Scott Thistle is the State House reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He has covered politics and government in Maine since 2006. Prior to that he served as the State House reporter for the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth, Minnesota. A Maine native, Thistle has worked in journalism since 1990, when he got his start at a weekly newspaper in rural Oxford County, Maine. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and an active volunteer with the National Ski Patrol. He resides with his wife, Amy and his two sons Finn and Kai, in Auburn, Maine.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2020
Republicans fault Gov. Mills’ budget for lack of transportation funding
A group of Republican lawmakers said they will present a plan next week to funnel as much as $200 million a year from the state’s General Fund to the transportation department for highway and bridge construction and repair.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2020
Maine Senate votes to override Gov. Mills’ veto of sports betting bill
The state Senate voted 20-10 to override, and the measure will go next to the House for consideration, possibly next week.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2020
Maine Republicans seek to repeal ranked-choice voting in presidential elections
A petition drive announced Tuesday aims to put the question to the state’s voters in November.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2020
Mills calls for more caseworkers, troopers in $127 million supplemental budget
The governor is asking lawmakers to fund more child protection caseworkers, broadband expansion and increased aid for education, all priorities she highlighted in her State of the State address in January.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2020
Citing coronavirus, Mills urges voters to uphold Maine’s new vaccine law
Maine’s governor uses her weekly radio address to attack a citizens’ veto effort that would overturn the state’s new law to eliminate non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccines.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2020
Maine lawmakers take up bill to ban ‘deepfake’ political ads
Supporters say the measure would protect election integrity and prevent deception of voters, but some lawmakers raised free speech concerns.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2020
Democrats renew push for broadband expansion with $15 million proposal
Lawmakers rejected a borrowing plan for broadband investment last year, but a new bill would tap into the state’s General Fund to support a plan developed by the ConnectME Authority.
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2020
Maine joins federal lawsuit concerning 3-D printed guns
The Maine Attorney General’s Office has joined 19 other states in challenging the Trump administration’s decision to allow the firearms to be regulated by the Department of Commerce rather than the State Department.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2020
Despite efforts to stem epidemic, Maine overdose deaths appear to be on rise again after 1-year dip
The Medical Examiner’s Office says 277 Mainers died from drug overdoses in the first 9 months of 2019, putting the state on track to surpass the total for 2018.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2020
House upholds veto of bill to let candidates put their nicknames on ballot
Rep. ‘Billy Bob’ Faulkingham, the bill’s sponsor, says many voters in his district wouldn’t recognize his given name.
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