AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills (D) escalated Maine’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday with a sharp-edged campaign ad aimed directly at rival Graham Platner (D), reviving the controversy over his past online comments and signaling that the Democratic establishment is prepared to hit hard to protect its preferred candidate. The ad, released Tuesday morning, features women aligned with Mills reading Platner’s past Reddit comments back to voters. Among the remarks highlighted are posts in…

A social-media guy with a sense of humor – or more aptly sense of honor – decided the ultimate way to win a brotherly fight was with a sword.Actually, a huge sword – 15 feet long.(Makes The Maine Wire’s Sword Of Truth tiny by comparison.)YouTube maniac “Handy Geng,” who specializes in constructing crazy machines, pulled out all the stops to win a friendly fight with his brother.Geng, who lives in a rural Chinese province, manufactured…

The mother of a 1-year-old twin found dead Sunday in Milford says she is “tired of people making assumptions” about how her daughter died. “I don’t know the exact answers, as I live out of state,” Erika Dupuis posted on Facebook. Dupuis describes herself on social media as a “red neck Barbie” now “living the best life” in West Virginia. Dupuis, estranged from a Milford man, said she doesn’t know yet how her daughter Eleanora…

AUGUSTA, Maine – Three Maine voters have filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the Secretary of State’s certification of a citizen initiative that would require school sports teams and sex-separated facilities to be designated by biological sex, opening a new front in one of the state’s most contentious political and legal fights. The lawsuit, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court, on Friday, by Augusta resident Jane Gilbert, Portland resident Mark Sayre, and Lewiston resident…

The City of Lewiston condemned a building used by the Church of Safe Injection (CoSI) non-profit last Wednesday after police reportedly discovered thousands of needles on the basement floor, along with human feces. [RELATED: Brewer Police Chief Calls Out Soft-on-Crime Policies He Believes are Fueling Maine’s Drug and Crime Crisis…] According to an email from Deputy Lewiston City Administrator Brian O’Malley, posted to the Lewiston Matters Facebook group, the city condemned the CoSI building on…

A self-described independent investigative journalist admitted Tuesday to falsely accusing a pro-Trump activist of providing drugs and alcohol to a minor as part of a ruse to get the activist fired from his job. The alleged journalist — Chris J. Barry, 56, a.k.a. Crash Barry — confessed to leveling the false allegations against an activist he’s been targeting for several years with similar tactics, but he explained that he was driven to make the phone…

Not a single 8th grade student at left-wing activist and basketball legend LeBron James’ I Promise School in Ohio has passed the state’s math proficiency exam since 2019, according to a review by the local Akron Beacon Journal. “Seeing himself in the faces of Akron’s youth, he’s dedicated his time and resources to eliminating many of the barriers most inner-city students and families face. He’s rolled all of his philanthropic efforts into the I Promise…

In her first major public step toward her promise to reform the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Rochelle Walensky has chosen Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah to serve as her second-in-command. As her “principal” deputy, he’ll be focusing primarily on communication issues for the agency. It is a remarkable decision, as Shah’s background demonstrates a staggering inability to effectively manage or communicate in the field of public health. Following his election as…

Maine has been found to have the fourth highest total tax burden in the country, according to a new study published by personal finance website WalletHub. To determine residents’ tax burden, WalletHub calculated property, income, and sales and excises taxes as a share of personal income. The data used for these rankings were collected on March 4 of this year from the Tax Policy Center. Based on these calculations, Mainers bear a 10.64 percent overall…

The Daily Caller News Foundation – Nino Cambria on February 28, 2023 New Jersey environmental activist groups are fed up with the Biden administration refusing to even investigate potential links to offshore winds and recent whale deaths. Nonprofit environmental groups Save LBI, Clean Ocean Action and Protect Our Coast NJ, based in coastal towns, have spent months trying to get the administration to place a moratorium on offshore wind projects until the whale deaths are thoroughly…

Republican lawmakers are pushing for Maine to eliminate the state’s vehicle excise tax and replace it with an annual mileage-based fee. Drivers in Maine currently have to pay an annual excise tax on their vehicles, the amount of which is calculated based on a vehicle’s age and manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP). LD 1194 — sponsored by Sen. Joseph Martin (R-Oxford) and cosponsored by Rep. James E. Thorne (R-Carmel) — would phase this tax out…

An anti-sex trafficking activist claims that the trafficking of migrant girls has exploded since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to a Monday report from the Free Press. A woman who identified herself as “Lisa” and runs a non-profit organization dedicated to dismantling sex trafficking rings said that the number of girls being trafficked has drastically changed in just the past few years as open border policies have made it easier for criminals to…

If you can’t run a simple campaign you can’t run a complicated government. The adage became reality for a state senator forced out of the Republican gubernatorial primary race.Maine political-oversight officials cited “fraudulent qualifying contributions” in the campaign of James Libby.The perennial candidate was forced to drop out of the race Friday. “My campaign is no longer viable,” Libby wrote in a social-media post. Libby was depending on public funding for his gubernatorial bid but…

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The Lewiston Police Department announced on Wednesday that they arrested three individuals and seized multiple firearms in recent days as part of their ongoing effort to curb gun violence in the city. [RELATED: Lewiston Police Launch Crime Suppression Initiative to Curb Rising Violence, Shootings…] Police say that on Sunday, July 6, at about 5:20 a.m., officers responded to reports of a single gunshot near Pine Street and Webster Street. Upon arrival, they encountered a confrontation…