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Interview with Jerry Leeman: Today we bring you a story about a handful of fishermen rallying against a billion-dollar green industrial project, shady foreign corporations, and our own federal and state government. All are conspiring to generate a cash cow for...
By Greg Yates The criminal case People v Gosselin took place in a little red house structure known as the “Town of Highland Justice Court” located in Sullivan County, New York. This little red structure is also known as the Barryville Town Hall, where court is...
Maine Gov. Janet Mills emerged from seclusion on Monday to address corporate media reporters for the first time since she and her Chief of Staff Jeremy Kennedy put on a petulant and embarrassing display in Washington, DC. Of her now-infamous tantrum in front of President Donald Trump, Mills compared the Commander-in-Chief to French “Sun” King
Maine has become ground zero for a fight between the Trump Administration and the American left over “gender identity”— the nebulous concept that descended from the halls of academia to state houses, city councils, and school boards across the country to serve as a club that Democratic officials and progressive activists would use to batter
Four Ecuadorian illegal aliens caught a one-way ticket back to South America thanks to a busted tail light and some diligent cops from a small town on the Maine-Canada border. A Fort Fairfield officer pulled a vehicle over for a busted tail light this week, but the roadside interview revealed the driver and his passengers
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) probably thought the Tuesday night censure vote against Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) would become a cause célèbre among Maine Democrats. After Maine Gov. Janet Mills embarrassed herself—and the state—by pitching an unwise fit at the White House, Democratic leaders and strategists have desperately searched for a way to save face.
On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi fulfilled a high-profile campaign promise from President Donald Trump: releasing the secretive files pertaining to notorious pedophile and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, who was found dead in his prison cell in August 2019 under suspicious circumstances, was a close confidante of many international political elites, including President Bill
Nearly 30 percent of Maine’s government-run school districts will conceal children’s health information from parents as it relates to gender dysphoria or transgender treatments, often described by LGBTQ advocates as “gender affirming care.” That number was derived from public records obtained under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act by Parents Defending Education and reported exclusively Wednesday
The U.S. Department of Justice has warned Maine officials that it is prepared to take legal action if the state continues to require girls to compete against boys in sports, a policy the department says violates federal antidiscrimination laws. In a letter dated Feb. 25 to Gov. Janet Mills (D), U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi
The Maine Democratic Party issued a rare off-cycle fundraising text message on Monday, asking recipients to donate money in support of Gov. Janet Mills’ fight to prevent male athletes from competing against female athletes, a policy decision that risks Maine losing hundreds of millions in federal funding. NEW: Maine Democrats are planting the flag on
The former SpaceX engineer who recently announced his intention to run as an unaffiliated candidate against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins may be more aligned with far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) than SpaceX founder Elon Musk if his political contributions are any indication. According to Federal Election Commission Records, Phillip P. Rench, 37, of Waterboro
President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold more than $250 million in estimated annual spending from the federal government for Maine’s public schools if Maine officials continue to flout his executive order requiring the protection of female-only spaces and activities. “I heard men are still playing in Maine,” President Trump said at a speaking event
The amount of money taxpayers are spending on Suboxone prescriptions for individuals enrolled in MaineCare has surged to $26.2 million per year, making it the most expensive and most popular drug covered under Medicaid. According to state health spending data, Medicaid paid out $26,177,048 for Suboxone prescriptions for 7,920 individuals from July 1, 2022 to
The 34-year-old man charged with allegedly murdering his wife in Readfield on Wednesday is a former SpaceX engineer who traveled the globe extensively with his now-deceased partner, a French woman who documented the luxurious trip on social media before the pair moved back to Maine. Maine State Police were called Wednesday to the Giles Road
A Canadian national has been charged with illegally photographing sensitive U.S. military installations using a drone, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The charges stem from an ongoing multiagency investigation involving federal law enforcement and military agencies, per ICE. Xiao Guang Pan, 71, is accused of using an unmanned aircraft — a.k.a. a
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans, is floating the idea of running for governor of Maine. “I might have to start an exploratory campaign for Governor,” Mills mused in a Feb. 12 Facebook post. Although there has been some private speculation
Maine’s Attorney General has instructed employees of at least one state agency to avoid cooperating with officials from the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to a Jan. 10 email obtained by the Maine Wire. “All DHHS Departments have received a directive from the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) advising
Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey has joined a coalition of 12 state attorneys general in opposing the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s decision to grant Elon Musk and his newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to sensitive financial and personal data of American citizens. In a joint statement released Thursday, the attorneys
A Maine-based nonprofit funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers is using its social media presence to teach illegal aliens tips and tricks for evading Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine. The nonprofit, Presente! Maine, is funded almost entirely by government grants, which means taxpayers are footing the bill for the Spanish-language activists’ efforts to
The Trump Administration’s rapid moves to impose fiscal restraint on the sprawling federal bureaucracy will hit at least one governmental organization in Maine: Medical Care Development, a 501(c)3 group that pulled in $37 million in 2023. Medical Care Development, which operates as “MCD Global Health,” is a Hallowell-based nonprofit that claims to employee 195 people
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for 2024 were released on Wednesday and the results are nothing short of disastrous for Maine’s public schools. The NAEP, which measures the reading and mathematics proficiency of 4th grade and 8th grade students in American public schools, is one of the few nationwide standardized tests policy
“Jason” spoke broken English. But the energetic Chinese man communicated well enough to tell an HVAC tech from Lewiston-Auburn about working for the Chinese Communist Party as an organ harvester. Jung Yen Tsai, or Jason, was a middle-aged man from the Flushing area of New York with a noticeable scar over one eye. He told