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Published
March 11, 2020

Lawmakers urged to borrow funds for roads and high-speed internet

The bill, which would also need voter approval, would funnel $90 million to the state's highway fund and $15 million towards the expansion of high-speed internet for parts of rural Maine.
Published
March 11, 2020

Sanders not dropping out, but where does he go from here?

The Vermont senator offers no details on what his campaign may look like before or after he and Joe Biden debate Sunday night in Arizona.
Published
March 10, 2020

Biden wins key Michigan primary — and 3 other states — delivering major blow to Sanders

Former Vice President Joe Biden also took Missouri and Mississippi and Idaho on Tuesday.
Published
March 10, 2020

Maine Senate approves bill to add liquefied propane to Dig Safe law

The measure is the result of a deadly explosion in Farmington last year.
Published
March 10, 2020

Maine Ethics Commission votes 2-1 to investigate power line opponent

The commission's decision follows a complaint from a political action committee backing Central Maine Power's proposed $1 billion transmission line through western Maine's mountains.
Published
March 9, 2020

Huge primary turnout seen as a sign of energized Democrats

In Maine, where Joe Biden narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders, over 200,000 registered Democrats voted Tuesday, or about 58 percent.
Published
March 7, 2020

With Trump their only choice, more Maine Republicans than usual left ballots blank

An analysis of Tuesday's voting in the state's largest towns shows that 1 in 5 of the party's primary voters left the president's oval blank or wrote in another name.
Published
March 6, 2020

Nazi flag display at Sanders rally sparks broad condemnation

Images of a flag depicting the swastika symbol that was briefly displayed at the candidate's rally Thursday night in Phoenix began circulating online after the incident.
Published
March 6, 2020

Inside the dizzying 3 days that remade the Democratic primary

The win of former Vice President Joe Biden in the South Carolina Democratic primary set off a cascade of events that carried him to a consolidation of support for Super Tuesday.
Published
March 5, 2020

CMP private investigator tailed anti-corridor petitioners

Opponents of a proposed transmission line accuse a PAC funded by the utility of conducting an 'outrageous intimidation campaign,' but Clean Energy Matters contends that petition-drive workers violated state law.