Archives
- 2008.12.03: Former IBM chief's education reform ideas
- 2008.11.24: School Choice op-ed in today's Bangor Daily
- 2008.11.18: How do you save school choice? One vote at a time.
- 2008.11.17: Maine Earnings versus Transfer Payments
- 2008.11.14: Could consolidation lead to MORE school choice?
- 2008.11.11: The Obama family enjoys school choice, why not you?
- 2008.11.06: Consolidation proves popular...
- 2008.11.05: School choice saved by voters in Raymond and Orland
- 2008.10.30: Does Maine Support MAINE?
- 2008.10.29: New Report Shows Widespread Support for School Choice in Maine
- 2008.10.28: Predictions for Consolidation Plans
- 2008.10.27: Taxes Matter XVI
- 2008.10.25: Maine versus New Hampshire VII
- 2008.10.23: Education news roundup
- 2008.10.17: Price of Cigarettes to Increase for Mainers
- 2008.10.03: Federal Expenditures in Maine, 2007
- 2008.09.23: MaineOpenGov.Org
- 2008.09.19: Maine's Private Sector
- 2008.09.16: Movement afoot on charter schools and teacher pay reform?
- 2008.09.15: New report sheds light on remediation costs for colleges
- 2008.09.08: Dropping of MEA test results raises questions
- 2008.09.05: Pupil numbers down, school staff numbers up
- 2008.09.04: Consolidation update
- 2008.09.03: Portland's teacher pay problem
- 2008.08.29: Vermont versus New Hampshire
- 2008.08.26: The Chicken or the Egg?
- 2008.08.25: 1 in 9 Privately Insured Have an HSA
- 2008.08.22: Glass half full time at Maine Dept. of Education
- 2008.08.18: Maine versus New Hampshire VI
- 2008.08.13: Sheepscot Valley consolidation plan would preserve choice
- 2008.08.12: Warning: Higher Cigarette Taxes are Bad for your State Budget
- 2008.08.11: School Choice coalition launched in Virginia
- 2008.08.08: School Choice now a felony in Broward County, Florida
- 2008.08.07: Great video on school choice from our friends in Britain
- 2008.08.05: Economic Freedom in Maine
- 2008.08.05: Another consolidation plan goes down the tubes
- 2008.07.31: School Voucher advocate Milton Friedman being recognized today
- 2008.07.30: Exciting Budget Conference
- 2008.07.29: School budget validation process working as designed
- 2008.07.28: Is Maine in a Recession?
- 2008.07.22: Tax Caps Coming to a City Near You . . .
- 2008.07.14: Vermont sales tax holiday a big hit
- 2008.07.10: Freeport School Board shoots down consolidation plan
- 2008.07.09: Public Payroll vs. Private Payroll?
- 2008.07.09: Ever Have An Excise Tax Credit?
- 2008.07.09: Reorganization update: Falmouth gets cold feet, opposition group in Freeport organizes against consolidation plan
- 2008.07.03: Utah state government goes to a 4-day workweek
- 2008.07.03: Maine's Real Uninsured Rate - Less Than 1 Person in 20
- 2008.07.03: Maine plunges on technology index
- 2008.07.02: DHHS Learning from Enron's Accountants?
- 2008.07.01: On Open Government...
- 2008.07.01: First RSU takes power today
- 2008.06.08: $60 Million - Improve Health for 112 Million Kids or Run Dirigo for One Year?
- 2008.06.07: Massachusetts Health Plan Update - High Costs, Mixed Results
- 2008.06.06: State Offering Help with Unused Medications - Consumers Barely Responding
- 2008.06.06: Transparency Insight
- 2008.06.03: Portland Press Herald supports school choice?
- 2008.05.30: Voters taking advantage of school budget validation process
- 2008.05.30: Maine DHHS Denies Patients Improved Health Technology
- 2008.05.20: School Choice in the news
- 2008.05.09: Is school choice being preserved as school districts consolidate? Not really.
- 2008.05.07: More on Cigarette Smuggling
- 2008.05.01: Consolidation Conundrums Continue...
- 2008.04.29: Cigarette Smuggling and Crime/Terrorism
- 2008.04.29: School Choice issues fill the op-ed pages
- 2008.04.22: Energy Costs Matter Too . . .
- 2008.04.22: So what ultimately happened with school consolidation?
- 2008.04.18: $100 a day and what do you get...
- 2008.04.10: Continuing Consolidation Chaos...
- 2008.04.08: R.I.P., LD 1932
- 2008.04.02: Cigarette Tax Quote of the Day
- 2008.04.01: OPEGA to remain in place - for now...
- 2008.03.28: Will OPEGA make it out alive?
- 2008.03.27: The 2008 Most Livable State Award Goes to . . .
- 2008.03.27: Consumer Directed Health Care Saves $
- 2008.03.26: Florida seeks to dump Certificate of Need - Maine should too
- 2008.03.25: Just when you thought it was Safe to Grab that Bag of Doritos . . .
- 2008.03.25: Innovations from Health Providers - Concierge Care
- 2008.03.24: Fire Investigation and Prevention Tax
- 2008.03.21: Dirigo Bill Passes Committee with Huge Tax Increase
- 2008.03.20: Maine Migration by County
- 2008.03.17: Maine versus New Hampshire V
- 2008.03.14: Southport to deny voters budget validation vote
- 2008.03.06: Maine versus New Hampshire IV
- 2008.03.05: Maine versus New Hampshire III
- 2008.03.04: Declining State Tax Collections
- 2008.02.26: Education Committee looking to take school budget vote rights away from thousands of Mainers
- 2008.02.25: Milk Pool and Other Milk Fees
- 2008.02.21: Maine versus New Hampshire II
- 2008.02.21: Should Maine Conform to "Bonus Depreciation"?
- 2008.02.15: In Augusta, Deja Vu all over again
- 2008.02.13: New Bath-area RSU continues assault on school choice
- 2008.02.13: "Super School Union" amendment to LD1932 advances in Senate
- 2008.02.12: Maine versus New Hampshire I
- 2008.02.12: The Milk Handling Fee
- 2008.02.07: Lincoln County News: School and Municipal leaders to break law, deny voters a School Budget Validation vote
- 2008.02.01: President Bush's "Pell Grants for Kids" program
- 2008.01.29: 2008 Maine Economic Forecast
- 2008.01.28: Is Tourism Maine's Largest Industry?
- 2008.01.28: Tax Policy in Maine
- 2008.01.24: How Many Mainers Shop in New Hampshire?
- 2008.01.23: "Cap and Trade" to Reduce State Government Workforce?
- 2008.01.23: Whither consolidation reform?
- 2008.01.21: 2007 Index of Worker Freedom
- 2008.01.18: More on Maine Demographics
- 2008.01.10: Taxes Matter XV
- 2008.01.07: Migration Letter-to-the-Editor
- 2008.01.05: Corporate Tax Loophole?
- 2007.12.27: Maine's In-Migration Comes to an End
- 2007.12.21: 2007 Third Quarter Personal Income
- 2007.12.14: Another Index, Another Bad Score for Maine
- 2007.12.14: New York Sun: Wisconsin teachers union fights successful virtual school
- 2007.12.05: AP: U.S. students do worse in science and math
- 2007.12.04: Maine's Quality of Place
- 2007.11.28: State Treasurer Loses $20,000,000
- 2007.11.28: Occupational Licensing
- 2007.11.27: Center for College Affordability and Productivity: The REAL reasons why Universities cost too much
- 2007.11.26: How Many People in Maine are 25 to 34?
- 2007.11.26: Maine ranks #47 in tax climate for small business
- 2007.11.26: British Court Rules Gore Film Partisan, Riddled with Errors
- 2007.11.14: Taxes Matter XIV: Government Employment is Bad for Economic Growth
- 2007.11.13: New Hampshire's Business Enterprise Tax
- 2007.11.09: Portsmouth Herald: Baldacci's Maine school consolidation idea unravels
- 2007.11.05: BDN - Greenville's small school a key to its community
- 2007.11.05: Volunteer-Staffed, Free Clinics Help the Uninsured
- 2007.11.02: Taxes Matter XIII: Tax Planning
- 2007.11.01: Why are we consolidating schools again?
- 2007.10.26: New England Economic Indicators
- 2007.10.25: Tax Relief and Upcoming Congressional Elections
- 2007.10.22: MHPC in the middle of the Bath/Union 47 consolidation debate
- 2007.10.18: Maine Taxpayers Dodge a Bullet on SCHIP
- 2007.10.18: Economic Clusters--Good or Bad for Maine?
- 2007.10.18: Times-Record Editorial: Time to Stop Consolidation Effort
- 2007.10.17: BDN Letter to Editor shows MHPC research getting out there
- 2007.10.15: Odd, People Will Buy Affordable Insurance if Given the Chance
- 2007.10.15: Brookings Report and Maine Per Capita Income
- 2007.10.15: Morning Sentinel / KJ : Sinclair Act recalled by current consolidation efforts
- 2007.10.10: Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Index
- 2007.10.09: More Federal Dollars Pouring into Maine . . .
- 2007.10.05: Consolidation law repeal effort gaining support
- 2007.10.04: Lincoln County News: Consolidation work "nightmarish"
- 2007.10.01: Helping People Help Themselves to be Healthier
- 2007.10.01: Another Tax Masquerading as a Fee?
- 2007.09.28: Innovations in the Individual Market
- 2007.09.27: Americans like their own insurance but worry about others
- 2007.09.27: Universal Access to Health Care or Universal Coverage
- 2007.09.26: An End to the Era of Defined Benefits
- 2007.09.25: KeepMECurrent: Raymond residents fear loss of school choice
- 2007.09.21: KeepMECurrent.com: State refusing to take no for an answer from western Maine schools
- 2007.09.20: Health Savings Accounts Growing – projected 7 million by Jan 08
- 2007.09.19: Wal-Mart Upgrades and Innovates its Health Benefit
- 2007.09.18: Maine gets an A?
- 2007.09.18: Maine Education Association spends $1000 in Utah
- 2007.09.17: SeacoastOnline: Dept. of Ed to use special legislation to make consolidation work
- 2007.09.13: Taxes Matter XII: Sales, Profit and Excise Taxes are Most Economically Destructive
- 2007.09.12: Model Legislation in Action
- 2007.09.12: Republican Journal: SAD 56 considers joining anti-consolidation effort
- 2007.09.10: WCSH News: Will "Town Academies" Survive School Consolidation?
- 2007.09.06: Taxes Matter XI: "Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity"
- 2007.09.05: BDN: Effort opposing consolidation moves forward
- 2007.09.01: BDN Op-ed: Best way to keep local school may be to close it
- 2007.08.31: Challenges of an Aging Population
- 2007.08.31: Column in the Ellsworth American
- 2007.08.30: BDN: East Machias to battle state on school plan
- 2007.08.27: Not Just a Generic Kickback
- 2007.08.25: Greenlaw: "The time has come" to repeal consolidation law
- 2007.08.23: SAD 61: "We will go it alone"
- 2007.08.23: PPH: School Choice ending in Portland
- 2007.08.22: NCSL: Junket or Conference?
- 2007.08.22: Tourism Hypocrisy
- 2007.08.22: BDN consolidation news
- 2007.08.21: Innovations in the Individual Market
- 2007.08.20: Home Foreclosures and Taxes
- 2007.08.13: WANTED: Real Budget Reductions
- 2007.08.10: Ellsworth American on Consolidation law : "Just say no"
- 2007.08.08: Governor Bush Brings Record of Leadership and Policy Accomplishment to Maine
- 2007.08.08: SCHIP Myth Versus Reality - Lessons from TN
- 2007.08.07: Innovative New Employer Health Plans
- 2007.08.07: Changes in Health Benefits - Sticks and Carrots Add Punch to Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans
- 2007.08.06: California Teacher's Unions support Charter School movement
- 2007.08.06: Consolidation plan is poorly crafted draft
- 2007.08.02: Comments on The State Government "Gravy Train"
- 2007.08.02: Charter Schools outperforming traditional schools in New Orleans
- 2007.08.01: Out-of-State Liberals Setting Up Shop in Maine
- 2007.08.01: SCHIP Humor
- 2007.08.01: SCHIP and Maine
- 2007.07.29: Democrats in Congress likely to shut down D.C. school voucher program
- 2007.07.26: Getting a State-Funded Health Care in Order Is Key to Getting the Entire Fiscal House in Order
- 2007.07.26: Ellsworth American: University System Needs Overhaul
- 2007.07.25: Greater Accountability Needed in Portland School Budgets
- 2007.07.25: Small Schools Face Extinction as State Pushes Consolidation
- 2007.07.25: Fishing License? Or Fishing Tax?
- 2007.07.24: Innovations in Health Insurance for Businesses
- 2007.07.24: Jeb Bush - The Education Governor
- 2007.07.23: Coverage Does Not Equal Access - Why a Medicaid Card is Often Just as Bad as Being Uninsured
- 2007.07.20: Lessons from Massachusetts
- 2007.07.19: State, university salary study likely
- 2007.07.19: I'm Going to Disney World
- 2007.07.18: Expanding SCHIP will Increase the Total Cost of Private Health Insurance
- 2007.07.18: Medicaid/SCHIP Expansion Would Raise Mainer's Federal Taxes
- 2007.07.17: Taxes Matter X: "Tax Increases are Highly Contractionary"
- 2007.07.12: Why does the State Planning Office ignore cost of living data?
- 2007.07.11: Forbes "Best States for Business"
- 2007.07.10: Taxes Matter IX: Smart Growth and Taxes
- 2007.07.03: The Union ‘Gravy Train’
- 2007.06.28: Maine's Business Climate Takes Another Blow
- 2007.06.27: The state gravy train rolls on
- 2007.06.26: State Government "Gravy Train" Rolls On . . .
- 2007.06.21: Opportunity Maine Tax Credit
- 2007.06.20: The Reach of State Government
- 2007.06.18: 2025
- 2007.06.13: Tax Reform Plan is Not Revenue-Neutral Update
- 2007.06.12: More Hidden Taxes in Budget
- 2007.06.11: Maine versus New Hampshire Factoid
- 2007.06.07: Budget
- 2007.06.06: When Losing is a Small Victory
- 2007.06.05: Tax Reform Plan is Not Revenue-Neutral
- 2007.06.01: Here They Come . . . New Hidden Tax Increases
- 2007.05.30: Low Taxes Spur New Hampshire’s Economic Growth
- 2007.05.30: Government Liabilities Growing Rapidly
- 2007.05.25: Dirigo - Self-Insure = Self-Destruct (Even Sooner)
- 2007.05.25: Projected FY 2006 State and Local Tax Collections
- 2007.05.24: Another tax hike - Real Estate Transfer Tax Hike...
- 2007.05.23: Raising taxes to lower taxes…?
- 2007.05.22: Maine County Receives More Than 50 Percent of Personal Income from the Government
- 2007.05.22: Taxes Matter VIII: Gas Taxes and Cost of Living
- 2007.05.18: Property rights take the backseat to mud puddles
- 2007.05.10: Op-ed on Consolidation in today's KJ
- 2007.05.09: Waning laptop programs expelled from schools
- 2007.05.09: Taxes Matter VII: Tax Progressivity and Education
- 2007.05.07: State Tax Buden Still on the Rise
- 2007.05.02: Dirigo Health Falters
- 2007.05.02: Why Single Payor Scares Me
- 2007.05.01: Tax Foundation Responds
- 2007.04.30: Misleading Tax Op-Ed
- 2007.04.25: Do Market Forces Affect Compensation Levels?
- 2007.04.24: AARP Finds Religion
- 2007.04.23: Wagon Pullers versus Wagon Riders
- 2007.04.20: Maine’s budget shortfall an anomaly
- 2007.04.16: Who is Paying all the Taxes?
- 2007.04.11: Question of the day
- 2007.04.09: Most Livable State
- 2007.04.07: 18 Million to be in HSAs by end of 2007
- 2007.04.04: Replacing Bad Policy with Worse Policy
- 2007.04.02: Your tax dollars at work...
- 2007.04.02: HSA Plans Cutting Down on Unnecessary Emergency Room Use
- 2007.03.30: How to Cover the Young and Uninsured - Oddly, It's Not through Dirigo
- 2007.03.26: Taxes Matter VI . . . more than "Public Investment"
- 2007.03.21: BDN Op-Ed: Still time for compromise on education reform
- 2007.03.19: Why Ireland is Thriving: Lessons for Maine
- 2007.03.19: The Cigarette and Tobacco Products License Fees
- 2007.03.13: Imagine Calling a Maine Hospital and Getting an Advance Price on the Cost of Your Treatment
- 2007.03.08: The Tobacco Products Tax
- 2007.03.07: Taxes Matter V . . . Oh, and Regulation too.
- 2007.03.06: Some Good Health Care News
- 2007.02.28: Expanding Sales Tax to Services is Bad Tax Policy
- 2007.02.16: Additions to Tax Reform Testimony
- 2007.02.07: Retired Government Worker Benefits Finally Accounted
- 2007.02.05: The Cigarette Tax
- 2007.02.05: Which State has the Largest Private Sector?
- 2007.02.02: MHPC Schools Report Getting Editorial Support
- 2007.01.31: Reduction of Administration Costs Should Extend Beyond Schools
- 2007.01.25: Increasing Personal Current Transfer Receipts in Maine
- 2007.01.05: An Inauspicious Start to a 2nd Term
- 2006.12.22: The Insurance Premium Tax
- 2006.12.22: New Population Data from the Census Bureau
- 2006.12.20: Personal Income in Maine, 3rd Quarter
- 2006.12.18: Innovations in Walk-in Physician Care
- 2006.12.14: Taxes Matter IV
- 2006.12.11: HSAs just got even better
- 2006.12.11: Harmful Gross Receipts Taxes
- 2006.12.08: Lone Star Leading the Way on Competition in Healthcare
- 2006.11.28: Poverty in Maine
- 2006.11.20: Atlas Migration Study: Low Tax States Gaining Population
- 2006.11.09: Economic Freedom of North America
- 2006.11.01: The Meals and Lodging Tax
- 2006.11.01: Maine threatens to steal the New Hampshire Advantage
- 2006.10.31: Americans Moving to Ireland?
- 2006.09.21: High Taxes Lower Economic Performance
- 2006.09.07: Capitalism is Good for the Environment
- 2006.09.01: The Commercial Forestry Excise Tax
- 2006.08.31: Taxes Matter III
- 2006.08.21: The Mining Excise Tax
- 2006.08.21: Taxes Matter II
- 2006.08.18: More Maine Rankings
- 2006.08.08: From 2002 to 2004 state and local tax collections as a percent of personal income increased
- 2006.08.04: Are the Rich Getting Richer?
- 2006.07.31: More on the Sales Tax
- 2006.07.28: Environmental Protection Fees
- 2006.07.28: What Economic Forecasters are Saying about the Maine Economy
- 2006.07.24: WSJ Poll - Majority Supports Insurance Discounts for Those with Healthy Lifestyles
- 2006.07.20: How High is Maine's Level of Taxation?
- 2006.07.17: Economic Danger Signs
- 2006.07.16: Make Healthy Choices, Get a Discount on Your Health Insurance - But Not in Maine
- 2006.07.13: Personal Income In Maine
- 2006.07.13: HSAs - Proven Effective at Improving Health and Increasing Wealth
- 2006.07.06: Democrats touting tax cuts - but not in Maine
- 2006.07.06: Taxing Seasonal Residents
- 2006.06.29: The Lottery Tax
- 2006.06.29: "Maine Struggling to Revive Ailing Economy"
- 2006.06.28: Baloney Season In Full Bloom
- 2006.06.27: 3 June reports cite Maine's poor performance
- 2006.06.27: Innovations in Health Insurance - 3-year fixed premiums
- 2006.06.22: What is Tax Incidence?
- 2006.06.21: How Governments Grab Land: Interview w/ Chuck Cushman by Mary Adams & Scott K Fish
- 2006.06.20: Maine GSP Growth Troubling
- 2006.06.15: Government Spending and Economic Development
- 2006.06.14: Willing Seller - A Myth
- 2006.06.13: The Blueberry Tax
- 2006.06.12: Death Tax Survives
- 2006.06.08: The Looming Demographic Crisis
- 2006.06.06: Taxing, Spending, or Not
- 2006.06.05: Reagan - We Remember & Celebrate
- 2006.06.05: Mainers: Taxes Hurt the Economy
- 2006.06.02: More on Uninsured Maine Motorist Insurance
- 2006.06.01: New Hidden Tax/Fee of the Week
- 2006.06.01: Taxes Matter
- 2006.05.31: Gotcha…at least in our minds
- 2006.05.25: The Rising Cost of Complying with the Federal Income Tax
- 2006.05.24: Who's Paying for Maine's Uninsured Motorists? You!
- 2006.05.24: New Hidden Tax/Fee of the Week
- 2006.05.23: Health Savings Account - take a look for yourself
- 2006.05.23: The Little Secret Hidden in the Recently Passed Federal Tax Cut
- 2006.05.22: A Conservative Correction
- 2006.05.18: Hidden Taxes and Fees
- 2006.05.17: Another SOP from Dirigo
- 2006.05.16: Why I'm Here in the First Place!
- 2006.05.15: Forgotten Budgeting Basics
- 2006.05.12: That Pesky Data
- 2006.05.11: Tax Reform
