Shocking! MHPC exposed!

The press reveals a shocking truth:  The Maine Heritage Policy Center does not support left-wing causes!

Further, it will not associate with left-wing politicians!

And it gets funding from individuals and foundations, but it won’t reveal the names!

They’re outraged, our opinion-shapers, and they’d like to find some legal way to curb MHPC’s actions. And [...]

Good Writing About Blatant Venality

There’s a nice bit of insight into the Chicago-style political hardball that now infects our Department of Education in the article Thumb on the scales?: A tale of two fiscal notes at the MDISchools site. Amazing!

A note: “blatant”, “venality”, “Chicago-style”, “hardball”, and “infects” are all my words and phrases.  Mr. Hubbell tells the tale [...]

The Circus is in Town!*

Our legislature is in session and thus, as we’ve noted before, we’re all in some danger.  If we acknowledge that the government is not completely separate from us, an alien entity, but to some extent a projection of our hopes and dreams, than we may have to also acknowledge that we may not be completely [...]

Can you say “Taj Mahal”?

The Maine Department of Education has just issued an informational letter concerning emergency rules (one has to wonder where the fire is!) for construction of “a Model of Consolidated and Integrated Secondary and Postsecondary Education.”

This “model would include

facilities for:

A regional high school; A fully integrated career and technical high school; A higher [...]