The most expensive referendum in Maine history is part of a growing trend in big spending, which doesn’t always yield winning outcomes.
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Golden helps delay Friday vote on $1.75 trillion Build Back Better plan
The vote was scuttled after Golden and several colleagues insisted on several weeks’ delay until analysis of the plan’s budgetary impact can be completed.
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Democrats end deadlock, House sends $1 trillion infrastructure bill to Biden
Under the deal, progressives end their roadblock of the package of road, water and other projects while moderates will back the president’s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better plan later this month if official estimates of its cost are in line with expectations.
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Biden’s big bill on brink of House votes, but talks drag on
The chamber prepared for votes now likely on Friday, and White House officials worked the phones to lock in support for the president’s signature proposal.
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Brandon Mazer wins Portland at-large council seat in drawing of lots
Roberto Rodriguez, the losing candidate, immediately said he would ask for a vote recount.
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Maine’s passage of ‘right to food’ amendment stirs celebration, worry
While supporters are pleased, opponents fear the nation’s first constitutional amendment for food rights will lead to legal battles.
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More than 400,000 Mainers voted in statewide referendums and local races
While official results are not yet available, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said Maine had strong voter turnout, and absentee ballot use, for an off-year, referendum-only election.
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Boston elects first woman and Asian American as mayor
Michelle Wu’s victory marks a turning point for the city, which had chosen only white men as mayor before her.
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After Republicans’ win in Virginia, Democrats fear implications for 2022
Democrats saw the race for Virginia’s governor as a test of whether they could turn out voters when their chief nemesis, Donald Trump, was not on the ballot.
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Database: Town-by-town vote counts for the ‘right to food’ amendment
The statewide referendum asked voters if they favored an amendment to the Maine Constitution “to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being.”