Maine Newspapers George Soros Alert
Western Maine Newspaper Group First Stiffs, Then Fires Freelancers In Cost-cutting Campaign
By Ted Cohen
November 25, 2025
Bill Pierce, one of the victims of the latest freelance swath, said he actually stopped writing months ago – because he wasn’t getting paid on time.
“I was owed for last January and June’s submissions and was not paid for them until late September,” Pierce emailed Hoffman.
“I certainly understand that you are ‘navigating an increasingly difficult economy and a changing industry,’” he told Hoffman, according to a copy of the email shared with the Maine Wire. “However, many of your once abundant and loyal customers have not left just because their budgets got tighter or that they would not shift to the digital format.”
The reality, he argued, is that the lead publications “have become nothing more than left-wing newsletters.
“The bias has not been contained to the editorial section but has run amok in the editing that does not include some of the numerous misadventures of our current leadership in Augusta,” Pierce added.
In 2023, the National Trust for Local News acquired the Portland Press Herald and other papers then-owned by Reade Brower and Maine Today Media, including the Lewiston Sun Journal, the Brunswick Time Record, the Kennebec Journal, and the Waterville Morning Sentinel.
At the time, publisher Lisa DeSisto said, and Press Herald Report Rachel Ohm relayed, that the National Trust for Local News would reveal who funded the purchase of Maine’s largest newspapers.
However, that never happened.
Instead, it fell to a journalist from Semafor to reveal that billionaire left-wing mega donors George Soros and Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss national, were behind the purchase.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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