Lawmakers found themselves in an unusual position this year – having to decide what to do with a projected surplus of $1.2 billion.
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In convention speech, LePage seeks to tie Mills to pandemic, Biden
The former governor, running for a third, non-consecutive term, spoke for 35 minutes at the Republican Convention on Saturday.
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Maine Republicans adopt platform to ban sexually based material, transgender identity in schools
The Maine Republican Party kicked off its two-day convention in Augusta by also rejecting an effort to remove the party’s one woman-one man definition of marriage.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Russia releases U.S. Marine veteran as part of prisoner exchange
The U.S. returned Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot who’d been serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in Connecticut for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the U.S.
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn
Margaret Craven seeks another term in state House
LEWISTON — Voters will decide in November whether to return Democratic state Rep. Margaret Craven of Lewiston to Augusta to represent House District 93. Craven, who has represented the area as its senator and state representative for a number of terms, won election to the seat in 2019 after having had taken several years off […]
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Sen. Collins says she’d support reinstatement of Trump’s Twitter account
Collins’ comments come a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who describes himself as a ‘free-speech absolutist,’ reached an agreement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Supreme Court could free Biden to end Trump asylum border policy
The heart of the fight is whether, with far less detention capacity than needed, immigration authorities must send people to Mexico or have the discretion to release asylum-seekers into the United States while they await their hearings.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
U.S. presses allies to send more weapons to Ukraine over fear of an expanding war
Russian advances and heavy fighting were reported in the Donbas, with one town, Kreminna, apparently falling, while in the gutted southern city of Mariupol, Russia hit the Azovstal steel plant with 35 airstrikes over 24 hours.
Posted inHealth, Maine, Politics
New Maine law aims to prevent harassment at abortion clinics
Maine is now 1 of 4 states with a law that creates a ‘bubble zone’ that limits protests nears the doors of a medical clinic.
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Greene, in text to Meadows, raised topic of martial law to keep Trump in power
News of the messages comes days after she testified in a separate case that she could not recall whether she had advocated for martial law.