Even as incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud resisted campaigning today during a shoe factory tour in Norridgewock with a trade ambassador, challenger Kevin Raye went on the attack as he visited a farm in Clinton.
September 2012
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In debate, Maine candidates differ on energy issues
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Summers said during a debate Thursday that he doesn’t believe humans are the primary cause of climate change.
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VIDEO: Angus King airs ‘Godzilla’ ad
Angus King’s campaign has released this ad in which King tells viewers “that some folks from away” are spending big money to make him look like a monster.
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Trade rep to New Balance workers: No rush to change footwear tariffs
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk promised workers at the New Balance shoe factory this morning that he was not going to rush into changes on footwear import tariffs.
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Snowe: Heating money to stay at last year’s level
The funding package that will provide heating assistance to states is making its way through Congress.
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Feds declare New England groundfish industry a ‘disaster’
The move paves the way for Congress to appropriate as much as $100 million to help fishermen, which Maine’s Congressional delegation had been pushing for.
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Senate candidates support Obama on Libya attacks
Two of the three also rebuke Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his criticism of the president’s response before the extent of the attack was clear.
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US identifies anti-Muslim filmmaker
WASHINGTON — A U.S. law enforcement official says a man named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is behind the anti-Muslim film being blamed for mob attacks in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. A man who calls himself Sam Bacile has said he created the film, but The Associated Press on Wednesday connected Nakoula to the Bacile persona. The […]
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Sweden: Thief robs unconscious man on subway tracks
The victim was run over by a train soon after the robbery.
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Nation says goodbye to moonwalker Neil Armstrong
WASHINGTON — The nation is bidding farewell to Neil Armstrong, the first man to take a giant leap on to the moon. The powerful of Washington, the pioneers of space, and the everyday public crowded into the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday for a public interfaith memorial for the very private astronaut. Armstrong, who died […]