Never one to stop serving, the former Maine representative with deep ties to East Millinocket looks to help rebulid the mill town.
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Maine’s Gov.-elect, Janet Mills, invites public to inauguration
The Jan. 2 event is free and open to all but requires tickets.
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Shutdown not expected to cause major disruptions in Maine
But services have been curtailed at Acadia National Park, where about 70 staff members are on furlough.
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Government Shutdown: What federal employees are essential?
WASHINGTON — At midnight Saturday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown, suspending funding for many agencies. This will complicate many lives – those of federal workers and the millions of Americans who rely on them. Here are the answers to questions you might have about how the shutdown could affect you or your neighbor. […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg undergoes cancer surgery
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has 2 malignant growths removed from a lung, the court announces.
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Partial government shutdown begins over Trump’s $5.7 billion demand for border wall
Funding for many federal agencies runs out as a bipartisan spending deal is scuttled by the showdown over funding for 215 miles of wall on the Mexico border.
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To lead Department of Labor, Mills picks someone who’s done it before
In addition to announcing Laura Fortman’s nomination to be Maine’s labor commissioner, Gov.-elect Janet Mills nominates John Rohde to lead the Workers’ Compensation Board.
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Collins tells Fox News about threats and harassment during Kavanaugh hearings
Maine’s Republican senator said ‘it was unlike anything I’ve ever seen in all the years that I have been privileged to serve in the Senate.’
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Defense secretary says he’s leaving, a day after Trump says troops will leave Syria
Jim Mattis says in his resignation letter that the president deserves a defense secretary who is ‘better aligned’ with his views.
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LePage repeats discredited claim that most drug dealers in Maine are minorities
The governor first made such a claim in 2016, but it was disproved by a Press Herald analysis of the governor’s three-ring binder of drug arrest press releases.