MHPC Opponent: Yes, They’re Effective
The Maine Municipal Association recently delivered 2,000 pages of email messages in response to MHPC’s Freedom of Access Act request. The email consisted of Geoff Herman’s and Chris Lockwood’s TABOR-related […]
Read More →Education issues to take center stage in Governor’s race?
I want to take a quick time-out from my ongoing analysis of Maine’s Race to the Top application in order to discuss a fiery op-ed from gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler, […]
Read More →Inside Maine’s Race to the Top application, Part 10
On Wednesday, I expressed the hope that some stronger sections are coming in the state’s Race to the Top application, and after looking at sections D(4) and D(5), one of […]
Read More →James Madison on the Framers
Our principal source for the inner workings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 is James Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. The Debates are the actual minutes of […]
Read More →Can the Federal Government Tell Us What to Eat?
While I agree with many commentators that the Elena Kagan hearings have begun to resemble a rather bad Gilbert & Sullivan production, there was one very revealing moment during yesterday’s […]
Read More →Congratulations to our nominees
The Maine Heritage Policy Center congratulates Democrat Senate President Elizabeth “Libby” Mitchell and Republican Mayor Paul LePage for winning their parties’ nominations for governor. We look forward to Ms. Mitchell, […]
Read More →MHPC Sues Maine Municipal Association Over Improper Electioneering Expenditures – Documents Available
Today the Center for Constitutional Government filed suit on behalf of four plaintiffs against the Maine Municipal Association over its improper interference with five citizens’ initiatives during the period 2003-2009. […]
Read More →What Maine’s “Tax Reform” Will Do For Your Wedding
The “tax reform” legislation currently suspended pending the Peoples Veto vote next month is anything but a meaningful reform. Rather, it’s what a legislative body does whilst trying to avoid […]
Read More →Welcome to the Administrative State
Hidden beneath the uproar of electoral politics, oil spills and the like is a mini-uproar over the EPA’s new lead paint rules, which will probably double the cost of every […]
Read More →Maine’s Energy Burden
Unfortunately, there is a dearth of good comparative energy information by state. I recently found the website of the Institute for Energy Research that not only ranks the 50 states […]
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