There’s an old saying in Washington that goes “where you stand is where you sit,” which is to say too much of the federal government’s time and our tax dollars are wasted every day on bureaucratic infighting. If his planned streamlining of America’s oldest federal department goes forward, Secretary of State Marco Rubio might change

In Maine, where the transgender issue is playing out in dramatic form before the public eye, Portland public schools superintendent Ryan Scallon claimed that preventing transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports is the modern equivalent of the crusades for women’s suffrage and racial equality. This is an outrageous misappropriation of our history and an

Growing up in Maine, we know trust matters more than anything. We also tend to avoid hysteria – or always did. So, here is a dose of “calm” relating to the still active debate about the Trump White House and “Signal” app.First, “Signal” is an end-to-end encrypted app, almost impossible to break, used by many

The liberal political preferences of a Portland Press Herald writer later credited with Angus King’s political fortunes have finally been acknowledged. But Democrat Dennis Bailey, according to veteran Maine political analyst Al Diamon, has now been relegated to writing a Portuguese travel guide. Bailey is just the latest legacy reporter to be exposed – a

Politics is not a game, even if many “Progressive” Democrats think so. In Maine, one-party rule has distorted reality, as out-of-touch elites no longer care about the hardships they impose on average people. Mainers, like America in 2024, are tired of manipulation, misrepresentation, and untruth.Maine’s “Progressive” Democrat today represents the last stand of the lunatic

Maine’s Constitutional Officers, including the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer, are not elected by the people. Instead, the state has Soviet-style commissars installed by the elite of the political party in power. This is due to a flaw in Maine’s constitution that was written before the rise of Marxist regimes and their deadly

In a textbook case of swallowing government spin whole, the Portland Press Herald on Tuesday published a story on the resignation of Tarlan Ahmadov, the embattled director of Maine’s Office of New Americans (ONA), without so much as a whiff of skepticism. Ahmadov, who stepped down on Tuesday, cited “personal health reasons” in his resignation

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was an insightful, “to the point” writer. Without her counsel, our second president would have stumbled, lost confidence and his way. Top of her list was faith, family – and education. We must hear her wisdom again, now.Wrote Abagail: “Learning is not obtained

Rainbow bullies have hijacked Maine’s state government and our allegedly democratic institutions. After winning majorities in the Maine State Senate and House by just a few hundred votes, the far-left Democrats are governing like they’ve got some kind of mandate. They don’t. Yet their thuggish abuses of power now pose serious threats to Maine’s democratic

Democrat-controlled states, from Maine to California, are becoming more extreme, not less. For the most part, they have learned nothing. From Title IX to higher taxes, they hurt their people. This just has to stop. Title IX provides an excellent example of Democratic extremism. On June 23, 1972, President Nixon signed Title IX, a civil

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

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.

If Maine Democrats and their left-wing NGO financiers can get you to believe that men can become women, they can get you to believe anything. They can get you to believe that minors can consent to life-altering surgeries when they can’t even legally consent to getting a tattoo. They can get you to believe that

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

Strangely, Maine’s Democrats are taking a victory lap on data showing 490 Mainers died of overdoses in 2024, down 18 percent from 2023, a reduction largely credited to the availability of the overdose reversal drug, Naloxone. Calling this progress is a misfire. Maine is actually in crisis. Augusta’s establishment seems to misunderstand what is happening.

On Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hear from U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Linda MacMahon. Given the Trump administration’s stated goal of shutting down the U.S. Department of Education, this hearing offers a logical forum on how best to do that in

(Editor’s Note: The following opinion editorial represents the opinion and perspective of the MMCM and its leadership.) Protect Small Businesses: Maine’s Cannabis Industry Needs Fair Policies Gov. Janet Mills’ proposal to impose mandatory testing and tracking on the medical cannabis market is a misguided approach that will harm small businesses while failing to address real

Maine is at rock bottom. The state is half a billion dollars in the hole, even after receiving an unprecedented injection of some $15 billion in invented-from-thin-air pandemic funds. The roads are like a Zydeco vest frottoir, the schools are so terrible that Mills will stage a cover-up of the latest NEPA results tomorrow, and

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

“An Act to Define and Assess Equity” would require Maine state agencies, public K-12 schools, and the University of Maine System to define and assess “equity” if they are promoting it in any policy area. It turns out that there is no definition of equity despite widespread equity advocacy. The hearings should be quite the

The state of Maine is staring down a $450 million “structural deficit” for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. “Structural deficit” is the term government employees use when the state’s economists are predicting money allocated by lawmakers or spent by Gov. Janet Mills will be nearly half-a-billion short of the revenue collected in taxes. It’s kind of

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

On Jan. 1, working Mainers will ring in the new year with an unwelcome gift from State House Democrats: the largest blue-collar tax increase in decades. Unless lawmakers can summon the common sense to kill off this ruinous program in its infancy, most Maine workers and businesses will be subjected to the new one percent

While the massive MAGA wave that swept the country on November 5th didn’t exactly wash over Maine, it certainly did have a discernible impact here. The Trump Bump was churning just below the surface in state legislative races, where Democrats suffered a net loss of 5 seats in the House and 2 in the Senate.

Today, the word “nuclear” often sparks fear, with talk of nuclear weapons dominating headlines. This fear is understandable but misplaced when it comes to nuclear energy—an entirely different application with enormous potential to benefit Maine. Unfortunately, misinformation has become a major barrier to this clean, reliable, and innovative energy source. Maine is missing out on

Despite the hysteria over rising sea levels, allegedly caused by anthropogenic global warming, a comparison of satellite imagery of some of Maine’s most iconic coastal communities shows virtually no change in the coastline. The lack of sea level rise, however, hasn’t stopped the flood of apocalyptic predictions. The most recent comes from Newsweek this Sunday

Black Friday is typically a day when normal people relax with family and watch as hordes of materialistic zombies storm big-box stores to trample one another and get into fistfights over the latest flat-screen television. But this year is special. This year is special because the Kirk Minihane Show has offered perhaps the single greatest

It’s been a while since Chris Busby libelously claimed that I’m a paid subscriber to The Bollard newsletter in an amusing piece that shows he may still have some fight left in him after all. But I did not want his Oct. 15 missive and subsequent hit pieces to pass without remarking. Sadly — and

Conflict of Interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity.” OR “when an entity or individual becomes unreliable because of a clash between personal (or self-serving) interests and professional duties or responsibilities.” See also The University of Maine The

The following article was prepared by the Maine Issues & Action PAC, a political advocacy committee formed by Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips). The opinions expressed below are those of the author. “We don’t have an immigration problem. We have a slave trade problem.” Texas Sheriff Roy Boyd. A few weeks ago, I traveled to the

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

The Bollard, a monthly newspaper published in Portland, has dubbed attempted murderer Leo R. Hylton, 34, Maine’s “foremost justice advocate” in an October issue alongside the question, “Who’s Afraid of Leo Hylton?” Hylton (MDOC#70199) is currently housed in Maine State Prison, where he’s slated to remain until July 27, 2050, for robbery, burglary, and attempted

The Mills Administration has taken the unusual step of channeling $117,300 in taxpayer dollars to the Maine Trust for Local News, the operator of Maine’s most sympathetic far-left content publishers. These payments were not delivered in an envelope stuffed with cash at a smoky bar but via a no-bid contract, as disclosed on the state’s

Editor’s Note: We’re aware of the moral hazard inherent in publishing a positive review of a documentary produced by the Maine Wire at TheMaineWire.com. To address any concerns, we’ve decided to double Mr. Patten’s usual fee. It doesn’t take a groundbreaking documentary to tell you we live in crazy times, but The Maine Wire’s Triad

It happened again. For the second time in two months a would-be assassin took aim from an unprotected perimeter ready to open fire on former president, and current Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. This time Trump was on a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida where Secret Service agents spotted and opened fire against

If you woke up on Monday and found the internet filled with memes of former President Donald Trump rescuing kittens or ducks, or found AI images of Vice President Kamala Harris cooking cats, we might be able to offer an explanation. The story begins with a Biden-Harris refugee resettlement program that brought hundreds of thousands

The Bangor Daily News, the media arm of marketing firm Bangor Publishing Company, on Tuesday published its latest report into the boogeyman of anti-government extremism in Maine. From Christopher Polhaus, the Biden-backing pro-Ukraine war Wyoming man whose business partner raised $100,000 for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, to Tom Kawczynski, a former town manager

The new leader of the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris, has unveiled a slate of economic proposals that would do nothing but harm the American economy and make Americans poorer. In case you haven’t been following along, Harris has endorsed price-controls for grocery stores, subsidizing housing demand with $25,000 credits to new home-buyers, raising

I come bearing both good news and bad news from the frontlines of Maine’s culture wars. First the bad news. Gender ideologues across the state are celebrating their triumph in mid-coast Maine on August 1st, when the Regional School Unit (RSU) 40 school board voted to reinstate a “Transgender and Gender Expansive Student” policy that

In selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – a man with even less foreign policy experience than herself if that is indeed imaginable – presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to be saying that foreign policy doesn’t really matter in this election. But if you look carefully for what’s not being said, the truth

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

Once upon a time, a newspaper editorial was a beacon of thought, a voice that carried weight and commanded respect. It was an instrument of intellect, raising unconventional ideas and stirring action towards noble goals. Nowadays, the Bangor Daily News’ editorials bear an uncanny resemblance to the impassioned rants you might find on your boomer

President Joe Biden is out of the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination—whether he knows it or not—and already his lean and hungry wolf of a vice president, Kamala D. Harris, is projecting a sense of inevitability around her ascent to the top of the ticket. Notably, former President Barack Obama, commonly viewed as the real marionettist

Following his abysmal performance in the first presidential debate and an embarrassing press conference where he called Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” and Ukranian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy “President Putin,” Joe Biden is officially out of the presidential race. It was curious seeing the flurry of calls from top Democratic Party brass for Biden to step aside come all at