PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor has settled with the ACLU over a lawsuit that charged his Facebook page was blocking the governor’s critics. The operators of Gov. Paul LePage’s Facebook page agreed to unblock certain critics in a settlement reached Friday. LePage doesn’t admit to the lawsuit’s claims he was censoring critics in […]
AUGUST, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Republican governor says court-ordered Medicaid expansion would “prompt a fiscal crisis” in his latest challenge against rolling out the voter-approved law. Gov. Paul LePage on Monday requested a stay of Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy’s Nov. 21 decision. The judge said LePage’s administration has until Dec. 5 to adopt rules […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Democratic winner in a Maine congressional race says Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin is within his right to request a recount. But Jared Golden also says that “dragging this process out only hurts the people we were elected to serve.” Golden issued a statement Monday evening, hours after Poliquin requested a […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Democratic Party Chairman Phil Bartlett and Vice Chairwoman Peggy Schaffer won’t be seeking re-election to their posts. Bartlett and Schaffer, who announced their decisions Sunday, are going out on a high note. Democrat Janet Mills won the gubernatorial race, Democrat Jared Golden flipped a GOP congressional seat thanks to ranked-choice […]
MACHIASPORT, Maine (AP) — Maine’s rebuilt fishery for scallops is getting started for the winter in the coming days. Many in the state’s seafood industry consider Maine scallops a conservation success story, as harvest hit a 20-year high last year after bottoming out in the mid-2000s. Most of the scallops are harvested by boat, though […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Democratic Gov.-elect Janet Mills says her transition team is considering who will serve in her cabinet. Mills has appointed her campaign manager, Jeremy Kennedy, as chief of staff. Kennedy has worked for Planned Parenthood Northern New England and he wants to lower health care costs and improve public education. Kennedy […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine House Republicans and Democrats are picking their new legislative leaders as Democrats gain control over the state Legislature. An official vote will be taken by the entire House on Dec. 5, swearing-in day. House Republicans on Wednesday selected Rep. Kathleen Dillingham as House GOP leader and Rep. Trey Stewart as […]
OAKLAND, Maine (AP) — The state fire marshal’s office in Maine says a man died in a camper fire that may have been caused by a propane heater. Investigators in Oakland say they believe the victim is 46-year-old William Halley, who lived alone in the camper. It was parked in a friend’s driveway. The body […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and three other voters are suing over Maine’s new voting system used for the first time in U.S. House and Senate elections. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court. It seeks a preliminary injunction, and a lawyer for Poliquin’s campaign asked to stop the process […]
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — The tribal ambassador from the Penobscot Nation is appealing a request to the Skowhegan school district to retire the nickname “Indians” for the district’s high school teams. Maulian Dana delivered the formal appeal Nov. 1 to the Skowhegan-based School Administrative District 54. The Morning Sentinel reports the school board voted to […]
