Opinions & Insights

This tax is not fiscal stewardship. It is a gamble, and everyday Mainers will be left with the bill when it doesn’t pay off.

The data is damning. All but a single county in Maine lost licensed child care providers between 2018 and 2025. And the bills moving…

Our state should be an affordable place to live. Augusta is making that harder than it needs to be.

Maine winters are not theoretical. There are propane tanks that need filling, heating oil deliveries budgeted months in advance and electric bills that spike…

This piece was first published on X. Read and share it here. Gov. Janet Mills just dropped a 111-page supplemental budget that significantly grows…

We can keep expanding government, raising taxes and wondering why everything gets more expensive. Or we can try something different: Admit that Augusta is…

Sen. Bruce Bickford writes on the importance of energy policy to Mainers’ household budgets, thanking Sen. Susan Collins for her leadership.

Parents have long been a force in driving necessary educational change. Parents, grandparents and all those invested in the next generation must once again…

Sen. Stacy Guerin calls for clear standard for businesses making good-faith efforts to comply with new PFML rules.

Fraud, corruption and political favoritism. This doesn’t sound like the Lewiston I grew up in.

The recent exposure of the corruption in Minnesota by immigrants from Somalia has shown how a feckless media, in league with corrupt politicians, can…

Maine is facing a housing crisis that threatens our economic competitiveness and quality of life. Reducing regulatory barriers that delay housing development is essential…