AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s conservative fiscal views are putting a chill on a $31 million bond package sponsored by a quasi-state government body. The Maine Health and Higher Educational Facilities Authority is the agency that educational and health care nonprofits must go through under federal law to sell tax-exempt bonds. Unlike […]
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Group hopes Maine will help states get veto power over Congress
The executive director of a national organization that wants to give states the power to veto acts of Congress hopes Gov. Paul LePage and the Legislature will join the effort. Marianne Moran, the executive director of the Repeal Amendment, said LePage had been receptive to a libertarian movement that has so far gained traction in […]
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Maine regulatory overhaul bill aired
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers are full of questions as they get their first look at Gov. Paul LePage’s environmental regulatory reform bill, which gets the numerical distinction of being LD No. 1 among the hundreds of bills introduced this year. The Joint Select Committee on Regulatory Fairness and Reform is taking up only […]
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Our View: LePage plan less dramatic than expected
Current state employees are probably breathing a sigh of relief following Gov. Paul LePage’s promise Thursday not to conduct across-the-board cuts in state workers or payroll. The governor, in fact, was complimentary of the state work force, although he announced that a hiring freeze adopted during his predecessor’s term will continue. Most current state employees […]
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LePage calls budget proposal, “jobs bill”
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says there’ll be plenty of pain to go around when he unveils his two-year state budget. The budget is so important that LePage will deliver it to a joint session of the Maine Legislature on Thursday. Earlier this week, LePage signed a supplemental spending bill to shore […]
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Gov. LePage to present 2-year budget
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday will present to the Legislature a state spending blueprint for the next two-year budget cycle, and it is expected to reflect the austerity of the times and the governor’s promises not to raise taxes. The Republican governor will present his budget for the period starting July 1 to […]
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LePage touts proposed budget
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage says his proposed supplemental budget covering the remainder of fiscal 2011 includes tax breaks and helps the state to pay long-overdue bills. In his weekend radio address, LePage says his supplemental budget adjusting Maine’s finances through June 30 pays Maine’s hospitals $250 million in unreimbursed MaineCare expenses going […]
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Inmate charged with threatening Gov. Paul LePage
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine (AP) — An inmate in a Maine jail is facing charges he threatened to kill Gov. Paul LePage. Twenty-nine-year-old Leroy Dunn of Bangor was charged with terrorizing after officials say he wrote a note describing how he planned to kill the governor. Dunn is being held at the Piscataquis County jail on drug […]
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Governor’s proposal draws concerns
AUBURN — There was no screaming Thursday at a forum on regulatory fairness. No chairs where flung and voices barely got above the levels necessary to be heard in a school auditorium. There was, however, passion. One by one, business owners, outdoor enthusiasts, environmental activists and ordinary people stood at a podium to address the […]
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Former governor candidate Chandler Woodcock seen as Maine game chief
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A former Maine state senator and Republican candidate for governor is reported to be Gov. Paul LePage’s choice for fish and game commissioner. The Portland Press Herald says Chandler Woodcock of Farmington, who ran for governor in 2006 but lost to John Baldacci, is expected to be nominated as commissioner of […]