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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...
I have always put people over politics. And I’m writing today because I know that Austin Theriault will do the same. Unfortunately, Jared Golden has proven that he will do the opposite. He has become a Washington DC politician, and he can’t stop flip-flopping. He’s really caught a bad case of the DC disease. I’m
Sanford city officials and members of the city council were in agreement during their Tuesday meeting on the need to reform the syringe distribution program which has resulted in a “public health crisis” due to the large number of contaminated hypodermics improperly discarded throughout the city. Syringe Service Programs (SSPS) are authorized by the Maine
Following the University of Maine System’s (UMS) decision to renege on a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center in Belfast to a Christian church, the church — Calvary Chapel Belfast — has said it intends to pursue litigation against the taxpayer-funded system. Calvary Chapel Belfast Lead Pastor Greg Huston said Sunday that the church intended
In August of 2023, immigration reporter Jennie Taer published a leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo that revealed Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations — a.k.a. the Chinese mafia — had established more than 270 drug trafficking hubs throughout rural Maine. These foreign criminal organizations, the memo revealed, were making billions of dollars illegally growing cannabis
As the girls rounded the corner into the last stretch before the finish line, I couldn’t help myself: “Go, girls, go, girls!” I yelled as they sprinted and jostled for first place. Their feet pounding and red cheeks flaring, they ran hard because, on this cold fall day, the State Championship was up for grabs
By Seamus Othot A new study from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam suggests that government responses to COVID-19 and the mRNA injections marketed as vaccines may have increased the number of excess deaths worldwide since 2020. “During the pandemic, it was...
Maine Republicans are demanding an investigation into the use of bogus SSNs to obtain Maine driver's licenses A police department in southern Maine is seeing an “uptick” in the number of driver’s licenses issued by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) to individuals...
— 17.03.2023 13:32 The Maine Wire The 19th installment of the Twitter Files courtesy of independent journalist Matt Taibbi came out Friday. The new information expands what the American public knows about the shocking lengths to which the federal...
By Steve Robinson -The Maine Wire- 3/10/2023 Maine was brought to the brink of a man-made environmental disaster this week — a potential catastrophe that threatens to spill thousands of tons of human waste byproduct into Maine’s waterways. At the center of the crisis...
— 03.03.2023 09:06 The Maine Wire A large majority — 80 percent — of Maine voters wants public schools to post all curriculum content on public websites so parents can see what’s going on in their children’s classrooms, a Maine Wire / Co/Efficient public opinion...