Sign In:


Latest
  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    Gov. LePage holding off six bills until January

    AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is holding six bills until the Legislature returns in January, including one that would set up rules for casinos.

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    MSHA charge for information called excessive

    AUGUSTA — A conservative think tank says the Maine State Housing Authority wants to charge too much money to release basic financial information for a public website disclosing the cost of government.

  • Published
    July 13, 2011

    LePage holds 6 bills; has questions about all

    AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage is holding six bills until the Legislature returns in January, including one that would set up rules for casinos.

  • Published
    July 11, 2011

    AG says Thomaston land deal void

    In a letter dated Friday, Schneider writes that the sale of 5.2 acres in Thomaston to Warden Patricia Barnhart “is void” because it violates state law that prohibits state officials from having a financial interest in “any contracts made on behalf of the state.”

  • Published
    July 11, 2011

    ON MAINE POLITICS: LePage discusses abuse

    AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage tackled the difficult subject of domestic violence in a recent weekly radio address, asking men to step up to make “this behavior socially unacceptable.”

  • Published
    July 10, 2011

    Bill for road work has some worried

    AUGUSTA — Reduced state spending for road and bridge improvements in the next two years is raising concerns about needed upkeep and higher costs in the future.

  • Published
    July 10, 2011

    Road group urges more spending

    AUGUSTA — Reduced state spending for road and bridge improvements in the next two years is raising concerns about needed upkeep and higher costs in the future.

  • Published
    July 7, 2011

    Same-day registration ballot wording released

    AUGUSTA — Secretary of State Charlie Summers released the wording Wednesday for a people’s veto ballot question, marking the unofficial start of a campaign to repeal a law passed last month to end same-day voter registration in Maine.

  • Published
    July 3, 2011

    Republicans make their presence felt in Augusta

    AUGUSTA — With Republicans in charge at the State House for the first time in decades, there was a different approach to policy making in the legislative session that ended Wednesday, on issues ranging from the budget to health insurance to charter schools and same-day voter registration.

  • Published
    July 3, 2011

    GOP majority leaves its mark on session

    AUGUSTA — With Republicans in charge at the State House for the first time in decades, there was a different approach to policy making in the legislative session that ended Wednesday, on issues ranging from the budget to health insurance to charter schools and same-day voter registration.