Vermont voters choose Democratic House member for U.S. Senate run

2022 elections

Published
August 9, 2022

Vermont voters choose Democratic House member for U.S. Senate run

Incumbent Republican Gov. Phil Scott also cruised to his party's primary victory, defeating two candidates as he seeks a fourth term.
Published
August 8, 2022

Maine begins accepting absentee ballot requests for November election

Requests can be submitted now but actual ballots won't be mailed back until October.
Published
August 2, 2022

Primary takeaways: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens’ collapse

Voters rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion rights in red-state Kansas and repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri.
Published
July 3, 2022

LePage takes new tack in old quest to eliminate income taxes

The former Republican governor now says he would eliminate them from the bottom up, and may not need to increase increase sales taxes to pay for it – a claim some experts question.
Published
June 29, 2022

Commentary: Gov. Mills is from Venus, former Gov. LePage is from Mars

The candidates in November's gubernatorial election are both Mainers, but they might as well come from different planets.
Published
June 28, 2022

LePage: ‘I don’t have time for abortion’

Former Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican who has said he opposes abortion, said he would not try to overturn or restrict the right to abortion in Maine, but refused to promise that he wouldn't sign an anti-abortion bill if he becomes governor again.
Published
June 15, 2022

Big win in state Senate special election buoys Democrats

But Republicans dismissed the defeat as a 'low stakes' race that in no way indicates what will happen in November when both candidates face off again with former Republican Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic Gov. Janet Mills at the top of the ticket.
Published
June 14, 2022

Light turnout reported as voters across Maine head for the polls to decide key races

Polling places will close at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Watch centralmaine.com for updated election results starting Tuesday evening.
Published
June 3, 2022

Pennsylvania Republicans opposed counting undated ballots, until now

When Philadelphia’s election board prepared to count ballots last year that were mailed-in without the voter’s handwritten date, Republicans threatened impeachment.
Published
May 20, 2022

Teacher defends LGBT kindergarten lesson featured in anti-Mills ad

The kindergarten teacher is disappointed that Gov. Mills and the state Department of Education responded to criticism by removing her video lesson from the state's website.