Matt Gagnon criticized the Maine Senate’s proposal to impose a millionaire tax to fund 55% of education, noting that Maine’s educational performance has declined despite increased funding. He highlighted that Maine now ranks below Mississippi in education, despite significant budget increases. Gagnon argued that increased spending has not improved outcomes, citing his children’s dislike for social-emotional learning (SEL) programs. He accused politicians of using emotional appeals to justify higher spending. Paul from South Portland agreed, emphasizing the public’s disengagement and the manipulative nature of political rhetoric.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
