Maine’s Transportation Committee will hold a public hearing Tuesday on several bills that aim to amend the state’s vehicle inspection requirements. Lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have introduced legislation that would change Maine’s annual vehicle inspection requirements as they are known today. While some proposals would make this program more restrictive, others would make it less intrusive or do away with it entirely. The public hearing is set to begin at 1pm…

After fielding complaints from the community for several months about suspected drug trafficking out of a home in Auburn, police raided the property last week, resulting in the seizure of an estimated $90,000 worth of illegal drugs — including over four pounds of crystal methamphetamine. Auburn Police say that they had been investigating the home on Country Club Drive in Auburn for several months and had connected a resident of the home, 41-year-old Luke Merriam,…

The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted against two Republican-led bills that would prevent geo-engineering in the name of combating climate change during a work session on Wednesday. [RELATED: Public Advocate Pressed to Hold Solar Companies to Account for High Costs and Confusion…] Both bills would have prevented a slew of actual or theoretical methods of modifying the weather or other large-scale efforts to alter the Earth’s natural systems, such as cloud…

The New York Times, the official media organ for the Democratic National Committee and diehard Democratic voters, is sounding the alarm over internal chaos at ActBlue, the political fundraising juggernaut that has helped left-wing candidates and committees raise billions of dollars since its founding in 2004. According to the bombshell report released Wednesday, the powerhouse fundraising platform, which is technically organized as a nonprofit political action committee, is facing internal chaos, with at least seven…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)’s Office of Civil Rights has found Maine to be in violation of Title IX protections of girls in school sports, according to a letter it sent to Maine Governor Janet Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey. Late last month, the federal office announced it was investigating the Maine Department of Education’s refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender athletes from playing on…

Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) Chief of Staff, Jeremy Kennedy, swore at White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Alex Meyers on Saturday, according to a Daily Wire report, and stormed off after Meyers called on Maine to keep men out of women’s sports. [RELATED: Gov. Mills Vows to Resist Federal Ban on Boys in Girls Sports After Trump Singled out Maine and Threatened to Pull Funding…] “When Meyer told them that Maine needs to follow the…

The annual tradition of visiting an auto mechanic to get an inspection sticker could come to an end if a group of Republican lawmakers succeed in repealing Maine’s auto inspection requirement. Under a bill introduced by Rep. Ann Fredericks (R-Sanford), the mandatory safety inspection requirement would be repealed for the majority of cars that are driven by Mainers on a daily basis. “Other states have already abolished this antiquated requirement that is an inconvenience,” Fredericks…

Town officials in Gray revealed during a Wednesday meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals that an applicant to the board received a realistic looking AI-generated phishing email that was requesting thousands of dollars be wired to an address. The single item on the meeting’s agenda was a request from two property owners to slightly reduce their property’s required front setback in order build an addition to a structure on their property. After the primary…

Republican lawmakers urged the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday to take “decisive action” against a Chinese military company that has “expansive operations at major U.S. ports,” according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The House Committee on Homeland Security and House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Acting Commandant, Admiral Kevin E. Lunday requesting information and a classified briefing related to COSCO Shipping, a Chinese state-owned enterprise…

Ann Cook, a Maine public school teacher who in 2022 was recorded going on a bizarre racially-charged political rant in front of a middle school student, has now allegedly been caught on video absconding with a Trump campaign sign from a Yarmouth intersection, according to video obtained by the Maine Wire. [RELATED: Secret audio reveals Maine teacher ranting about politics, mocking Trump-supporting parents…] The video footage of the incident, captured on a game camera placed…

The Fairfax County, Virginia, Police Department released disturbing footage from September of an officer fatally shooting a former Georgetown University women’s basketball player in self-defense after she attacked him with a knife. https://twitter.com/githii/status/1846198988061512027 The graphic footage shows Officer Peter Liu arriving at the door of Sydney Wilson, 33, after a mental health expert asked police to conduct a welfare check on Sunrise Valley Drive in Reston, Virginia. The mental health professional warned police that Wilson…

Only 5.49 of university and college professors working in Maine are registered Republicans, according to an analysis of professorial political affiliations conducted by the Maine Wire. The analysis, which included professors at Maine’s UMaine system campuses as well as Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, Husson, St. Joseph’s College, and Thomas College, found that the majority of professors were registered Democrats, while large percentages were either not registered to vote or unaffiliated with any political party. The Maine…

The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday announced that they had executed two search warrants, resulting in the seizure of a large amount of illegal drugs and six arrests. [RELATED: Fire Destroys Lewiston Drug Den, Site of Multiple Police Raids…] Lewiston Police say the pair of search warrants are related to ongoing investigations alongside the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). The first search…

A new study conducted by the University of Texas Medical Branch has revealed that sex-change surgeries increase the risk of suicide by more than 12 times. “Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not,” said the study. The study is among the first — and most exhaustive — to provide actual analysis of the claim frequently advanced by advocates for sex-change surgeries that the procedures prevent…

Lawmakers in Augusta have approved a bill providing property tax relief to a broader group of Maine veterans and their families, while also extending a greater measure of relief to veterans with qualifying disabilities. The version of the bill supported by legislators in the House and Senate looks markedly different, however, from the original draft introduced last year by Rep. Benjamin C. Hymes (R-Waldo). At first, this bill — LD 1737 — was designed to…