AUGUSTA — A conservative think tank says Gov. Paul LePage’s two-year budget contains a “subtle tax increase” that could be “detrimental to Maine’s taxpayers.”
Steve Mistler
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LePage’s budget has ‘subtle’ tax hike
Analysts also criticize his plan to suspend municipal revenue sharing for two years.
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Analysis: LePage’s speech geared for 2014 re-election bid
The Republican governor rehashes his successful talking points of the 2010 campaign.
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Maine AG wants hospitals to allow public into meetings
The boards of those that rely mostly on taxpayer funding should be more open to scrutiny, the attorney general says.
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LePage finally meets with top Democrats
The leaders discuss various issues in a session long delayed by a dispute over ‘tracking’ of the governor.
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Content of Tuesday’s State of the State address known only to LePage
With the exception of Gov. Paul LePage and his confidants, nobody knows what the governor will say when he delivers his State of the State address Tuesday night.
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Politicians strive to stay in hospitals’ good graces
But the partisan tension over who gets credit for paying the state’s debt to medical institutions reveals that industry’s outsized clout.
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LePage administration retreats from Brunswick tax dispute
At issue is whether Kestrel Aeroworks, a tenant at the former naval air station, should have to pay property taxes.
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LePage may have new tactic to get cuts
At a glance, it would appear that Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to double-down on his $6.2 billion two-year budget proposal. Or was it a double-dare? There seems to be widespread belief among Republicans and Democrats that the governor’s proposal to save more than $200 million by suspending municipal aid for two […]
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Municipal aid budget cut looks unlikely
At a glance, it would appear that Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to double-down on his $6.2 billion, two-year budget proposal.