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.
Weblink to the full article:
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/11/western-maine-newspaper-group-...
Comment
The rise and fall of empires, nations and city states had nothing to do with CO2.
In any case more CO2 gives more warmth, prolongs the Present Warm Period., which is a good thing
CO2 IS AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FOR GROWING FLORA AND FAUNA; NET ZERO IS A SUICIDE PACT
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-an-absolutely-v...
By Willem Post
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The IPCC, etc., has endowed CO2 gas as having magical global warming power, based on its own “science”
The IPCC, etc., claims, CO2 acts as Climate Control Knob, that eventually will cause runaway Climate Change, if we continue using fossil fuels.
The IPCC, etc., denies the Little Ice Age, uses fraudulent computer temperature projections.
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Governments proclaimed: Go Wind and Solar, Go ENERGIEWENDE, go Net zero by 2050, etc., and provided oodles of subsidies, and rules and regulations, and mandates, and prohibitions to make it happen.
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Net-zero by 2050 to-reduce CO2 is a super-expensive suicide pact, to:
1) increase command/control by governments, and
2) enable the moneyed elites to become more powerful and richer, at the expense of all others, by using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media to spread scare-mongering slogans and brainwash people, already for at least 50 years; extremely biased CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, NBC ABC, CBS come to mind.
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CO2, just 0.042% in the atmosphere, is a weak absorber of a small fraction of the absorbable, low-energy IR photons.
CO2 has near-zero influence on world surface temperatures.
CO2 is a life-giving molecule. Greater CO2 ppm in atmosphere is an essential ingredient for:
1) increased green flora, which increases fauna all over the world, including desert areas, and
2) increased crop yields to better feed 8 billion people.
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At About 30% Annual W/S Electricity on the Grid, Various Costs Increase Exponentially
The W/S systems uglify the countryside, kill birds and bats, whales and dolphins, fisheries, tourism, view-sheds, etc.
The weather-dependent, variable/intermittent W/S output, often too-little and often too-much, creates grid-disturbing difficulties that become increasingly more challenging and more costly (c/kWh) to counteract, as proven by the UK and California for the past 5 years, and Germany for the past 10 years, and recently in Spain/Portugal.
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All have “achieved” near-zero, real- growth GDPs, the highest electricity prices (c/kWh) in the EU, and stagnant real wages for almost all people, while further enriching the moneyed elites who live in the poshest places.
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Native People Suffer Extra Burdens: Their angry, over-taxed, over-regulated native populations, already burdened by the wind/solar/batteries nonsense, and then further burdened by the bureaucrat/moneyed elites bringing in tens of millions of uninvited, unvetted, uneducated, unskilled, ghetto-trash, crime-prone, poor folks, from dysfunctional countries.
Those folks are sucking from the multiple, government-program tits, while making:
1) minimal efforts to produce goods and services; and
2) maximum efforts to be chaotic, culture-destroying burden, the native populations never voted for.
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Minimal Temperature Change due to CO2: The climate is not any different, even though, atmosphere CO2 increased from 280 ppm in 1850 to 420 ppm in 2025, 50% in 175 years. During that time, world surface temps increased by at most 1.5 C +/- 0.25 C, of which:
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1) Urban heat islands account for about 65% (0.65 x 1.5 = 0.975 C) of the warming, such as the UHI of about 700 miles, from north of Portland, Maine, to south of Norfolk, Virginia, forested in 1850, now covered with heat-absorbing human detritus, plus the waste heat of fuel burning.
Japan, China, India, Europe, etc., have similar heat islands
About 65% of the US linear warming trend between 1895 and 2023 was due to increasing population density at the suburban and urban stations; 8% of the warming was due to urbanization at rural stations. Most of that UHI effect warming occurred before 1970.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/16/live-at-1-p-m-eastern-shock-...
2) CO2 accounts for less than 0.3 C, with the rest from
3) Long-term, inter-acting cycles, such as coming out of the Little Ice Age,
4) Earth surface volcanic activity, and other changes, such as from increased agriculture, deforestation, especially in the Tropics, etc.
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BTW, the 1850 surface temp measurements were only in a few locations and mostly inaccurate, +/- 0.5 C.
The 1979-to-present temp measurements (46 years) cover most of the earth surface and are more accurate, +/- 0.25 C, due to NASA satellites.
Any graphs should show accuracy bands.
The wiggles in below image are due to plants rotting late in the year, emitting CO2, plants growing early in the year, consuming CO2, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere. See URL
https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/about.html
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Here are 5 articles attesting to the small global warming role of human CO2 in the atmosphere
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Eight Taiwanese Engineers Determine Climate Sensitivity to a 300 ppm CO2 Increase Is 'Negligibly Small'
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/eight-taiwanese-engine...
By Kenneth Richard
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The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...
By Fred F. Mueller
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Achieving 'Net Zero by 2050' Reduces Temps by 0.28 C Costing Tens of $TRILLIONS
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/achieving-net-zero-by-...
By Kenneth Richard
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German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming ...Practically Insignificant
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/german-researcher-doub...
By P Gosselin on 19. November 2024
Just in time for COP30 in Belem, Brazil, we have fresh confirmation, cooling temperatures are resultingin lower than expected levels of atmospheric CO2
So, the whole wind, solar, battery frenzy and Net-Zero to reduced CO2 by 2050 are
impossibly expensive hoaxes that are based on proprietary IPCC “science”..
https://willempost.substack.com/p/just-in-time-for-cop30-in-belem-b...
https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/31006002892?pro...
You can click on the red text to see a large image.
Note, Spain was already in decline during 1550 and after.
The death blow came in 1588, the destruction of the Armada, which used up almost all 100-y-old trees in Spain.
This chart shows, for the past 5000 years, the output of the sun has varied, which caused the rise and fall of empire, nations and city states.
What is happening in Maine regarding the Media takeover, by Soros, etc., has already taken place in Russia. The mainers who are co-operating with these heinous folks essentially are self-serving traitors
Soros, Berezovsky, Gudinski, and a few other oligarchs, bought almost all of the Media in Russia to brainwash the Russian people, during the turbulent, chaotic Gorbachev/Yeltsin era of the 1990s. Their objective was to take over the Presidency of Russia and its natural resources and sell those resources to the West. Yeltsin prevented this by selecting Putin as his acting Prime Minister on August 9, 1999 (confirmed on 16 August, 1999).
Yeltsin resigned at the end of 1999, and appointed Putin as acting President, because Putin was neither a Communist, nor in league with the Oligarchs. He told Putin “You must save Russia”. Putin, a true Patriot, was overwhelmingly elected President in March 2000.
One of his first acts was to tell all oligarchs they could keep their $billions, but had to stay out politics. In a meeting, he made 18 of them sign a document. It was recorded on a video. Then the oligarchs began to slime Putin using their Media, even trying to kill him several times, but the People retaliated by overwhelmingly supporting Putin for decades.
After Putin became President, Russia, in existential mode, did not cave, but like a Phoenix, rose from the 1990s ashes, much to the dismay of the hubristic, Russophobic, neo-cons in the West, such as mouthpiece McCain, who had disdainfully portrayed Russia as a “gas station”.
The Perverse Ways Your Tax Dollars Fund the Left’s Dark Money Network
How Leftist Nonprofit Networks Exploit Federal Tax Dollars to Advance a Radical Agenda
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118494/witnesses/HHRG-11...
U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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"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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