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There’s a bill slithering through Augusta that reveals — unintentionally — why Gov. Janet Mills and her cabinet of Democrat…
“Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” — Luke 23:43 Recent news flashes about…
The liberal political preferences of a Portland Press Herald writer later credited with Angus King’s political fortunes have finally been…
Politics is not a game, even if many “Progressive” Democrats think so. In Maine, one-party rule has distorted reality, as…
Maine’s Constitutional Officers, including the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer, are not elected by the people. Instead, the…
If Maine’s largest newspaper company had previously tried to mask its Democrat leanings, it has now dropped all semblance of…
Maine’s Office of New Americans is a state sanctioned cabal of non-governmental organization gate keepers and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion…
In a textbook case of swallowing government spin whole, the Portland Press Herald on Tuesday published a story on the…
Could Maine become the site of a radical uptick in black market tobacco sales? If the experience of a nearby…
Struck by how quickly Augusta has changed, I look back to when I got my start in the capital. In…
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was an insightful, “to the point” writer. Without…
The Maine state government is Frigged Up Beyond All Recognition (FUBAR, as the military acronym is politely known). It’s obvious…
Rainbow bullies have hijacked Maine’s state government and our allegedly democratic institutions. After winning majorities in the Maine State Senate…
Madness comes in many forms. Maine seems to be ground zero for it. Despite historic support for mandatory minimum sentences…
The young Maine child who was given a controversial and experimental Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA injection at a public school without his…
Maine is once again in the national spotlight – and not in a good way. Just as Alabama’s Democratic Gov.…
The fentanyl crisis in North America is not just a drug problem—it is deeply intertwined with a sophisticated international money…
Maine’s leading Democratic figures have recently condemned the act of posting pictures of minors on Facebook as a serious political…
Not long ago, the Maine State Legislature’s Education Committee called on the Department of Education to explain declining performance of…
Democrat-controlled states, from Maine to California, are becoming more extreme, not less. For the most part, they have learned nothing.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills emerged from seclusion on Monday to address corporate media reporters for the first time since she…
Robinhood’s merry band of men took from the rich and gave to the poor, any extra time spent on archery.…
Maine has become ground zero for a fight between the Trump Administration and the American left over “gender identity”— the…
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) probably thought the Tuesday night censure vote against Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) would become a…
It’s only a Wednesday. One month into Trump 2.0. And yet… Elite liberal media goobers are kicking and screaming through…
Maine’s Democrat Governor is, it seems, a demagogue. Why? Demagogues make dramatic, untrue statements for personal gain, knowing what they…
If Maine Democrats and their left-wing NGO financiers can get you to believe that men can become women, they can…
After over a decade in law enforcement, this is where I find myself. I’ve watched as the communities I serve…
Strangely, Maine’s Democrats are taking a victory lap on data showing 490 Mainers died of overdoses in 2024, down 18…
Maine politicians love to brag that 67 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources. Sounds impressive, right? It’s a…
Before Vice President JD Vance took the stage at the Munich Security Conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was taking a…
Democrats Are Wrong on Title IX – Girls Matter“Facts are stubborn things,” said Ronald Reagan, quoting his early predecessor John…
A York woman has proven that even liberals sometimes have a sense of humor. Wendy Werner just became a finalist…
Maine’s education system – like that of much of the nation – is in a free-fall, maybe even has already…
Just when you thought all hope for real-time media watchdogging was lost comes a blog devoted to Portland Press Herald…
On her second day as Maine’s new public advocate – the official responsible for representing the interests of low-income ratepayers…
On Thursday morning, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is scheduled to hear from U.S. President…
A wealthy Maine philanthropist who quietly used his access and money to promote social good is being remembered by the…
By choosing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as its first target for demolition, Elon Musk’s DOGE made a…
Lift tickets are already expensive, but they just got a lot more so for a man who thought he was…
In 2014, I moved my family from the heart of Washington, D.C. to Falmouth, Maine. I grew up in Portland…
(Editor’s Note: The following opinion editorial represents the opinion and perspective of the MMCM and its leadership.) Protect Small Businesses:…
Below is the full transcript of Gov. Janet Mills’ full “State of the Budget” speech, delivered to a joint session…
Maine is at rock bottom. The state is half a billion dollars in the hole, even after receiving an unprecedented…
The Maine House of Representatives is scheduled to convene Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Augusta. Late January House session days…
I was a defender on the pages of the Ellsworth American in November 2018 of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s courageous…
“An Act to Define and Assess Equity” would require Maine state agencies, public K-12 schools, and the University of Maine…
The state of Maine is staring down a $450 million “structural deficit” for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. “Structural deficit” is…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a new plan during a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico…
As many as 40 percent of the noncitizens present in Maine, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and those…
Maine has been treated to a near non-stop barrage of demands that we acquiesce to the lucrative demands of the…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has issued an executive order to establish a commission that will study what she called…
The CEO of the nonprofit group that owns most of Maine’s newspapers received a massive pay increase for 2023, a…
On Jan. 1, working Mainers will ring in the new year with an unwelcome gift from State House Democrats: the…
While the massive MAGA wave that swept the country on November 5th didn’t exactly wash over Maine, it certainly did…
Today, the word “nuclear” often sparks fear, with talk of nuclear weapons dominating headlines. This fear is understandable but misplaced…
Despite the hysteria over rising sea levels, allegedly caused by anthropogenic global warming, a comparison of satellite imagery of some…
Black Friday is typically a day when normal people relax with family and watch as hordes of materialistic zombies storm…
Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) has for the first time released documents related to its investigations into marijuana operators…
As Maine Wire reporter Edward Tomic detailed on Friday, agents from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)…
Editor’s Note: The endorsement covered below reflects the opinion of the Maine Republican Party and not the Senate Republican or…
A contingent of Maine State Representatives, accompanied by Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols, recently visited the Northern Border Port of…
Maine Wire readers and talk radio listeners this week may have followed the imbroglio between me and the Secretary of…
It’s been a while since Chris Busby libelously claimed that I’m a paid subscriber to The Bollard newsletter in an…
In December 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the unilateral decision to remove Republican President-elect Donald Trump from…
Ranked Choice Voting was sold to Maine voters as a silver bullet that would clean up Maine politics, eliminate spoiler…
Editor’s Note: The first version of this story misinterpreted the “blank” vote totals as ballots that had been cast blank…
In the spirit of transparency, here are the emails exchanged with the Boston Globe reporter who covered the Maine Wire’s…
The Boston Globe on Monday published a front-page story featuring the Maine Wire’s investigative report which found noncitizens are registered…
Conflict of Interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or…
On Friday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey sent a second letter to the Maine Wire reiterating Maine Democratic leaders’ request…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined the Maine Policy Institute’s Pine Tree Pulse Podcast on Friday to explain how we…
The following article was prepared by the Maine Issues & Action PAC, a political advocacy committee formed by Rep. Mike…
I have always put people over politics. And I’m writing today because I know that Austin Theriault will do the…
A Democratic State Representative published an op-ed bragging about the 2023-2024, Democrat-led state spending spree just hours before the Mills…
The following article was prepared by the Maine Issues & Action PAC, a political advocacy committee formed by Rep. Mike…
The Bollard, a monthly newspaper published in Portland, has dubbed attempted murderer Leo R. Hylton, 34, Maine’s “foremost justice advocate”…
The Mills Administration has taken the unusual step of channeling $117,300 in taxpayer dollars to the Maine Trust for Local…
Editor’s Note: We’re aware of the moral hazard inherent in publishing a positive review of a documentary produced by the…
It happened again. For the second time in two months a would-be assassin took aim from an unprotected perimeter ready…
Free speech isn’t always so free on college campuses, according to a recent ranking done by College Pulse and the…
Daily Wire podcaster and best-selling children’s book author Matt Walsh has returned to theaters with a new film, Am I…
The University of Maine can couch their decision to rescind the sale of the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast…
If you woke up on Monday and found the internet filled with memes of former President Donald Trump rescuing kittens…
Republicans have revealed their last-ditch effort to ensure election integrity before former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris…
During the Biden-Harris administration’s Labor Day weekend celebrations, 23-year-old American-Israeli dual citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin was executed by Hamas terrorists after…
The Bangor Daily News, the media arm of marketing firm Bangor Publishing Company, on Tuesday published its latest report into…
The new leader of the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamala Harris, has unveiled a slate of economic proposals that would…
I come bearing both good news and bad news from the frontlines of Maine’s culture wars. First the bad news.…
It was a chart showing the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous mass illegal migration numbers that helped save Donald Trump’s life from…
In selecting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – a man with even less foreign policy experience than herself if that is…
Established in the early 1980s, Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) programs have now become a common fixture nationwide. Despite…
The latest case of fighting racism with racism comes with an added dash of climate change hysteria-induced mental illness, courtesy…
As the girls rounded the corner into the last stretch before the finish line, I couldn’t help myself: “Go, girls,…
Once upon a time, a newspaper editorial was a beacon of thought, a voice that carried weight and commanded respect.…
President Joe Biden is out of the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination—whether he knows it or not—and already his lean and…
Following his abysmal performance in the first presidential debate and an embarrassing press conference where he called Kamala Harris “Vice…
On July 13, 2024, the 45th President of the United States and the same man likely to become the 47th president came…
In addition to lying on the presidential debate stage last week that no American troops had died under his watch…