The governor plans to review all easement deals before funding them.
Steve Mistler
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Legislators worry LePage about to put public lands in pro-harvesting hands
Many believe he’s planning to have the same director for the forest service and the parks bureau, two agencies with different missions.
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LePage: I didn’t say Stephen King doesn’t pay taxes, so no apology
The governor unexpectedly drops in at a legislator budget briefing in Cumberland, denies he slighted the best selling author and Bangor resident.
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Maine senator who linked Obama with Islamic State resigns committee post
Sen. Michael Willette has been under fire since a March 1 Facebook post in which he said Obama would deal with the terrorist group at ‘the family reunion.’
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Former Maine CDC director Sheila Pinette leaving new state assignment
Pinette, who was reassigned as chief health officer at the human services department in February, will remain as a contract epidemiologist.
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Hacker disables maine.gov website for hours
The New Hampshire government website also is disrupted Monday morning, and the two states top a 50-state hit list posted by a hacker who claims to be Russian via Twitter.
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Stephen King to LePage: ‘Man up and apologize’
The author is clearly not satisfied after the governor’s radio address suggested he doesn’t pay state taxes.
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Portland NAACP leader calls for sanctions against lawmaker over Obama post
Rachel Talbot Ross says state Senate leadership hasn’t done enough to address a Facebook post by Sen. Michael Willette of Presque Isle that called the president kin of the Islamic State.
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Stephen King calls out LePage on erroneous tax statements
The governor’s office deleted a reference to the author, who has said the taxes of the rich like himself should be increased.
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Top House Republican says he’d work to restore $38 million to Efficiency Maine
Rep. Kenneth Fredette, a leading advocate for a 2013 energy law, agrees that a drafting error likely led to the PUC vote to cut funding and calls criticism of the agency unfair.