Everyone has been dancing around the whispers of “Les Otten” and “the failure of American Ski Company”, hesitant to engage, or really hammer him on the subject. Well – maybe not everyone – but the …
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Saturday, the Navy Midshipmen beat the Army Black Knights 17-3 to notch their eighth straight win in the annual Army-Navy game.
This year some gubernatorial fun was had between candidates Steve Rowe and Matt Jacobson, who …
And now, for a fun little diversion today.
The Army-Navy football game is coming up this Saturday, and that seems to have spawned something of a competitive spirit in a couple of our gubernatorial candidates …
One of the more interesting things to examine about Maine’s recent fight over same sex marriage is the cohesion of the people of a particular district (in this case, we will be examining the 35 …
Advocates of gay marriage suffered yet another blow yesterday, as the New York State Senate voted 24-38 to reject a proposal that would have legalized same-sex marriages in the state of New York. Governor Patterson …
It is said that “all politics is local”.
Well, Pine Tree Politics will be taking that old saying to heart in the next several months.
We will be exploring all 151 seats in the Maine House of …
Hey, it’s Friday, it is a slow news week – why not, right?
National Geographic seems to be getting on board with that whole “Al Franken draws the United States” shtick – they asked members of …
This is a question that I have been giving a great deal of thought over the course of the last couple weeks.
I have argued – more than once – that I felt Maine was a …
This morning, Matt Gagnon of Pine Tree Politics called in to Drive Time Bangor to talk about an article written about the Federal stimulus legislation, and how it has been a giant waste of money …
That has been the big question for a lot of people, both nationally and within the state itself. Now that gay marriage has been defeated in Maine, what will happen next?
Some of have suggested that …
NOTE: I had the opportunity to write a piece on the Maine gay marriage fight which appeared in Politico today:
Long thought of as a “liberal” state by national political observers, Maine, whose voters on Tuesday …
The jaw-dropping victory by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race completes an I-95 trifecta that started in Virginia, headed north to New Jersey, and landed in the Bay State. Where does the momentum go …
Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie has been making a lot of noise lately for doing something that was entirely unexpected: being blunt, speaking truth, and pragmatically dealing with problems that his state …
Few would have believed it possible only a couple years ago, but the Republican Party is increasingly being made less hospitable for culture warriors.
I’ve been arguing since my days in college – which, looking back, …
Last Wednesday, Matt Gagnon of Pine Tree Politics called in to Drive Time Bangor to talk about the Washington D.C. Snowpocalypse, party caucuses in Maine, and the curious campaign of Jason Levesque.
Every Wednesday, Matt talks …
