The Maine Secretary of State’s Office is declining to determine whether Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson is eligible to appear on November’s ballot under Maine’s so-called “sore loser” law, leaving the increasingly contentious legal dispute to the political parties and potentially the courts.
Noah Webster Warned Us: Education Without the Bible Is Useless | The Pastor’s Office ft. Steve Robinson
Maine ranks 41st in the nation in education, 43rd in reading — and it’s the least religious state in America. Coincidence? In this episode, Steve Robinson of The Maine Wire joins the Pastor’s Office to connect the dots between a state that pushed God out of the classroom and a school system in freefall.
Legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) to prevent the Department of Education from transferring several major offices to other federal agencies advanced Thursday with bipartisan support.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston heard arguments Wednesday in a case out of Maine concerning the state’s new regulations on Super PAC contributions as approved by voters at the ballot box in 2024.
This comes after Maine State Attorney General Aaron Frey, alongside a number of other defendants, appealed a lower court ruling that nixed the measure last year.
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The State House has removed the portrait of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell—once one of the most powerful Democrats in America—following renewed attention to his reported ties to Jeffrey Epstein. pic.twitter.com/SU1wkel6Lm
WASHINGTON- President Donald J. Trump announced in a Truth Social post, Saturday afternoon, that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead, calling him “one of the most evil people in History” and declaring the development “Justice for the people of Iran” and for Americans and others around the world killed or injured by the Iranian regime.
When Democrat Troy Jackson and Republican Bobby Charles threw personal insults at each other during a recent debate, it was just too rough for the dainty Portland Press Herald.
The paper’s political columnist reports that the debate’s mudslinging tone failed to uphold Maine’s “national reputation for robust, elevated state politics.”
Steve Collins went even further, fawning over Angus King for having waged gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns “that honored the state’s traditions and decency.”
That’s absolutely laughable.
Angus has a record of just the opposite. You can look it up, as Yogi Berra would say.
King is noted for having called gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Joe Brennan, 60, a mummy in a campaign ad when they ran against each other in 1994.
A mummy.
“Decency?”
That would be the same Angus King who pushed his way into the 2012 Senate race by elbowing out Democrat U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who was the heir apparent looking for a promotion to the upper chamber.
Angus made a deal behind Chellie’s back with members of her own party, promising that even though he were running as an independent he would vote with the Dems if they’d send him to Washington.
“Decency,” in the words of Steve Collins.
When Susan Collins was running for re-election to the Senate in 2020, King pretended he was neutral but used his wife put up an ad saying she was fully supporting Collins’ opponent, a Democrat.
“Decency – Angus King.”
In his column, Steve Collins never mentioned the “decency” of Democrat William Hathaway, who defeated Republican Margaret Chase Smith in the 1972 Senate race after going around suggesting she was too elderly at 74 for reelection.
“Decency.”
Or when Democrats started a whisper campaign about their own gubernatorial hopeful Mike Michaud’s sexual preferences before the 2014 primary – and blamed Republicans for outing him.
Though Michaud became the Democrat nominee, by then he was damaged goods, losing to the Republican Paul LePage.
A third candidate in that race “independent” Elliot Cutler, became the secret face of “decency” gone awry, as we since have learned. The later-convicted pedophile was engaged in pornography even then, as he now has admitted.
Gov. Janet Mills (D) is looking to make free community college a permanent fixture in Maine as part of her proposed supplemental budget.
In recent years, a pandemic-era program has allowed several classes of graduating high school seniors to attend Maine’s community colleges both tuition- and fee-free.
A year after Maine’s top license-plate boss emerged politically wounded from a scandal over faulty tags, a new chapter of Plategate is emerging.
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is now recommending to the legislature that Maine stop making its own plates altogether.
After Bellows hired a Canadian company last year to help with a new plate issue, the result became a political nightmare.
The plates feature an image of Maine’s iconic pine tree but the poor tree was misaligned on many of the finished products.
Bellows got a lot of negative publicity over the misplaced tree – not helpful as she geared up for a run at the governorship.
Her office also presided over the botched new license plate rollout, leaving motorists confused, municipalities frustrated, and law enforcement struggling with inconsistent plate designs and shifting deadlines.
WASHINGTON – Early Saturday morning, a joint U.S.-Israel military attack on Iran began, striking 14 sites as the operation got underway.
President Donald Trump confirmed on February 28, 2026, that the United States and Israel has launched what he described as a “massive and ongoing” military campaign against Iran. In a video message posted to Truth Social, Trump said the primary objective was defending the American people by eliminating “imminent threats” from the Iranian regime. The Department of War is calling it Operation Epic Fury.
