MaineCare auditors attempted to recoup nearly $450,000 from the Somali-run Affinity Homecare, co-located with Rep. Yusuf Yusuf’s (D-Portland) shady Care for Everyone and a foreign money transfer station.
According to records obtained by the Maine Wire via a Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) request, auditors with the Office of MaineCare Services could find no documentation showing that the services for which Affinity billed the taxpayer-funded welfare program actually took place.
The Boston Globe columnist who previously was caught lying about being at the scene of a downtown bombing is now trying to make up for lost time on his latest gaffe.
Gaffe is actually too generous a description of Kevin Cullen’s most recent work of literature.
Cullen, who wrote sympathetically last week about a white Irish guy who was being deported as an illegal immigrant, faced a firestorm once a Boston media watchdog learned about the suspect’s alleged criminal record.
Now Cullen is trying to paper over his malaprops with a new column blaming “leaks” for exposing the truth about the detainee.
A prisoner incarcerated in the Cumberland County Jail on arson charges allegedly called the Portland Press Herald on Wednesday to make a bomb threat against the jail.
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested a Vassalboro man on Wednesday and seized 2,000 grams of cocaine following an eight-month investigation into drug trafficking operations.
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Why aren’t Maine lawmakers talking about this?
— Maine Policy Institute (@MainePolicy) February 26, 2026
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Disgraced two-time gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler was recently arrested for allegedly violating probation for the third time. He's currently held in Cumberland County Jail, and has reportedly missed court-ordered treatment as… pic.twitter.com/ekqjDb2cdx
PORTLAND, Maine – Portland Mayor Mark Dion is throwing his support behind Senate President Troy Jackson in the race for governor, framing the endorsement as a call for unified Democratic leadership in Maine.
Dion said the moment calls for leadership capable of bringing together the full spectrum of the Democratic Party, from liberal Democrats to Democratic socialists and everyone in between. He argued that if Democrats are going to move forward on substantive issues in the state, the party must be willing to “shake hands with itself.”
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed an emergency bill into law amending the requirements that must be met by nurse practitioners before they gain full practice authority.
State law previously required new nurse practitioners to spend twenty-four months, or two years, practicing under the supervision of a licensed physician or supervising nurse practitioner. Alternatively, nurse practitioners could spend this period employed by a clinic or hospital that had a licensed physician serving as a medical director.
Democrat Gov. Janet Mills may be unwittingly bringing attention to the fact she’s an antique compared to her young opponent.
“Folks, I’m the only Maine Democrat to win a statewide election in the last 20 years,” Mills said Thursday in a campaign-donation request as reported by BiddefordBuzz.com.
By claiming she’s been in public office as long as she has, Mills, 78, merely advertises Platner’s theme – that he’s a fresh new start.
Platner, 41, who polls show is far ahead of Mills in the Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate, has made clear in his campaign that he believes it’s time for a new generation of leadership.
Mills’ donation request begins by stating, “Folks, I didn’t plan to run for Senate. But I could never live with myself if I didn’t do everything in my power to stop Donald Trump’s far-right takeover,” The Buzz reports.
The governor might want to stay away from claims that underscore she’s roughly old enough to be Platner’s grandmother.
The U.S. House passed a bill on Tuesday aimed at ending burdensome efficiency standards that restrict the home appliances Americans can buy.
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The “Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act” from Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) would require the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to significantly alter its criteria when considering potential energy conservation requirements.
This is the most gangsta moment of the night asking if Pelosi stood up when he called out stopping Congressional insider trading😂🫡 pic.twitter.com/JXsa9V31Fm
— 👮♂️The Badged Patriot👮♂️ (@BadgedPatriot) February 25, 2026
The alleged “white supremacy” Zohran Mamdani was railing against while attending Bowdoin College was nothing compared to the whiteout he’s now up against in New York City.
In his first political firestorm as the first Muslim mayor of the nation’s largest city, Mamdani is being criticized for failing to support cops injured this week in a snowball attack.
NYPD had responded to a snowball fight in a city park that had allegedly gotten out of hand.
But when the snowballers saw the word POLICE on officers’ uniforms, they began pelting them with chunks of ice, injuring two cops.
In fact, some of the snowballing hoodlums claimed they thought the cops were ICE.
The city’s police commissioner – who Mamdani hired – is calling on her boss to investigate what she calls assaults on police officers.
But Mamdani, who made it well-known during his mayoral campaign he hates cops, is refusing to take the bait.
He’s minimizing the melee in the park that left two police officers injured as nothing more than a good old-fashioned snowball fight.
“I’ve said that what I saw was a snowball fight,” the mayor said Wednesday. “It should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand. But that’s what it was.”
Former NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said the mayor is jeopardizing his relationship with the department.
“Not to back up the men and women is really, really bad. It’s as bad as you can get,” Boyce said. “So, this is a seminal moment, right here and we’ll see how it goes from here. Because I think it’s important to understand just how important this is to the police department.”
“This was not just a ‘snowball fight.’ This was an assault,” the Police Benevolent Association said in a statement.
Besides being anti-cop – except when they’re protecting him – Mamdani’s four years at Bowdoin included many student-newspaper columns he wrote accusing the elite liberal arts college of white supremacy – and where he founded Students for Justice in Palestine.
In one Bowdoin student-newspaper column he headlined “White Privilege,” in 2013, Mamdani called for a wider “diversity” of opinion writers.
During his campaign for mayor, Mamdani, a socialist Democrat, apologized for language he’d previously used to describe the police department, once referring to it in a social media post as “racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety.”
