are…
Imagine you’re a Maine reporter. And imagine you get the following press releases: Environmentalists for Open Pit Mining submit 10,000…
Do you ever wonder what the other side’s playbook looks like in Augusta? Well, recently we got our hands on…
This morning in my email, I received a MPA Campaign Vote! Candidate Questionnaire. Naturally, I looked at it and made a…
As The Maine Wire has repeatedly shown here, here and here, proponents of a minimum wage increase in Maine seem more…
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is leading an aggressive push to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. You would…
On April 15 Nathan Strout’s “Fuzzy Math in Push for Raising the Minimum Wage” questioned how deeply the Maine Peoples…
As I watch the campaign to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour unfold, one question comes to mind:…
This fall, the voters of Maine may be treated to not one but two different ballot proposals to raise the…
In this election year when all 186 seats in the Legislature are up for grabs, what’s happening right now at…
I have never been much fan of spiking the football. I like to let victories speak for themselves, which is…
Yesterday, Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald won a decisive third term in a runoff election against challenger Ben Chin. The final…
An effort to raise the minimum wage in Portland to $15/hour was defeated last week, representing an important victory for…
This November, the people of Maine will have the opportunity to vote on a campaign finance reform proposal that advocates…
Last week, a group of Mainers rallied in Augusta in support of a ballot initiative to make Maine elections “clean.”…
Mike Tipping is communication director of the Maine Peoples Alliance (MPA). As such, his primary mission is to expose Paul…
LEWISTON – A Lewiston Democrat and former Maine People’s Alliance co-chair has been caught falsely claiming that she is a…
Nate Silver, polling aficionado for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight.com, published a comprehensive ranking of American polling houses last week. According to Silver’s…
It has become cliché to note that the Portland Press Herald newspaper is owned by a very wealthy Democratic donor. In…
By John Frary — Last year presidential consigliore John Podesta snarled that Republicans “are facing a second term against a…
A Portland-based Democratic activist group announced on Thursday its endorsement of several Democratic candidates for Maine’s state legislature. “Each of these…
One week after the Maine People’s Alliance was enveloped in a media firestorm for a controversial attack it made on…
When a group of left-wing millionaires and billionaires held a secret meeting in Chicago last week, big time political players…
AUGUSTA – Some Democratic officials are seeking to distance themselves from the controversial left-wing Maine People’s Alliance after the group…
The Maine People’s Alliance, a left-wing advocacy group based in Portland, has attacked Rep. Dale Crafts (R-Lisbon Falls) for voting…
Former Maine Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, condemned the Maine Democrats’ Medicaid expansion mudslinging campaign during a Thursday morning segment…
A report from an Obama appointee puts the lie to Maine Democrats’ charge that Gov. Paul LePage and Republican lawmakers…
The Democratic activist group Maine People’s Alliance is calling Gov. Paul LePage and Republican lawmakers killers for opposing a bill…
The following editorial was published in the March 4-10 edition of the Downeast Coastal Press. It is reproduced here, with permission,…
The following op-ed originally appeared in the March 3 edition of the Downeast Coastal Press, a weekly newspaper based in…
AUGUSTA – The Augusta-based Maine Health Access Foundation announced Wednesday it has given awards worth nearly $670,000 to liberal political…
ELLSWORTH, Maine – A paid activist working on behalf of the liberal Maine People’s Alliance has been charged after she…
Mike Tipping, spy master and blogger for the progressive Maine People’s Alliance, has been touting the contents of a “secretly”…
The Maine People’s Alliance revealed Tuesday that one of its “spies” secretly recorded Gov. Paul LePage as he spoke to…
AUGUSTA – New numbers from the Maine Bureau of Insurance show that the Republican-led health care insurance reform law known…
By Rep. Heather Sirocki – Here in Maine, we value our privacy and our laid-back lifestyle. That’s why it came as…
A front group of the Portland-based Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is back in the news over a report it released…
AUGUSTA – Sparks flew on Tuesday as Gov. Paul R. LePage’s nominee to head the board of directors of the…
By S.E. Robinson Maine Wire Reporter UPDATED: The State House echoed with “solidarity claps” and chants of “Keep Maine Healthy,…
By S.E. Robinson Maine Wire reporter As Democratic lawmakers in the 126th Maine Legislature seek changes to Gov. Paul LePage’s health…
Poll results released yesterday give Senate candidate Angus King a clear lead in the race to replace Olympia Snowe. It also…