High energy costs are making Maine increasingly unaffordable for people of average means. Misguided state energy policies are contributing to…
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Throughout the pandemic, few things incited more discord than the mandated use of facemasks as a preventative measure to reduce…
The last couple of years have been a revelation when it comes to public health measures for battling COVID-19 and…
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…
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.
Politicians have been on a high over the last year-plus, wielding extraordinary power with the approval of voters fearful of…
With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
This fall may be the biggest moment of truth for public education since the 1970s. After seeing enrollment in government-run…
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…
COVID-19 vaccines: a personal choice or a workplace requirement? Well, to Maine’s top hospital group, the answer is a requirement.…
Over the past year, there have been numerous instances of top-down solutions being offered — by lawmakers in Washington, D.C.…
On Tuesday, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced that he will lift all business restrictions, except for mandating masks indoors (including…
On March 1, facing the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the world, the Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babis introduced…
In recent years, a number of economic studies have concluded that small to moderate increases in the minimum wage do…
Governor Janet Mills’ latest batch of doomsday rhetoric is an admission that her coronavirus narrative is falling apart. In describing…
Science, science science. It’s all about the science. Is it really, though? From the start of the pandemic to where…
Perhaps the only thing worse than being subjected to seemingly arbitrary and intrusive rules imposed to fight a pandemic is…