If you’ve followed Maine politics in the last two years, you know that contention surrounding the ballot initiative process has…
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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 Heritage Policy Center on Tuesday, Oct. 23 released a new study on the impacts of Question 1, the…
Question 1 promises a false sense of security that is destined to fail Maine’s elderly, disabled and those who care…
Over $400,000 of Soros money helped put the Universal Home Care initiative on Maine’s ballot in November. Question 1 proposes three new…
There are so many bad policies rolled into Question 1 on November’s ballot that it’s hard to know where to…
Question 1 on the ballot this November will read as follows: “Do you want to create the Universal Home Care Program to…
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is pushing a ballot initiative – Question 1 – that seeks to establish a 3.8…
This commentary was originally published in the Bangor Daily News. The state economist recently issued a report on the likely impact that…
Proponents of the Universal Home Care tax plan were either caught by surprise or caught red-handed when the Maine State…
1,700 fewer Maine residents. 1,800 fewer workers in our labor force. 3,800 fewer jobs. A $500 million reduction in personal…
In case you haven’t heard, Question 1 on the November ballot will ask Maine voters if they want to implement Universal…
When Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap was accepting public comment on the ballot language for the upcoming “Universal Home…
Ballot Question 1 is another benign-sounding, feel-good referendum. In reality, it’s one more in a long line of over-simplified referendums…
I have a hunch. This late summer or fall, after Labor Day but before Election Day, progressives in Maine will…
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…
Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) chief executive officer Matthew Gagnon has sent a letter to Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap…
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…