It could be only the beginning of a court fight around the embattled Maine Clean Election program. Read More
Good morning from Augusta. Noise is increasing around the race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, with a big-name politician and dark money coming to the aid of the Democratic candidate as Republicans looking to defend U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin grope for attack lines. Read More
It makes Maine the sixth state to have a reinsurance program approved in this manner. Read More
Good morning from Augusta. Gov. Paul LePage said on Thursday that he won’t put forward a proposed slate of child welfare system reforms until the Legislature finishes stalled work that has kept it in session deep into 2018 —… Read More
Good morning from Augusta. This week, we got the first look at how the four gubernatorial candidates on Maine’s November ballot have raising and spending their money since the June primaries and the result is four deeply divergent campaign strategies. Democratic nominee Janet Mills… Read More
Conservatives backing a bill to ban female genital mutilation in Maine — including the outgoing state Senate majority leader — have launched a bid to put the issue that has been much-debated in the Legislature to voters in a June 2019 referendum. Read More
Justices on Maine’s high court heard arguments Wednesday in a procedural case about Medicaid expansion, but many questions turned to larger issues of whether the state must — or even could — fund it with no revenue dedicated by the Legislature. Read More
Republicans in the Maine House of Representatives on Monday upheld Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a bill that would have provided startup funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion, guaranteeing for now that the issue will be solved in court. Read More
The Legislature must get two-thirds votes in both chambers to override the governor’s vetoes. Read More
Gov. Paul LePage vetoed six more bills Friday, endangering an effort from LGBT activists to ban so-called “conversion therapy” and adding to a pile of work for lawmakers who will have 42 vetoes to consider next week. Read More
Good morning from Augusta. The Legislature is set to return to Augusta next week to handle dozens of vetoes from Gov. Paul LePage amid a large pile of outstanding work. One of the chief items is the authorization of… Read More
Good morning from Augusta, where at least 36 vetoes from Gov. Paul LePage will await lawmakers who return next week in a session that has now stretched into the dog days of summer with… Read More
Bonds have become so common that the Maine Department of Transportation’s work plan assumes that it will get bond money. But current events have shown that they’re a political tool subject to the whims and foibles of a fractured government. Read More
Gov. Paul LePage announced Friday that he would veto bills that would provide up to $55 million in funding for voter-approved Medicaid expansion and increase reimbursement rates for services for Mainers with disabilities and fund county jails. Read More
Advocates for taxpayer-funded campaigns filed a lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage and his administration on Thursday in a bid to force him to release at least $1.4 million in Clean Election money that is owed to 120 Maine gubernatorial and legislative candidates. Read More
The Maine Ethics Commission has reduced payments to Clean Election candidates to 28 percent of the amount owed to each amid an ongoing dispute. Read More
Ranked-choice voting has taught us a lot already, and we’ll be learning more about it as Maine moves ahead with it. Read More
The chief justice of Maine’s high court delayed the implementation of Medicaid expansion, at least until oral arguments in a legal battle on the issues are held in mid-July, rankling advocates by stretching past a statutory deadline for coverage. Read More
Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden will be Democrats’ nominee to run against U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin in the 2nd Congressional District in November after the Maine secretary of state released unofficial ranked-choice voting tallies on Wednesday. Read More
Attorney General Janet Mills won Maine’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination after unofficial ranked-choice counts from the state released on Wednesday, defeating attorney Adam Cote and five others after last week’s elections. Read More
