Legislation advances allowing schools to continue serving potatoes without restrictions as part of federal school lunches and breakfasts.

Maine’s senator tells the Treasury Secretary that ‘Rome is burning’ while the Obama Administration fiddles with the economy.

A Senate vote is due later this week on a measure aiming to prevent the USDA from limiting potatoes in the federal school lunch program.

Scott D’Amboise, the tea party-affiliated small business owner from Lisbon, has just a fraction of Snowe’s $3.2 million on hand.

The Portland Democrat signals that he’s nearing an official decision to challenge Snowe for the U.S. Senate in 2012.

The provision authored by Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd, affects the reimbursement rates paid to state veterans’ homes.

WASHINGTON — Maine’s 2012 U.S. Senate race isn’t much of a fundraising contest so far. Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe had more than $3.2 million as of Sept. 30, according to the report that her campaign is filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Her two GOP challengers, Scott D’Amboise and Andrew Ian Dodge, have yet to file financial reports for the third quarter.

Two Maine Democrats are lobbying the Obama administration to change a federal emergency food and shelter program funding formula that they say has produced disproportionately large cuts for Maine because it discriminates against heavily rural states.