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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...
You can hold off for just so long, but as Peter with his finger in the dike learned, the dam, responding to the laws of physics, will slowly erode and eventually give way. Similarly, Ayn Rand often liked to say, “Reality is the final arbiter.” Recent events suggest we may be witnessing this manifestation among
New Hampshire’s proposed ban on offshore wind development proves the state’s loyalty to its coastal communities and the working men and women of the New England fisheries. New Hampshire’s state Senate will soon take up HB 682, a measure that reorganizes or closes state offices backing the offshore wind buildout in the Gulf of Maine
There’s a bill slithering through Augusta that reveals — unintentionally — why Gov. Janet Mills and her cabinet of Democrat Party loyalists have allowed Maine’s procurement process to become an unsupervised, non-competitive, non-transparent free-for-all. In case you’ve missed it, State Auditor Matt Dunlap has revealed in his 2024 audit report that Maine’s procurement process—that is
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services’ (Maine DHHS) Office of Aging and Disability Services (OADS) issued a no-bid contract worth nearly $800,000 in taxpayer money to house a non-citizen at an Oakland residential care facility, state contract documents obtained by the Maine Wire reveal. The shocking cost of the taxpayer-funded medical care the
Could Maine become the site of a radical uptick in black market tobacco sales? If the experience of a nearby state that got regulation wrong is any example, it certainly could. In addition to that, increased Maine taxes on tobacco products will likely drive sales across state lines, and hurt local businesses. The Massachusetts Multi-Agency
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
The Maine Wire’s Steve Robinson and Edward Tomic contributed to this story. Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) created the controversial “Office of New Americans” (ONA) last year as part of the governor’s plan to bring 75,000 new workers to Maine over a five-year period. On Dec. 18, Gov. Mills tapped
Former Bangor Mayor, Democrat state senator and state representative Sean Faircloth won Maine House District 24 on Tuesday, holding the seat vacated by Maine State Treasurer Joe Perry for his party against a challenge by Republican Carolyn Fish with over 70 percent, or 1,431 votes to Fish’s 566. The district which covers parts of Bangor
The Maine House of Representatives voted 75 to 70 on Tuesday to censure Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) for posting a viral image on social media that showed a male athlete taking first place in a girls’ track and field contest. The image set off an internet firestorm, with tens of thousands of social media users
After over a decade in law enforcement, this is where I find myself. I’ve watched as the communities I serve have deteriorated, ravaged by the insatiable demand for narcotics. I’ve arrested friends, schoolmates, their parents, and relatives. I’ve placed people I know in body bags, zipped them up, and carried them to the back of
Maine lawmakers are slated to consider creating protections for workers that will limit how American businesses can use emerging monitoring and surveillance systems, which some corporations have adopted to spy on remote workers and ensure they are not slacking off. The bill, introduced by Rep. Amy Roeder (D-Bangor), would require employers to obtain informed consent
Below is the full transcript of Gov. Janet Mills’ full “State of the Budget” speech, delivered to a joint session of the State Legislature on Jan. 28.
A minor earthquake struck Maine late Monday morning, rattling residents across parts of New England but causing no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the 4.1-magnitude quake at 10:22 a.m. local time. The epicenter was located at a depth of 20 kilometers (12 miles), approximately 19 kilometers (12 miles) east
State House staff have published the final list of legislative proposals that state lawmakers will consider during the 132nd Legislature, a whopping 4,256 bills — most of which are certain to die a quick death. The pile of nascent legislative bills and resolves includes 394 bills related to taxes and 115 bills related to energy
I was a defender on the pages of the Ellsworth American in November 2018 of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s courageous and principled deciding vote to confirm now Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In 2020, Sen. Collins voted to confirm all of President Joe Biden’s cabinet choices, despite nearly all being unqualified, freaks, a disgrace
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has issued an executive order to establish a commission that will study what she called “Artificial Intelligence” — a catchall phrase that has come to describe large language models like ChatGPT. As a demonstrative project, we asked Chat GPT to make some predictions about Gov. Mills new commission, including whom
The House Republican Office distributed the following press release on Friday afternoon. The weekly radio address can be viewed here: Mid-December and the weather is just perfect for taking a day to go walk on my family hunting property. I’m State Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham and this is this week’s Republican Radio Address. So the
President-elect Donald Trump continues to send shockwaves through Washington, D.C., and American politics as his proposed cabinet picks bring into clearer perspective what the second Trump administration will look like. On Thursday, Trump caused an eruption of discontent among the public health bureaucracy with the announcement that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined the Maine Policy Institute’s Pine Tree Pulse Podcast on Friday to explain how we can prove that non-citizens, including legal aliens and paroled illegal aliens, are registered to vote in Maine elections–and some have had votes cast in their names. In the podcast, Robinson answers many of the questions
Maine’s Attorney General and Secretary of State sent a letter to the Mane Wire on Friday asking the investigative news outlet to handover records showing non-citizens are registered to vote and have had votes cast in their names since at least 2016. In the letter, Attorney General Aaron Frey and Secretary of State Shenna Bellows