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Local, statewide and national political news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, News, Politics
Question 1 would cap contributions to certain political action committees
Voters will be asked if they want to limit PAC contributions to $5,000. The measure is likely to be challenged in court if it passes.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Politics
Maine legislative committee backs Gov. Mills’ nominee for health commissioner
The Health and Human Services Committee votes 10-2 in favor of Sara Gagné-Holmes’ nomination, which now goes to the full Senate.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Sens. Collins, King co-sponsor bill requiring military to use state crisis intervention laws
The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine’s yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state’s deadliest mass shooting.
Posted inBusiness, Election 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Housing’s worst crisis in decades reverberates through 2024 race
At stake in the next two months are the votes of frustrated homebuyers and renters in battleground states.
Posted inMaine, Politics
State commission responding to storm damage explores public flood insurance
Only 1.3% of all homes and buildings in Maine are covered under the National Flood Insurance Program and participation has fallen sharply over the past 15 years.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, News, Politics
Trump subject of second apparent assassination attempt at Florida golf club
The man arrested in connection with the shooting is named Ryan Wesley Routh, law enforcement officials said.
Posted inElection 2024, Maine, Politics
Gwen Walz tells supporters in Portland to ‘choose a new way forward’
Walz spoke at a rally at Thompson’s Point Friday night after stops in Bangor as part of a blitz by the Harris-Walz campaign on the heels of the presidential debate.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics, Religion and Values
Pope slams Harris and Trump as ‘against life’ and urges Catholics to vote for ‘lesser evil’
Pope Francis highlights what he calls the presidential candidates’ anti-life policies on abortion and migration.
Posted inElection 2024, Nation & World, Politics
Trump says there will be no future debate with Harris
The Republican nominee posted Thursday on Truth Social that ‘THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!’ He also suggested that a ‘prizefighter’ who loses a bout is always the one to call for a rematch.