This searchable database includes all itemized individual donations of $200 or more (or additional donations by individuals who have exceeded $200 for the election) as well as PAC contributions to the 2020 U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Betsy Sweet of Hallowell. The database covers the period from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2019. Other candidates […]
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Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Mike Bloomberg campaigns in Maine with eye toward Super Tuesday primaries
The businessman and former New York City mayor says he is focusing on making the case against Donald Trump rather than defeating other contenders for the Democratic nomination.
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Posted inElections, Nation & World, News, Politics
Collins says she raised concerns about Senate decorum just before chief justice admonished legal teams
The exchange came early Wednesday after House impeachment managers and President Trump’s lawyers traded accusations and insinuations on the Senate floor.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Times Record
Bill pending in Maine to make producers pay for disposal of packaging
Maine is drafting a first-in-the-nation law to shift the cost of disposing of packaging materials from consumers to private companies.
Posted inMaine, Morning Sentinel, Politics, Schools and Education
Bill to expand access to child care unveiled in Waterville
“You can’t have a strong economy in Maine without strong child care for the people in it,” said Senate President Troy Jackson, a Democrat from Aroostook County.
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Panel recommends nearly doubling Maine governor’s ‘embarrassingly low’ salary
Maine’s governor, judges and lawmakers are paid less than their peers in nearly every other state, and the State Compensation Commission said that could keep people out of public service.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Blaine House solar project a powerful symbol – and debatable economic investment
Complications lowered by half how much energy would be offset and tripled the payback period.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Op-Eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Grassroots effort brings people together to talk – and listen – across the political divide
Make Shift Coffee House, honored last week with a national civics award, promotes mutual respect over partisan animosity.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Is Sen. Collins running in 2020? Not yet, officially, but you’d never know it.
Maine’s Republican senator, seen by Democrats as someone they can unseat, is widely expected to seek another term but keeps saying she will decide ‘in the fall.’
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Money from away piles up in U.S. Senate race
The most recent campaign finance reports show that out-of-state donors made the vast majority of contributions of $200 or more to the campaigns of Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon.