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6 days ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
An ex-Portland Press Herald scribe who calls Trump “an authoritarian threat” will soon be joined on a Maine stage by a co-conspirator. After all, Colin Woodard and Rachel Maddow were already joined – at the hip – in their shared venom for the Republican president. So their joint appearance Saturday night at the State Theater in Portland will be just more of the same.
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1 week ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
Biddeford’s hard work to usher in an urban renaissance has been challenged of late by one family where murder appears to run in the bloodlines. In this still-randy mill city, the sister of a guy who shot and killed her boy toy has now pleaded guilty to her own, violent form of enforcing her own brand of Biddeford-Saco silence. Ariana Tito, 19, of Biddeford to elevated aggravated assault with the use of a firearm in the shooting of her brother’s gal pal.
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1 week ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
When Wells town officials tried to defend being the only Maine town working with federal immigration officials, guess who quickly invoked “religion.”None other than a woman using the vague title of “bishop” in a roomful of townspeople – with the help of the Portland Press Herald, which anointed her the mouthpiece for the anti-Trumpers.
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1 week ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
If the aging members of Congress are too old to be in touch or effective, they have a role model – Grampa Joe. Former president Joe Biden reminded Americans of his infirmity this week when he launched a full-scale denunciation of President Trump during in his first interview since leaving the White House, accusing Trump of conduct “beneath” the presidency.
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1 week ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
A midcoast Maine city that went from raucous motorcycle gangs to boutique coffee houses has now once again flipped the scales. The Rockland police chief is calling for portable concrete “Jersey barriers” for public protection at outdoor community events. In particular, Chief Tim Carroll suggested that stronger barricades be erected to prevent motorists from driving into pedestrians at events. How far we have been.
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1 week ago | 
patch.com | Ted Cohen
If Angus King II’s governorship were a blueprint for his son's could-be term, Angus III’s would be an abject failure - just like his father's was. In the wake of two terms as Maine's chief executive, the old man left Maine taxpayers with a $1 billion deficit. Along the way, Angus II was also the guy who came up with the ill-fated, middle-school laptop plan that we’re still paying for at the tune of $12 million a year.
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1 week ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
A disciple of a legendary Washington sports reporter originally from Maine has manufactured a new arena for bashing Trump – the Kentucky Derby. By all logic, Kevin Blackistone, who says his beat “focuses on the intersection of sports, race, and politics,” shouldn’t be one complaining about freedom. After all, he grew up privileged, an admirer of acclaimed Washington Post sports writer Shirley Povich, whose family immigrated – legally – to Maine in the early 1900s from oppressive Lithuania.
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1 week ago | 
patch.com | Ted Cohen
If Maine’s anti-gun crowd resents the fake award the Portland Press Herald is boasting about possibly receiving for doing nothing, it’s for good reason. The Press Herald in cahoots with Maine Public and PBS is trumpeting the “award” nomination they received from National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences for their lame coverage of the 2023 mass killing in Lewiston.
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2 weeks ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
Twenty-five years ago famed conservative David Horowitz got invited to lecture at Bates College – and then got scolded by the dean who’d brought him to campus. The dean had actually wanted to expose students to the conservative viewpoint so he bravely invited one of the world’s best-known rightists to campus. Horowitz, a native of New York City, died this week at age 86 at his Colorado home after a long battle with cancer.
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2 weeks ago | 
themainewire.com | Ted Cohen
A Maine “journalist” who says he “goes places – and tells stories – that other media won’t” also does something other media don’t – gives away free pot. Now there’s journalism we can get behind!Or heck, get high on. That Crash Barry, he’s a Cracker Jack!Seems Barry, who prides himself on journalistic independence, decided one way to increase his numbers – or “hits,” so to speak – is giving away, well, hits.
