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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...
An estimated 627 non-citizen MaineCare recipients are set to lose their taxpayer-funded healthcare on October 1 following changes made by President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill budget, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced on Wednesday. [RELATED: Just One Maine Prosecution for $70 Theft Part of New Nationwide Crackdown on Medicaid
A new Preble Street report identified more than 100 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in a single section of Portland, raising questions about whether government counts are capturing the full scope of the city’s continuing homelessness crisis. Preble Street Health Services and the Preble Street Outreach Collaborative identified 104 people living outside during an informal count
Communities across Maine have opened cooling centers to provide relief from dangerously high temperatures and humidity expected to continue through the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings and heat advisories for large portions of the state. Heat index values could reach between 105 and 110 degrees in
The City of Portland will activate cooling centers this week as dangerous heat is expected to settle over the city from Wednesday through Friday. The downtown Portland Public Library, located at 5 Monument Square, will serve as the city’s cooling center on Wednesday, July 1, and Thursday, July 2, during its normal operating hours of
Southern Maine Community College (SMCC) was inaccurately telling students in its health science program that they needed to receive a COVID vaccine or lose their place in the program, despite the state ending the COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 2023. The policy remained in place until Thursday, when the parent of a student,
In one of the largest malpractice cases ever in Maine, a jury has sided with a victim of alleged hospital negligence. Robert Giordano sued Northern Light and A.R. Gould Hospital in Presque Isle claiming doctors failed to identify bone calcification in his spinal canal and failed to follow emergency protocols, rapidly leading to his paralysis.
For the first time this year, a person in Maine has tested positive for the rare tick-borne illness known as Powassan virus. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention says the person tested positive in Penobscot County, according to WGME-TV. It is the first reported case of the virus in Maine this year. “We
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on Monday received the endorsement of Planned Parenthood and used the occasion to sharpen his criticism of Sen. Susan Collins, Maine’s Republican incumbent, while making an unusual personal disclosure about his own experience using the organization’s health services. The most notable moment of the event came when Platner volunteered
Sen. Susan Collins (R) led a small group of lawmakers in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz to make the adjustments necessary to support the successful implementation of the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). According to the senators, current guidance from the agency may “unintentionally disadvantage” many rural hospitals
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) celebrated Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) strong support for her bipartisan push for affordable insulin after the socialist endorsed Graham Platner’s campaign against her. [RELATED: Collins, King Announce More Than $16 Million for Economic Development Projects Across Maine…] “I find it extremely interesting that Ranking Member Sanders has proposed nine amendments to
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced that it will be completely phasing out the issuance of paper checks by the end of this year. Last September, all four members of Maine’s congressional delegation joined together in urging the SSA to delay the implementation of this policy, citing concerns over the impact it would have
AUGUSTA, Maine – Tickborne illnesses are rising sharply across Maine and much of the United States, with state health officials reporting record numbers of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis cases as residents face increasing exposure close to home. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,257 cases of Lyme disease in 2025, up
If we continue as we have been, the prospect of our children living shorter, less healthy lives than we do is a real possibility.
The U.S. House scored a victory for parental rights on Wednesday, passing a bill to prevent schools from hiding gender transitions from parents despite opposition from Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Jared Golden (D-Maine). [RELATED: OCP Policy Director and Radical Leftist Running for Augusta School Board Previously Raised Funds for Abortion and “Gender Affirming Care”…]
A Maine church has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over alleged interference with members’ use of a hallucinogenic substance during its services. Pachamama Sanctuary argues in its lawsuit against the federal government that it uses ayahuasca tea during certain ceremonies. A South American ceremonial tea, ayahuasca contains DMT, a Schedule I controlled substance
The plane that transported an American who tested positive for Ebola made a stop in Maine at Bangor International airport. The Phoenix Air jet stopped in Bangor on Wednesday afternoon for fuel, according to WABI-TV via Penobscot County Area Scanner Page. The aircraft’s final destination was Georgia. Initially leaving from a Greek island, the plane
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and Rep. Michele Meyer (D-Maine) announced a $1 million investment of opioid settlement funds on Wednesday for a social services hub in Kittery. [RELATED: Maine AG’s Office Quietly Spends Millions on Opioid Settlement Funds with Limited Disclosure…] The funding will go to Mainspring: The Seacoast Social Services Collective, a project
When Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted Major H. Michael Gary’s story on X, it wasn’t just a show of support. It was the public validation of a fight that had stretched across four long years—a fight against unlawful mandates, institutional retaliation, and...
Major Michael Gary, a highly trained and respected Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) officer, has endured a relentless campaign aimed at stripping him of his security clearance, career, and reputation in the Maine ArmyNational Guard (MEARNG). The...
Army Reserve Major and former Maine National Guardsman Michael Gary was forced out of his full time AGR position in the Guard and faced multiple investigations in what he believes was retaliation for his refusal to take the MRNA COVID vaccine when it was mandated for...
Transgender activist and medical doctor Johanna Olson-Kennedy intentionally delayed and continues to withhold the publication of a $9.7 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers do not improve the mental health of children with gender dysphoria. [RELATED: UK Bans Puberty Blockers for Minors as Maine Pushes Sanctuary Status for “Gender-Affirming” Treatments…] Olson-Kennedy spoke to the
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV), a case which the agency says is the first locally acquired infection in Maine since 2020. WNV, like the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEE) and Jamestown Canyon virus (JCV), are
This is a movement that would turn our children against themselves because its advocates know there is no greater harm—no quicker way to bring America to its knees—than by driving our children to do themselves irreversible damage.
All indications are that those in power have no intention of allowing Americans to live normally—which for Americans means to live freely—again. And sadly, just as in Galileo’s time, the root of our problem lies in “the experts” and vested academic interests.
We should respond to the COVID virus rationally: protect the vulnerable, treat the people who get infected compassionately, develop a vaccine. And while doing these things we should bring back the civilization that we had so that the cure does not end up being worse than the disease.
The coronavirus lockdowns demonstrated our leaders’ ignorance of economic interdependence. After the riots, that ignorance has been shown to run far deeper. It is an ignorance about government’s most fundamental obligation: to safeguard life, liberty, and property. It is an ignorance about human nature and human striving.
78 million people are going to stop working, stop paying taxes, stop paying into retirement programs, and start drawing benefits.
In the 1980s an extraordinary leader attempted to take on big government and to roll back its power over the lives of its citizens.
Health care reform is one of the most complex public policy issues to face this nation since the creation of the social welfare programs of the 1960s.
