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Matthew Gagnon

Despite budget gap warnings, Janet Mills wants to spend more

By Matthew Gagnon Gov.

A letter to my last child

By Matthew Gagnon I never really wanted to be an old father.

10 Bold Predictions for 2025

By Matthew Gagnon Every year since 2011, I have closed out the year by making bold predictions for the year that follows, and this year will be no different.

Anger at insurance companies is misplaced

By Matthew Gagnon I will admit that it takes a lot to shock me, and I don’t expect much out of social media.

What reactions to the Hunter Biden pardon tell us about the media

By Matthew Gagnon The first time the Biden administration told the American people that President Joe Biden wouldn’t pardon his son Hunter Biden was in July 2023.

Go ahead, talk politics at Thanksgiving dinner

By Matthew Gagnon It is Thanksgiving season once again, and I think you should talk about politics and religion at your dinner table.

Democrats have stark lessons to learn from election, even though they largely won in Maine

By Matthew Gagnon All in all, it wasn’t that bad of an election night for Democrats in Maine.

Why Maine should get rid of ranked-choice voting

By Matthew Gagnon This week, Maine is once again coming face to face with the foolishness of its decision to adopt ranked-choice voting in 2016.

It’s the day after the election, and everything will be just fine

By Matthew Gagnon It is unpopular to say this now, but the world is not going to end because your candidate didn’t win Tuesday night.

Gagnon right about podcasts

To the Editor; Though I rarely agree with Matthew Gagnon, his column on the value of podcasts in fostering value as more nuanced political discussion made sense to me.

Political endorsements help fuel distrust in the media

By Matthew Gagnon With less than a week until Election Day, there is a brewing melodrama surrounding newspaper endorsements.

What is polling really telling us this year?

By Matthew Gagnon One of the stories — some would say scandals — of both the 2016 and 2020 campaigns for president was how broken polling was, particularly as it related to Donald Trump.

Podcasts offer hope for deeper political discussion

By Matthew Gagnon This week we learned that both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in negotiations to appear on the “Joe Rogan Experience” prior to Election Day, which is currently the most listened to podcast in the world.

Projected budget shortfall is a sign of Maine’s fiscal mismanagemen

By Matthew Gagnon Sometimes, it’s no fun being right.

Democrats are no longer stalwart defenders of the 1st Amendment

By Matthew Gagnon “You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.

My misadventures with an electric vehicle

By Matthew Gagnon Last weekend, my wife and I were traveling with our oldest son to Pennsylvania to do a college visit and attend a baseball prospect camp at the school the next morning.

We’ve been through chaos before. We’ll get through these divisive times.

By Matthew Gagnon We’ve been here before.

9/11 changed everything, especially the Republican Party

By Matthew Gagnon Twenty-three years ago, I woke up early.

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