Maine’s struggling hemp industry would benefit from relaxed rules on potency limits.
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U.S. warns midterms could spark calls for extremist violence
The Department of Homeland Security warns that Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud may be used to fuel unrest during the upcoming midterm elections.
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Plan approved to extend mental health support to Maine responders
The rule is currently on the books but is due to end in October.
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Gov. Mills unveils $8 million plan to improve child protection in Maine
The plan would strengthen the office of the Child Welfare Ombudsman and add child protection caseworkers to cover weekends, nights and holidays, among other initiatives.
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National Archives had to retrieve Trump’s White House records from Mar-a-Lago
The recovery of the boxes raises new concerns about his adherence to the Presidential Records Act.
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The day the dirty trickster apologized to Muskie
Twenty-one months after the Canuck letter came out, Nixon campaign operative Donald Segretti sent Muskie an apology. The Muskie Archives has it at Bates College in Lewiston. “Dear Senator Muskie,” the by-then convicted dirty trickster wrote on Oct. 11, 1973, “I wish to personally apologize to you, your family and your staff for my activities […]
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Maine’s Edmund Muskie: ‘Good-humored’ but with a ‘temper that verged on the volcanic’
Known for his environmental legacy, Muskie, according to then-Sen. Joe Biden, ‘never believed that a career in politics obliged his head to divorce his heart.’
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How Mainer Edmund Muskie’s tirade a half-century ago may have cost him the White House
One of the most successful dirty tricks in American political history wiped away the presidential hopes of Rumford’s favorite son in 1972.
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Pence says Trump was ‘wrong’ in saying vice president could overturn election
The former vice president addressed Donald Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that Pence could have done something to prevent Joe Biden from taking office.
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Republican National Committee condemns Cheney, Kinzinger for serving on Jan. 6 panel
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the two Republican House members persecuted members of the pro-Trump mob who, she said, ‘engaged in legitimate political discourse.’