Weakness is a contagion. Years in the future, when the historians are done analyzing our present moment, they may well…
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Ghislane Maxwell’s attorneys say that three jurors concealed their experience of sexual abuse. One described in an interview with the…
On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…
I was working on several items closer to home but events in Ukraine overtook me. Last week was one of…
One day I’m reading an internal memo commissioned by the Democratic Party to provide advice to dealing with Covid policy.…
Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed…
One of the basic functions of government is to right wrongs. When all else fails, we resort to the legal…
At a “ladies night” fundraiser in Toronto in 2013, an up-and-coming politician was asked which nation’s administration he admired most…
Antitrust is a hot topic in Washington lately. The pervasive reach of big technology companies into our personal lives and…
On February 2nd, the 2022 Walk-for-Vets kicked off in Augusta. People are walking 2.2 miles in 22 states for a 22 day-long…
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban recently announced his latest, ground-breaking innovation, and it’s one that should catch the attention of Americans.…
The New York Times Style Section’s Modern Love column on February 13 was entitled “What Is Black Love Today” and described as…
A new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) supposedly shows that wearing a face mask in public…
The dominoes are falling. In just the last month, public leaders of numerous (though not all) European countries, the nation of Israel,…
Central Maine Power provides electricity about 80% of residential customers in Maine, including my house. Factors that influence electricity consumption include the size of…
It takes incredible arrogance for lawmakers and bureaucrats to assume they know what’s best for us. But that quality—arrogance—is precisely what we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic.
We’re into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. From mask mandates to vaccine passports, government restrictions on our liberties remain…
On January 27, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer formally announced his intention to resign at the end of the current term…
Can we do anything lawful and legitimate to “protect, defend, and preserve” America as we know it? I don’t know…
Last week, Democrats brought to the Senate floor The Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Act.…
On Saturday, newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, declared an end to mask mandates in the state’s public…
On January 12, while driving, I listened to the Maine CDC’s weekly COVID-19 briefing conducted by Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and…
Last week, the US Census Bureau released its “New Vintage 2021 Population Estimates” for the United States and surrounding territories.…
The optimistic scenario goes like this. America shakes off what remains of the pandemic in the coming months without the…
In the Washington Post on December 18, three retired generals wrote that they are concerned about the military staging a coup in…
The NCAA on Thursday released its new COVID-19 guidance for winter sports, and the guidance contains some important news. As…
Yesterday, the first legislative day of the second session of the 130th Legislature, majority Democrats moved to return to remote…
Last year on January 6, I took the day off to go skiing with my son. We got up early…
It’s 2022 but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s still 2020—especially if you have children enrolled in K-12 district schooling.…
Every holiday season, Senator Rand Paul honors the fictional Seinfeld holiday “Festivus,” an annual airing of grievances, with a report…
In its December 1st editorial, “Some serious crimes still go unreported,” the Press Herald writes that recently released crime statistics…
Elon Musk made a bold claim on Twitter on Tuesday. The Tesla founder said he would “pay more taxes than…
The current Portland City Charter Commission is worse than the 2009-10 one. The last one was prompted by widespread dissatisfaction…
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a theory about why Americans are paying higher prices these days at the…
The most widely-used metrics of consumer price inflation are hitting their highest levels in decades, with the Consumer Price Index…
“Attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science,” said Anthony Fauci to widespread ridicule or approval, depending upon which…
Earlier this year, schools around the country received more than a hundred billion dollars from the federal government—American taxpayers, in…
Governments around the world took drastic measures in 2020 in hopes of slowing the spread of COVID-19, in many cases…
In late November, the Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC), a branch of the Maine Legislature’s Office of Fiscal and Program Review,…
My son recently underwent what was once a common rite of passage: his first job. He now balances the demands…
President Joe Biden once bizarrely remarked on the 2020 campaign trail, “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.” It shows.…
Last month, inflation in the US reached 6.2%, the highest year-over-year increase in more than three decades. Measured via the Bureau…
It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a…
On November 9, the Portland City Council’s Safety Committee voted to approve a sweeping ban on the sale of all…
The fate of President Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar social spending agenda, the “Build Back Better” plan, has consumed the political conversation in…
Politicians have been on a high over the last year-plus, wielding extraordinary power with the approval of voters fearful of…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 6 granted an emergency stay of the Occupational Safety…
With President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate and local government employment mandates looming, the future of countless workers is up in…
A recent analysis of the data in Maine CDC’s Health Care Worker COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard revealed that, while rates of…
This past election day, Mainers faced two contentious statewide ballot questions, but many local initiatives faced the scrutiny of voters…
Reports across Maine over the last month have detailed the several healthcare facilities forced to curtail services because of staffing shortages.…
We shouldn’t be too surprised that the ongoing exodus from public schools is leading those loyal to government-run schooling to…
Cigarette sales in the United States rose last year for the first time in two decades, according to data published by the Federal Trade…
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic will go down in American history as one of loss, economic suffering, and…
Should government officials be allowed to choose which journalists report on them? Most Americans probably would say no, because the First…
It is now less than a month before voters will go to the polls and cast their votes on ballot…
For years, my son has leased land from Christian Camps in Jackman to tap trees for maple syrup, so I’m…
Many parents pulled their children out of school last year for homeschooling and other private options, as schools remained shuttered…
As one-size-fits-all COVID vaccine mandates sweep government, academia, and corporate America, new data are emerging that undermine the public health…
A new publication from Maine Policy Institute shows which municipalities in Maine allow public K-12 education funding to follow their…
That darn First Amendment. This week, The Maine Wire learned that the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
Today, Maine Policy Institute released a new analysis on the scope of educational options available for Maine families based on…
On Monday, US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona touted new academic research to show that masks have been effective at reducing…
Since the world learned of a novel coronavirus emerging from Wuhan, China in December 2019, there has been no shortage…
The pandemic was a test of America’s public health bureaucracy. It failed.
Hours ahead of its September 27 deadline, the Apportionment Commission met for the final time and approved new district maps…
President Biden and his progressives allies are advancing a historic $4.5+ trillion spending plan that would vastly expand the government’s…
In the wake of a devastating pandemic and the resulting economic consequences, the United States has incurred a considerable amount…
On September 9th, President Joe Biden ordered the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a federal agency tasked with regulating workplace safety,…
The Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee have sent a letter to the White House asserting that “the security…
Occupational licensing has already been called out for hobbling opportunity, impeding mobility, protecting established practitioners from competition, and for raising…
In May, the Treasury Department released the Biden administration’s revenue proposals for fiscal year 2022. One aspect of this document…
Note: I am teaching Environmental Policy this fall, for perhaps the last time. I first taught it more than 30…
This fall may be the biggest moment of truth for public education since the 1970s. After seeing enrollment in government-run…
Maine’s lobstermen and women are under attack by the Biden Administration after a recent set of rule changes restricting seasonal lobster fishing in 950 square miles of…
New federal regulations created to protect the endangered right whale will close off a nearly 1,000 square mile strip in…
It’s always frustrating to read about the many ways the federal government wastes our money, from millions spent putting lizards…
A newly published medical study found that infection from COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting and stronger protection against the Delta variant…
The ACLU on Tuesday announced it is bringing a lawsuit against South Carolina over its mask policy. The Palmetto State…
On August 12, Maine Governor Janet Mills issued an emergency rule change through the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…
Jennifer Bridges knew what was coming when her director at Houston Methodist hospital called her up in June to inquire…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced a new vaccine requirement for healthcare workers on August 12, and it didn’t take long…
Over a recent 12-day period the Milwaukee Brewers had nine players test positive for COVID-19. While we don’t know the…
States are sovereign political entities. The United States Constitution lays out the powers relinquished by the several states and the people and loaned to the federal government…
Last week I received a letter from my children’s school district. “We will start the school year this fall -…
Unions dropped a whopping $67 million in hidden political spending between 2019 and 2020, according to a new study from…
As the data stand right now, deaths are not on pace with new infections across the country, and we are still in a much better position in the pandemic than just a few months ago, so let’s act like it.
It is far past time to reopen the border between the United States and Canada. Even Gov. Janet Mills agrees…
The Maine Department of Education has certain requirements students must complete before they can earn a diploma. Four years of…
Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped that “nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” If only he’d known…
Bad infrastructure and an unreliable power grid. These are among the top reasons CNBC ranked Maine in 48th place for…
Progress is progress, and that should be celebrated. These billionaires going to space is the first step in the democratization of space travel, and they are doing it far more efficiently than our government ever could.
Clearly, the vast majority of people taking advantage of IRAs are everyday Americans who have a modest amount saved for their retirement. Congress was the one to create this avenue for saving, and now they are trying to backpedal.
The unemployment rate in Maine remained stuck at 4.8% for the fifth straight month, according to recent report from the…
Whether you think Obamacare was the worst health care policy of the decade or you join Bernie Sanders in supporting…
Don’t let Gov. Janet Mills play you for a fool. In a recent press release, Mills took credit for Maine’s…
Last week’s economic reports revealed that President Biden has apparently found a DeLorean time machine, equipped with a Chinese-made flux…
In another attempt to “follow the science,” a pediatrics group has issued guidance that does the exact opposite. The American…
Gov. Janet Mills fortunately stopped a sloppy, misguided attempt to put a loaded ballot question to voters in November, but…
The big picture of this rate increase and the surrounding conversation is simple: it is the fault of federal regulators, not CMP. Outside competitors are funding ads that are aimed to hurt CMP and blame them for something completely out of their control.