A Mainer who lived there as a Fulbright Scholar advises waiting until the departure of the dictatorship’s president, who is violently suppressing widespread protests.
Sen. Susan Collins
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Ads charging Gideon with taking corporate money are factual, but distorted
The National Republican Senatorial Committee ad levels a charge of hypocrisy that supporters of Republican Sen. Susan Collins have returned to repeatedly.
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Our View: Sen. Collins, fellow Republicans need to get serious on COVID bill
Since Republican senators have developed no relief plan, they need to craft legislation that can attract enough Democratic votes to pass.
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Democrats maintain large lead in voter registration in Maine
Both major parties have their highest enrollments in at least 30 years, but Democrats are gaining members at a faster clip, driven in part by recent presidential and U.S. Senate primary elections.
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Maine senators have sharply different takes on Trump’s executive actions
Sen. Susan Collins criticizes congressional Democrats for blocking the extension of unemployment benefits, while Sen. Angus King says the president has moved the country closer to an ‘elected monarchy.’
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The Maine Millennial: Teetering on the unemployment cliff
What’s keeping workers at home? It’s not a $600 weekly payment – it’s the coronavirus.
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How Sen. Collins was lobbied to write the PPP exception that benefited hotel chains
The lobbyist who pushed for the change is a former longtime aide to the Maine senator.
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New poll shows Gideon with slight lead in U.S. Senate race
Quinnipiac University’s survey of 807 registered Maine voters finds Republican Sen. Susan Collins trailing the Democratic House speaker by 4 points.
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Mike Thibodeau: Independent-minded and bipartisan, Sen. Collins is nobody’s ‘stooge’
Mainers deserve an honest and fair campaign without the falsehoods being pushed on us from people from away.
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BIW could benefit from coronavirus relief bill
$250 million of the $1 trillion HEALS Act is designated for the “surface combatant supplier base program,” which could benefit BIW and its suppliers.