AUGUSTA — Regardless of who is elected his successor, Gov. Paul LePage said Monday he plans to move to Florida for tax reasons and maybe to teach. “I’ll be a resident of Florida if Janet Mills wins, I can promise you that,” LePage, referring to the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, said with a smile one day […]
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Paul LePage rips into Jared Golden, predicts he’ll lose to Poliquin
Despite working with 2nd Congressional District candidate Jared Golden this year to help returning military medics, Republican Gov. Paul LePage assailed the Lewiston Democrat on Thursday as a partisan do-nothing. Speaking on Portland radio station WGAN, LePage said Golden told “a bald-faced lie” in a radio advertisement that mentioned their cooperation on legislation. But the […]
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Gov. Paul LePage orders flags to be flown at half-staff for synagogue shooting victims
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered United States and state of Maine flags be flown at half-staff in respect for the eleven victims of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. The Republican governor said Sunday that he and his wife are “deeply saddened by this tragedy, which occurred in a place of worship.” […]
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People before politics before people
The headline on Nov. 5, 1936, in the Fairview Republican read something like, “Landon wins Maine, Vermont and Major County.” The weekly newspaper was gently poking its readers and itself, aligning them with a bunch of crusty Yankees as the only majorities for Alf Landon against FDR’s steamrolling re-election. Fairview and Major County in northwestern […]
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LePage appealing lawsuit against Mills to Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Gov. Paul LePage will appeal a judge’s decision that Attorney General Janet Mills did not exceed her authority by joining a lawsuit in defense of protections for young undocumented immigrants. Mills joined California and other states in September 2017 in a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or […]
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Lepage made secret trip to Spain last week to meet with CMP's owners
AUGUSTA — Before heading to Iceland for a session of the Arctic Circle Assembly last week, Gov. Paul LePage flew to Spain to meet with leaders of the company that owns Central Maine Power. Julie Rabinowitz, LePage’s press secretary, confirmed Monday that LePage met with Iberdrola on Oct. 16. Rabinowitz said LePage and Iberdrola executives […]
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Paul LePage says his health is excellent after ‘cardiac issue’ in August
Gov. Paul LePage said publicly for the first time on Thursday that he was admitted to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor in late August after experiencing what he described as a “cardiac issue.”
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Judge hears Medicaid expansion case
A Superior Court judge heard arguments Thursday about whether the LePage administration is obligated to expand Medicaid without funding from the Legislature, even as the state continues to turn away thousands of applicants for coverage. In the latest round of legal wrangling over Medicaid expansion, lawyers for Maine Equal Justice Partners and Gov. Paul LePage […]
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Feds say Paul LePage can’t cut job-training funds
AUGUSTA (AP) — Federal officials told Gov. Paul LePage in June that he can’t impose financial penalties on local groups that help job-seekers as part of his battle to cut bureaucracy out of job-training efforts, according to correspondence obtained this month by The Associated Press through a federal Freedom of Information Act request. LePage, a […]
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LePage's secret wind commission falling apart
A vocal critic of commercial wind energy in Maine has resigned from Gov. Paul LePage’s secretive commission to study the industry, saying the group “lacks urgency, credibility and focus.” Chris O’Neil, a consultant to the anti-wind organization Friends of Maine’s Mountains, said he welcomed the creation of the Maine Wind Energy Advisory Commission as a […]