Minimum wage propaganda drives higher prices and taxes
Maine’s progressives have been selling the benefits of the minimum wage increase using faulty analysis. Don’t buy the hype. Our businesses and our state budget will face significant challenges when […]
Read More →Cutting Taxes has helped, not hurt, Kansas
Facts can be dangerous to an argument. Perhaps that’s why opponents of income tax reform routinely choose to omit crucial facts and key information when making their case that lowering […]
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Advisory: The Maine Heritage Policy Center’s 2014 Freedom and Opportunity Luncheon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 22, 2014 Mr. Brent Bozell to headline The Maine Heritage Policy Center’s 2014 Freedom and Opportunity Luncheon – DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew to receive 2014 Freedom […]
Read More →Four Reasons Maine Needs to Reform Unfunded Government Employee Pensions
There is no doubt – unfunded government employee pensions are bankrupting our future. Without reform, Maine families face crumbling roads, failing schools, a broken health care safety net, and even […]
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Right-sizing Maine’s State Government Workforce
The basis of comparison in this study is the examination of the number of Maine’s state government jobs relative to the number of jobs in the private sector as compared […]
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350 Attend Eighth Annual Freedom and Opportunity Luncheon
350 people attended The Maine Heritage Policy Center’s eighth annual Freedom and Opportunity Luncheon on Wednesday, breaking the previous attendance record of 312 in 2008. Governor-Elect Paul LePage and his […]
Read More →Election Day and Maine’s Education Future
At long last, Election Day is here. The votes cast today will, of course, have a huge impact on the development of public policy generally, but it is education issues […]
Read More →New report calls for Maine to adopt charter schools, school vouchers
A new report from Envision Maine is in the news, with articles about it in the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News. The BDN even goes so far […]
Read More →The MEA comes after Paul LePage
Looks like Al Diamon isn’t the only one who sees Waterville mayor Paul LePage as the one to beat in the race to be Maine’s next governor. The Maine Education […]
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, […]
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