Former Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers and former lawmakers seeking to open Maine’s party primaries to unenrolled voters.
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Is Susan Collins running in 2020? Not yet, officially, but you’d never know it.
Maine’s Republican senator, seen by Democrats as someone they can unseat, is widely expected to seek another term but keeps saying she will decide ‘in the fall.’
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Lewiston High grads credit Olympia Snowe for changing their lives
AUBURN — Three years ago, a couple of rising sophomores at Lewiston High School got an unexpected opportunity. Jenna Burton and Julia Chabot were tapped among an inaugural group of 49 young women at seven Androscoggin County high schools to join a new initiative by former U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe. Snowe said her mission was […]
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Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute graduates inaugural class
LEWISTON — On Thursday, May 31, the Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute graduated its inaugural class of program participants, called Olympia’s Leaders, at Bates College. Forty-five young women, selected from the seven Maine high schools serving Androscoggin County, graduated after participating in the institute’s program from its inception in 2015 through a three-year program rooted […]
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Collins, others: Gender matters in Congress
Would the presence of more women in Congress make a difference? Some academic studies say women are just as partisan as men. But others say the dearth of women on Capitol Hill might contribute to the bickering and gridlock that permeates Congress. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, said having women “does matter” because […]
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Political pioneer Margaret Chase Smith
Years before Margaret Chase Smith succeeded in getting elected as Maine’s first woman senator, she was a particularly savvy congressman’s wife. Her husband, Clyde Smith, represented the 2nd District and relied on her as his top office aide and campaign manager. “My role was to be at Clyde’s side as his right-hand man,” she wrote […]
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Maine leads nation in choosing women for U.S. Senate
When 18-year-old Sue Collins of Caribou boarded a plane one winter day in 1971, she couldn’t have imagined where it would take her. “I had never met a senator,” she recalled recently. “I had never been to Washington. I had never even flown on an airplane.” Chosen as one of two students from Maine to get […]
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Snowe, policy group release report on encouraging bipartisanship
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream AUGUSTA — A national congressional primary date, more young people in public service and five-day workweeks for Congress were among dozens of recommendations released Tuesday by a bipartisan group of leaders including former Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe that hopes to eliminate government dysfunction and gridlock. Snowe, a moderate Republican who […]
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Olympia Snowe proposes open primaries as way to combat gridlock
AUGUSTA — She has been out of office for nearly two years, but former Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has stayed focused on Washington. The three-term senator from Maine famously left Congress in 2012, dispirited by what she described as increasingly partisan gridlock and a failure of lawmakers to do the people’s work. She has […]
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Snowe proposes open primaries as a way to combat DC gridlock
AUGUSTA — She has been out of office for nearly two years, but former Republican U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has stayed focused on Washington. The three-term senator from Maine famously left Congress in 2012, dispirited by what she described as increasingly partisan gridlock and a failure of lawmakers to do the people’s work. She has […]