Maine Sen. Susan Collins was the sole Republican to oppose Steven Menashi, joining Democrats in criticizing his record on immigration, race, women’s equality and LGBTQ rights.
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Sens. Collins, King co-sponsor effort to expand regional climate programs
The group has introduced bipartisan legislation to support and expand programs such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
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Maine’s congressional delegation backs effort to spur passage of Equal Rights Amendment
When the ERA failed to gain enough support by one old 1982 deadline, it seemed dead, but it suddenly has life again and may win approval within months.
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Collins seeks to ‘fix’ federal tax marriage penalty
Maine’s senior senator pushes to double the deduction for state and local taxes for married filers, a change that would help many in high-tax states like Maine.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Maine woman found guilty of sending threatening mail to Sen. Collins
Suzanne Muscara said the letter, which claimed to contain anthrax, was a joke. A jury thought otherwise.
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Promised $2.5 million and a Mercedes, an Auburn senior wound up losing her life savings
Barbara Hinckley, 95, lost everything to a sweet-talking scam artist who told her she’d placed second in a sweepstakes for the Publisher’s Clearing House.
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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.’
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Out-of-state donors flood Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race
In a campaign that could decide control of the Senate in 2020, they make the vast majority of $200-plus donations to Susan Collins and Sara Gideon.
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Democrats hopeful as they bring campaigns for U.S. Senate to rural Sangerville Grange
SANGERVILLE — For a few hours recently, the 115-year-old East Sangerville Grange Hall, one of those classic white clapboard New England structures, stood at the center of what may prove the most important U.S. Senate race in the nation. That mid-October Saturday night marked the first time each of the Maine Democratic Party’s Senate contenders gathered […]
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Portland to receive nearly $900,000 to help cover cost of aiding asylum seekers
The federal funding includes $864,000 for the city of Portland, plus another $28,500 for 2 local nonprofits that helped provide housing and other services.