AUGUSTA — The LePage administration on Tuesday unveiled a plan that could lead to sweeping structural changes in the state’s Medicaid program while ending health care coverage for 65,000 people currently receiving it. Gov. Paul LePage’s plan is designed to plug a new $120 million shortfall in the budget of the Department of Health and […]
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An evaluation of public benefits, private insurance
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services is facing a $120 million deficit, a gaping and largely unanticipated financial hole that must be filled if taxpayers hope to avoid funding yet another supplemental budget for this agency. According to DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew, the agency is now going through a thorough review to restructure and […]
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Gov. LePage says state can no longer afford to insure childless adults
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage is expected to unveil a plan this week to close a $120 million deficit in the budget for the state Department of Health and Human Services. While details of the plan have yet to be revealed, LePage said during his weekly radio address Saturday that the state can […]
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LePage: New Maine team to help ‘job creators’
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage says a new team has been assembled to improve the state’s business climate and help Maine businesses survive and grow. The governor’s newly formed team of account executives is now up and running in the Department of Economic and Community Development. Commissioner George Gervais says the team of […]
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Maine delegation asks for disaster declaration
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation is supporting Gov. Paul LePage’s request seeking a federal fisheries disaster declaration to provide aid to Maine’s groundfishing fleet. LePage on Tuesday said he sent a letter to Commerce Secretary John Bryson calling for a federal fisheries disaster declaration for Maine’s fleet. His request followed a recent report […]
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LePage touts needs of Maine businesses
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says the key to economic prosperity is to allow private businesses a chance to succeed. In his weekly radio address Saturday, LePage says he has heard from hundreds of business leaders at job creation workshops held this fall. LePage says business leaders are telling him the state […]
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Oil dealers urge LePage not to pick ‘winners and losers’ in setting energy policy
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage’s plans to reduce Mainers’ reliance on heating oil and expand natural gas is creating push-back from the state’s consortium of oil dealers. The Maine Energy Marketers Association, formerly known as the Maine Oil Dealers Association, recently met with the governor to discuss his suggestion that the state could back natural […]
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LePage reiterates education overhaul to improve business growth
AUBURN — Gov. Paul LePage’s third and final job-creation forum continued a familiar refrain at Central Maine Community College on Thursday: Maine businesses have jobs. What they don’t have is qualified applicants. The governor also expounded on his remarks from a previous forum during which he suggested that municipalities with strict regulations on business could […]
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Incoming Auburn mayor questions exclusion of city officials from jobs forum
AUBURN — The newly elected mayor of Auburn is calling out the LePage administration for excluding him and other city officials from Thursday’s job creation forum at Central Maine Community College. Jonathan LaBonte, elected Nov. 8, originally believed that LePage shut him out of the forum because LaBonte, a Republican, last year publicly supported independent […]
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$11.3 million raised for Maine community colleges
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Campaign for Maine’s Community Colleges says $11.3 million has been raised by the private sector to support the state’s seven community colleges. Monday’s announcement marked the end of the first phase of the campaign, which began in early 2010 and sought to raise a minimum of $10 million. The […]