This November, Portland residents will vote on five citizens’ initiatives, four of which were sponsored by the Maine chapter of the…
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A joint ballot initiative effort between the Maine People’s Alliance and the Maine Women’s Lobby seeks to put the question…
Residents of Southport voted on June 28 to overturn approval for a fiber optic network owned by the town. The…
Early returns on November 2 proved to be indicative of the results for Maine’s three ballot questions, which were all…
School officials and building committees involved in Portland’s elementary school renovations are seeking clarification on the energy requirements of the…
On Tuesday, February 4, the Maine Republican Party announced they are launching a People’s Veto campaign to repeal LD 1083.…
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap confirmed Thursday his office had certified the petitions submitted by Mainers for Health and…
The Maine House on Tuesday voted to approve a bill that would simplify the wording of ballot questions to make…
Lawmakers are considering a flurry of ballot initiative reforms this session, from requiring signatures to be collected in both congressional…
Lawmakers on Maine’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee today will consider a bill that would amend the Maine Constitution to…
Lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee Monday held a public hearing on LDs 255 and 374, two bills…
This week, lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on LD 252, sponsored by…
Citizens Initiatives should be reserved for Maine citizens.
Here we go again. There’s another referendum on the ballot this fall that sounds too good to be true. Trust…
Perhaps the most inaccurate narrative being pushed by lobbyists and special-interest groups in Augusta is that the Maine Legislature is…
Maine needs you to make important decisions that will affect our future. Please vote on November 7. There are several…
We have a lot of work to do in the upcoming Legislative session. If we are going to make progress,…
Mainers weren’t supposed to defeat Michael Bloomberg’s agenda on the ballot yesterday. His propaganda was too powerful, his budget was…
When Press Secretary Adrienne Bennett requested the opinion piece be considered for publication, Portland Press Herald Editor Greg Kesich said,…
As this everlasting election cycle winds down, none too soon, I thought I would focus on a single issue in…
In November of 2014, Governor Paul LePage (R) won re-election to his post as the Governor of the state of…
The Maine Education Association (MEA) has used out of state funds to place job-crushing Question 2 on the November ballot…
Hi, I’m Ernie Copley. I’m a college business teacher and a financial planner in Maine. Recently, I read a position…
Referendum Question 3 is a heavily out-of-state funded attack on the rights of law-abiding citizens which has received stark opposition…
If you’re from the town of Sebago, Lincolnville, Greenwood, Bremen, Newry, Machiasport, or Jonesport, Question 2 should worry you immensely.…
On November 8th, Maine citizens will go to the polls to cast their vote for several apocryphal referendum questions. From…
Question 3 on this November’s ballot has been touted by gun control advocates as a way to keep firearms out…
Question 3 on the November ballot calls for Universal Background Checks on all private sales and transfer on firearms. But…
If I told you an interest group sent a legislator a draft bill and told them to submit it as-is,…
Question 3 isn’t just an attack by anti-gun forces on our individual right to keep and bear arms; it’s an…
Last week I spoke at a forum during Constitution Week at Husson University. Liberals are constantly attacking our Constitution, but…
As if it comes as any surprise, there is something remarkably hypocritical about a stance many liberals running for re-election…
Question 4 is a bad idea for many reasons. I find it highly unlikely that the individuals who gathered signatures…
To hear the supporters of Question 3 — Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to impose nanny-state universal background checks — tell it,…
The illusory truth effect explains that if someone repeats a lie over and over again, people will slowly start to…
This week, the Maine School Management Association (MSMA) – a nonprofit comprised of the Maine School Boards Association and the…
Don’t look now – but Maine’s economy is powering ahead and proving that November’s minimum wage ballot initiative is completely…
People are quickly finding that, like many political issues, the devil is in the details, and Question 3 is no…
Question 5 on the November ballot is asking Mainers to replace traditional elections with a voting scheme that would give…
A few weeks ago, Greg Dougal and Adam Lee each presented their viewpoints on Question 4, the minimum wage referendum,…
This year, Maine voters will face an array of ballot measures, replete with fine print that no one fully understands.…
CONTROL: To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over others. To regulate. Question 3 on the 2016 ballot asks, “Do you…
Initiative will do nothing to keep guns away from criminals The National Rifle Association (NRA) yesterday took aim at Question 3,…
It’s pretty clear by now that billionaire and former NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, is not a fan of the Second…
The debate over the November ballot initiative to raise the statewide minimum wage has just started – but supporters of this…
Anyone who’s ever watched the movie Stripes, starring Bill Murray, about hapless men joining the U.S. Army, should remember the…
On July 24, 2016, Bucky Owen, former commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife under Governor Angus King, wrote a column…
Supporters of Question 3 (to expand firearm background checks to private sales) continually repeat this key campaign talking point: “Question…
Something I will occasionally do while going through checkout at a store is ask the cashier what he or she…
Recently, advocates of increasing Maine’s minimum wage published a study highlighting the alleged benefits of raising Maine’s minimum wage to…
The Maine Education Association has a tremendous influence on legislators in Augusta. But make no mistake: the MEA’s mission has…
In the last few months, The Maine Wire has drawn attention to the dangers of Question 4, a proposal on…
The Ringmaster has all the answers to the questions no one is asking Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children…
Being an engaged citizen is more important today than ever. As the general election in November approaches, we as Americans…
Maine’s third-largest industry is tourism. At a size of approximately $2.2 billion and more than 85,000 jobs tied to the…
Clare Hudson Payne’s June 9 BDN OpEd in support of ranked-choice voting is an example of what happens when people do not…
Yesterday, Secretary Dunlap announced the ballot order of referendum questions for the upcoming November 8, 2016 election. The order was…
The proposal for Universal Background Checks on the November ballot seems simple, but it’s not. First of all, according to…
I have lived in Maine for sixteen years. When I first moved here, I learned of the referendum process, also…
Contrary to the grassroots image that anti-gun groups try to portray, their funding continues to come from large donations by…
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On Tuesday, June 7 the Sun Journal posted a column in which David Farmer, spokesman for the group Mainers for…
On Monday, June 13, 2016, the Maine Department of Labor formally submitted public comments to Secretary of State Matt Dunlap…
A cone was excavated by the French at the site of ancient Lagash, a prehistoric city located in Mesopotamia. The…
Here we go again. More out-of-state money pouring into Maine to help us country-bumkins stay alive and save us from…
We have made progress to lower the income tax, fight the drug epidemic, create jobs and get Mainers more involved…
The Maine Education Association is putting a dishonest initiative on the November ballot. They call it “Stand Up for Students,”…
AUGUSTA – Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has issued an amended determination on remand from the Business and Consumer Court,…
On April 15 Nathan Strout’s “Fuzzy Math in Push for Raising the Minimum Wage” questioned how deeply the Maine Peoples…
AUGUSTA – In a decision handed down today, Justice Michaela Murphy of the Kennebec County Superior Court remanded the decision…
This fall, the voters of Maine may be treated to not one but two different ballot proposals to raise the…
Last week, the Senate joined the House of Representatives in voting to indefinitely postpone LD 1662, otherwise known as the…
As I’m sure you already know, certain politicians in the state of Maine, led by the Maine People’s Alliance, wish…
By now, you’ve likely heard of the lawsuit regarding the disqualified signatures on petitions in support of a referendum to…
For the life of me I can’t understand why anyone would have the mentality to impose a citizens referendum question in Maine…
Members of the House of Representatives may have Bloomberg’s gun control ballot initiative before them for consideration as early as…
Proponents of a higher minimum wage, led by the Maine People’s Alliance, have gathered enough signatures to put their $12…
Roughly two weeks ago, just before the start of the spring semester at UMaine, I was contacted by a man…
A coalition comprised of three liberal political entities in the state of Maine have cashed in enough signatures with the…
On Monday, two pro-marijuana groups in Maine – the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol and Legalize Maine – agreed…