April 07, 2026
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...
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...
My guess is almost none of the 77.3 million Trump voters attended a “No King” protest. Trump won the election with broad support, winning 86% of the country’s 2676 counties, 31 states, and the popular vote. Under the rules of the “National Popular Vote Compact”, he...
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...
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has released the final question wording for the voter ID citizens initiative introduced in Augusta after over 170,000 Mainers signed a petition in support of bringing this issue to the table. Led by Dinner Table Action Executive Director Alex Titcomb and Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), the effort to get a
On June 20th, 2019, Governor Janet Mills (D) signed LD 534, a bill to make ballot initiative questions easier to understand, into law with an emergency preamble — meaning it went straight into effect. It was my first and only bill of any consequence signed into law during my three terms in the state legislature.
By Matthew Cortez As inflation cuts into Mainers’ savings, individuals and businesses are actively seeking ways to protect their hard-earned money. LD 372, sponsored by Sen. Marianne Moore (R-Washington) and Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), and supported by the Sound Money Defense League and Money Metals Exchange, would end sales tax on purchases of gold and
During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, a state official could legally shirk punishment by pretending to sick and checking into a hospital. In fact, according to Soviet law, it was illegal to fire someone who was “in hospital.” Born and raised in the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan, Maine state apparatchik Tarlan
Portland Police on Tuesday arrested a homeless man who had 18 outstanding warrants for his arrest, including for four felony counts and 19 drug-related charges. Police say that shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, an officer patrolling the area of Congress Square Park recognized an individual who had multiple warrants out for his arrest. The
The Maine District of the U.S. Marshals Service issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Kristofer G. Haken, 46, an allegedly dangerous biker gang member wanted federally as well as in Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Haken, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has a November 8, 2024, arrest warrant for two counts of elevated aggravated assault
A midcoast Maine city that went from raucous motorcycle gangs to boutique coffee houses has now once again flipped the scales. The Rockland police chief is calling for portable concrete “Jersey barriers” for public protection at outdoor community events. In particular, Chief Tim Carroll suggested that stronger barricades be erected to prevent motorists from driving
The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted unanimously last month in favor of a bill from Rep. Arthur Bell (D-Yarmouth) that would prohibit the sale of an array of new appliances that fail to comply with Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) rules. [RELATED: Trump Ends War on Water Pressure with Executive Order to ‘Make
As a conservative lawmaker, I am deeply troubled by the growing trend to label the United States a “democracy” rather than what it is: a constitutional republic. This shift in language is not merely semantic—it is a deliberate erosion of the principles enshrined in our founding documents, a distortion that threatens the individual rights our
Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is unlikely to clear the Senate Judiciary Committee and make it to the floor for a vote, Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) told reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. One Republican senator and the panel, Thom Tillis (R-NC), told the
Two House committees called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday to provide a classified briefing addressing the threat of multiple suspected Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy installations throughout Cuba, according to a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter, sent by the House Homeland Security Committee and House Select Committee
Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) has sponsored a bill creating a pilot project to “promote, incentivize and support” the use of a four-day workweek by certain Maine businesses. This program would also aim to study the “benefits and effects” of a four-day workweek on the participating employers and employees. Although there are a variety of ways
The Maine State Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee heard public testimony Tuesday on a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against someone “in housing or public accommodation” for receiving public assistance. Just as it is currently against the law to discriminate against someone for being a member of a protected class, this
Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) presented a bill on Monday on behalf of House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor), addressing vague Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) language by requiring agencies to define what they mean by “equity.” [RELATED: AI Startup Reveals DEI-Related Language Embedded in Maine Education Laws…] “At its core, LD 1593 is
A traffic stop in Medway late last month led to two arrests and the seizure of over 30 grams of suspected methamphetamine, fentanyl, cash and multiple Maine public benefit cards, according to the East Millinocket Police Department. East Millinocket Police say that on Saturday, April 26, an officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle
An unidentified man was caught on camera allegedly keying a Tesla on Sunday outside a Portland Hearts of Pine soccer game, and the vehicle’s owner is offering a $500 reward to anyone who can identify the alleged vandal. [RELATED: Alleged ‘Queer’ Tesla Vandal Charged In Connection With GOP Firebombing…] “Last night at the @hearts_sc game,
A homeless man who had eight outstanding warrants for his arrest was taken into custody on Monday after allegedly assaulting a Portland Police officer. Portland Police say that they were patrolling the area of the Shaw’s supermarket on Washington Avenue at about 12:18 p.m. on Monday when they recognized an individual who had a number
Eastern European elections rarely make headlines in the U.S., but when Vice-President JD Vance spoke to the Munich Security Conference in February he made Romania’s recent round of elections a key theme of his argument on where Europe is going off track. This past Sunday’s result suggests Vance may have been prescient. Romanian voters, it
Sen. Anne Beebe-Center wants to limit celebrations and curtail Mainers’ fun with a bill to reduce the hours allowed for commercial fireworks usage and increase penalties for violations that came up for public comment during a public hearing on Monday. [RELATED: Lewiston Democrat Wants State Workers to Get Days Off for Muslim Holidays…] “I submitted
Americans deserve a safe and secure election process, and they are losing confidence in our system. Headlines from Rasmussen polling such as, “A majority of voters suspect recent elections have been affected by cheating” and “More than 20% of voters who usedmail-in...
The owner of a plant store in Lewiston is facing aggravated drug trafficking charges after a search of the property by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) resulted in the seizure of a large amount cocaine, crack cocaine and MDMA (ecstasy) from the business. The MDEA says they had been investigating possible illegal drug trafficking
The Maine state GOP lawmaker who got officially silenced by Democrats for defending girls’ high-school sports is now fighting her own party’s attempts to clamp down on chickens, she said on Thursday. “A fellow Mainer just alerted me to LD 1655, a bill that would regulate how many chickens you can own, the space required
Imagine two nuclear-armed, global superpowers sleepwalking into a war that would, by conservative estimates, cost at least 10,000 American lives but probably many more. That is the altogether possible scenario playing out between the United States and the Peoples’ Republic of China that CATO Institute senior fellow Doug Bandow described to a group of lawyers
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Thursday signed a proclamation recognizing the Armenian genocide just months after appointed a now-resigned anti-Armenian activist to run her state migrant resettlement office. In December, Gov. Mills appointed Tarlan Ahmadov as the first director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA), a taxpayer-funded migrant resettlement office which the
Thomas College, a private post-secondary institution in Waterville, Maine, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice following a whistleblower’s report of a group of Chinese national students who entered the U.S. under student visas to enroll at the school for the 2024-2025 academic year, but have since disappeared and are believed to still
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda is moving forward with a new road map announced this week for phasing out synthetic, petroleum-based food dyes from the nation’s food supply. [RELATED: FDA Bans Cancer-Linked Food Dye Ahead Of RFK Jr’s Confirmation Hearing…] “If they
Cumberland County Sheriff’s detectives faced an unexpected, hours-long standoff with a career criminal after arriving at a Baldwin home to conduct a routine bail check. [RELATED: Lewiston Police Respond to Two Shootings in Two Days on Same Street…] Detectives arrived at the residence on Sand Pond Road in Baldwin, only to discover Jermaine Faulk in
President Donald Trump an executive order on Thursday to end “disparate-impact liability,” which essentially compels employers to consider race when hiring or risk legal penalties, and restore meritocracy to hiring in areas where the federal government has discretion. The goal of the action, his order reads, is to “guarantee equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.” [RELATED:
A new poll found that a majority of federal employees who previously voted Democrat are geared up to act against the interest of their elected boss, President Donald Trump. The data, released Thursday by the Napolitan Institute, shows that 76% of voters for former Vice President Kamala Harris working under Trump say they will “resist” his plans
Bangor Publishing Company — the company that owns both the Bangor Daily News (BDN) and a lesser-known marketing agency — has received more than $2.4 million from state agencies since Gov. Janet Mills (D) took office in 2019, according to a review of contracts filed with Maine’s procurement office. The payments to Bangor Publishing Company
A Democrat-led bill aimed at softening the criminal possession thresholds for crack cocaine was advanced by the Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee after a work session on Thursday. State Rep. Nina Milliken (D-Blue Hill) sponsored LD 1366, “An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of the Drug Laws Related to Cocaine Base,” to
President Donald Trump aims to restore “common sense” to school discipline practices with a Wednesday executive order that will end the consideration of race and “equity ideology” when determining how students will be punished. [RELATED: Two-on-One Student Assault on Lewiston School Bus Caught on Viral Video…] “The Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks
A Guilford-based business is touting a simple trick to avoid disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade negotiations: making all of their products in Maine. Puritan Medical Products, a 500-employee business based in Piscataquis County, is expanding its workforce to meet the anticipated increase in demand for American-made medical supplies, the company announced
Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program was the center of sustained attention Wednesday afternoon in Augusta as the legislature’s Labor Committee held a massive public hearing on a protracted series of bills seeking to either amend or repeal the program. The PFML program, enacted last year as part of a spending bill
After Russia escalated its assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv overnight, U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to be shifting the focus of his criticism over the stalled peace talks over the war between the two former Soviet countries from Ukraine’s President Voldymyr Zelenskyy to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. “I am not happy with the
The Maine native who made a cottage industry out of poking fun at downeasters is about to have the last laugh – on us. Now 74, humorist legend Tim Sample is preparing to step from the stage for good, with his final performance set for June. Sample, who, yes, was actually born in Maine –
Federal regulations added an estimated total cost of a whopping $2.155 trillion for Americans in 2024, according to a report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released Thursday. The large amount, which includes the calculated impact of federal regulations as well as compliance costs, results in a “hidden tax” of $16,016 per American household each
Noting an uptick of crime in Maine committed by individual out on bail for a previous offense, Sen. David Haggan (R-Penobscot) wants to roll back provisions of a 2021 law that made it easier for those being held under suspicion of committing a crime to get released on bail. LD 1536, “An Act to Amend
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) held public hearings for four Democrat-led bills on Tuesday aimed at increasing race-based education requirements for Maine schools and increasing costs for Maine taxpayers. [RELATED: Harpswell Rep Quietly Withdraws Bill That Would Have Made LGBTQ Education Mandatory for Maine Schools…] While Maine faces a federal
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a landmark case that could spell the end of California’s Clean Air Act waiver, which created what has been widely referred to as a de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate in more than a dozen states. While Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) withdrew a bill earlier this month that would have put taxpayer-funded tampons in public school boys’ bathrooms, marking a victory for the Mainers who agree that men cannot menstruate. [RELATED: Maine Democrats Push Bill to Require Tampons in Boys’ Bathrooms Across the State’s Public Schools…] Rep. Cloutier’s bill, LD 155, died
The Maine legislature will meet Thursday for the third session day in a row. Thursday’s calendar is light in both chambers; however, on the agenda there are several noteworthy bills to keep an eye on as well as a resolution showing how bans on militia training and weapon seizures without due process are tyrannical. Representative
Lewiston Police are investigating a pair of shooting incidents that occurred on the same street over two separate days this week. Police say that shortly after 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, officers responded to the area of 79 Birch St. in Lewiston to a report of gunshots. While they located no suspects or evidence
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) is undeterred by the “No Kings” signs that have become prominent at recurring ‘Hands Off’ rallies around the state and has launched a speaking program to raise the alarm about America’s democracy being in peril. Never one to let a low-hanging news hook pass by, Sen. King pegged an op-ed
Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, signed by nearly every Republican in the Maine state legislature, calling for a review of they called the Maine’s burdensome, costly and unfair “clean energy” policies. [RELATED: Mainers Overflow Hearing to Speak Out on Both Sides of Proposed Net Energy Billing
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Amber Lavigne was cleaning her daughter’s bedroom when she discovered a chest binder, a device used to facilitate female-to-male gender transitions. She later discovered the device was given to her daughter by a school social worker, after just an hour long meeting. While President Trump fights to protect women in Maine, Amber’s story is worth