Igor Fruman admitted to soliciting a million dollars from a Russian entrepreneur to donate to Republicans in Nevada, Florida and other states as part of an effort to launch a recreational marijuana business.
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Posted inHealth, Local & State, News, Politics
Committee votes down moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine mandates
The Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee votes 7-5 against a bill that originally aimed to prohibit COVID-19 vaccination mandates for five years.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Committee’s party-line endorsement of equal rights amendment makes passage appear doubtful
Unified opposition by the Judiciary Committee’s five Republican members is a bad sign for supporters because the proposal needs votes from two-thirds of the Legislature to advance.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation / World, News, Politics
Collins helps block voting rights bill as King says U.S. democracy could collapse without it
Maine’s senators took starkly opposed positions in a fiery late-night debate and vote Wednesday.
Posted inElection 2020, Nation / World, Politics
As Giuliani coordinated plan for Trump electoral votes in states Biden won, some electors balked
One elector who refused to participate in the plan, which has became a focus of the House Jan. 6 committee, said he was “not going to jump on a bandwagon to say that I know better than the courts.”
Posted inElections, Franklin, Livermore Falls Advertiser, News
Nomination papers ready for town, school and water district offices
A total of six positions are up for election April 26.
Posted inNation / World, News, Politics
Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee to get Trump documents
The documents include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts, and handwritten notes on Jan. 6 from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Biden says nation weary from COVID but touts progress in year in office
In a press conference the president claims to have ‘probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen’ in a country still coping with the coronavirus.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation / World, Politics
With voting rights bill doomed, King and Collins work to safeguard electoral vote counting
Legal experts say ambiguities in the 1887 Electoral Count Act need correcting to prevent future attempts to overturn presidential elections.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Voting bill collapses, with Democrats unable to change filibuster rules
The rules change meant to allow Democrats to approve the bill with a simple majority was also headed toward defeat, with Biden unable to persuade two holdout senators in his own party.