Legislative leaders approved 49 appeals of bills Thursday, including five addressing the drug problem.
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Court master finds insufficient staffing, care at Maine psychiatric hospital
The problems identified in the report are numerous and some intersect deficiencies that led federal government to decertify hospital.
LePage reiterates ultimatum for more drug enforcement agents
The governor says the Legislature has until Dec. 10 to provide funding or he’ll call up the Maine National Guard.
LePage officials deny threatening funding cut if Good Will-Hinckley hired Mark Eves
Those accounts don’t square with Good Will-Hinckley officials’ testimony to the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee.
Showdown in Eves case arrives Thursday as governor’s aides testify
With a lawyer at their side, they’ll be among the nine witnesses as legislators pursue more facts about the governor’s intervention in the Good Will-Hinckley hiring process.
LePage requests more drug agents, repeats vow to call up National Guard
The governor makes an unexpected appearance before the Legislature’s budget committee to deliver his request in person.
LePage officials subpoenaed in Good Will-Hinckley affair expected to appear before legislative panel
The Government Oversight Committee will hear testimony from nine people involved in the controversy over the governor’s intervention in the private school’s hiring of House Speaker Mark Eves.
Polling place videotaping in Maine a new front in policy wars
A legislator may seek to regulate the rarely seen practice, which left petition signers and circulators feeling intimidated Tuesday.
Without a majority vote, Lewiston’s mayoral race goes to a runoff
Challenger Ben Chin and Mayor Robert Macdonald finish first and second, respectively, in a field of five candidates, but neither one gets more than 50 percent of the vote.
Land for Maine’s Future supporters take LePage fight to sportsmen
The Land for Maine’s Future Coalition hopes to tap the key constituency in an effort to pressure governor to release voter-approved bonds.