Don Lauzier realized that something had to be done several years ago, when his father died and he had to decide what to do with unused medication.

The Legislature still has to take up General Assistance spending in wake of line-item veto

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.

The court-mandated elimination of matching money makes Clean Election financing less appealing to some.

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.

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.

If campaign cash was votes — and there’s often a strong correlation between the two — the presidential race in Maine could be considered just about over.

Women such as Nancy Ciocca of South Portland may well decide who will be Maine’s next U.S. senator. You don’t have to be a political scientist to understand the power of female voters. Just listen to the presidential campaigns arguing almost daily over who really cares more about women. The national campaign rhetoric about a […]