State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin listed seven private sources of income — including his two businesses — on a 2011 annual financial disclosure report filed earlier this month.

AUGUSTA — City councilors and school officials struggled Monday with how to adequately fund the education of the city’s youth while not taxing its elderly out of their homes, all while state and federal revenue continues to decline.

Fewer candidates for the Maine Legislature are running publicly financed campaigns this year under the state’s newly amended, and less generous, Clean Election Act.

The Republican nominee hoping to succeed U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is not assured to receive most, or any, of the outgoing senator’s campaign war chest.

PORTLAND — The estate of a Westbrook man who died after he was punched in the face and hit his head on the bricks of Monument Square is suing his attacker and the bar the attacker patronized before their brief encounter.