Pine Tree Pulse Episode 2: Lawsuits, Guns and Welfare for Baseball Teams
Matt Gagnon, Jake Posik, and Harris Van Pate talk about the furious slate of bills being signed and vetoed by Governor Janet Mills, the legality of doing more legislative business, […]
Read More →The last spending battle of the 131st Legislature
Democrats in the Legislature made several questionable financial decisions in this year’s legislative session. They not only diverted money from the transportation budget for General Fund spending and spent the […]
Read More →Gov. Mills approves bill creating new tax giveaways for the Portland Sea Dogs
On April 22, Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 2258, “An Act to Create and Income Tax Credit for Investments in a Team’s Qualified Minor League Baseball Facility to […]
Read More →Environmental groups’ meritless lawsuit seeks to force adoption of unpopular EV mandates
On April 19, the Sierra Club and several environmental groups sued the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in response to its refusal to pass rules implementing the Advanced Clean […]
Read More →Legislature takes two steps back, one step forward on spending
The Maine Legislature’s last true meeting of the legislative session ended on Thursday morning, and finally, lawmakers passed the supplemental budget. Gov. Janet Mills now has until April 29th to […]
Read More →Listen: Supplemental Budget and Tax Hikes on WGAN
Policy analyst, Harris Van Pate, joined the WGAN Morning News to discuss the final passage of the supplemental budget, the attempt to increase Maine’s top marginal income tax rate, and […]
Read More →Commentary: Flavored tobacco bans are tasteless public policy
As the months-long delay in the Biden administration’s adoption of a menthol cigarette ban draws on, states and municipalities across the country are wading into these waters on their own, particularly in […]
Read More →Op-Ed: Government mandates to blame for decline of Maine education
Following the release of Maine Policy Institute’s new report on the decline of Maine K-12 education earlier this week, the Maine Department of Education responded by trying to discredit both the report […]
Read More →Gov. Mills cowardly lets NPV become law without her signature
On April 15, Maine Gov. Janet Mills issued a press release notifying the public that she allowed LD 1578, a bill that would enter Maine into the National Popular Vote […]
Read More →Pine Tree Pulse Episode 1: End of Session Madness
Maine Policy CEO, Matthew Gagnon, and Director of Legislative Affairs, Jacob Posik, unpack the flurry of bills lawmakers considered in the final days of the 131st Maine Legislature’s Second Session, […]
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