The estimate by the Congressional Budget Office will fuel new debate over President Biden’s student debt decision, which was cheered by advocates but assailed by Republican lawmakers as a waste of government money.
Politics
Political news and information from the Sun Journal.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State, Politics
Sen. King co-sponsors bill to protect election workers
The federal bill comes at the urging of 15 secretaries of state, including Maine’s Shenna Bellows, and would provide states with additional resources to recruit, train, retain and protect election workers, while creating federal safeguards to shield election workers from intimidation and threats.
advertisement
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn, Politics
Watch: 2nd Congressional District race Q&A interview
Because only independent Tiffany Bond agreed to debate, Maine Public will conduct a Q&A with her.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State
Pair of Portland referendums offer competing proposals for regulating short-term rentals
Question A seeks to ban corporate and non-local operators from registering short-term rentals, while Question B would reduce the number of short-term rentals and increase fines and fees.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation / World, News, Politics
LePage team rebuts report that he enjoyed Florida property tax breaks while living in Maine
An adviser to the former Maine governor says the properties in question were both owned only by his wife, Ann LePage.
Posted inElection 2022, Local & State, Politics
Republicans attack Mills administration for anti-racism lesson plan
A video posted to the Department of Education website and available to high school teachers includes MAGA and “all lives matter” as examples of covert racism.
Posted inElection 2022
Rachel Henderson, Maine House 78 candidate
House District 78 serves towns in Oxford County — Bethel, Byron, Hanover, Milton, Roxbury and Rumford.
Posted inElection 2022, Legislative Candidates
David ‘Fuzzy’ Thurston, Maine House 78 candidate
House District 78 serves towns in Oxford County — Bethel, Byron, Hanover, Milton, Roxbury and Rumford.
Posted inElection 2022, Nation / World, News, Politics
Trump allies create a new super PAC called MAGA Inc.
The buildout comes as Trump, a Republican, is under mounting legal pressure on multiple fronts.
Posted inElection 2022
Caleb Ness, Maine House 82 candidate
House District 82 serves towns in Oxford County — Brownfield, Fryeburg, Hiram, Lovell and Porter.