Maine’s unemployment system was in a historically good financial situation until the crisis forced it to pay out $6 million alone to people who filed between March 15 and March 21. Read More
Both of Maine’s senators on Saturday spoke out against the abrupt firing of an independent watchdog for the country’s intelligence agencies who played an important role in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Read More
The $350 billion federal loan program aimed at easing the financial pain of the new coronavirus for small businesses rolled out on Friday, less than a week after being signed into law amid heavy demand and some confusion. Read More
There is a scene in the movie “Independence Day” when President Whitmore and senior leaders take refuge in Area 51. They meet the wild-eyed Dr. Brackish Okun, who had spent years studying the alien’s technology. Okun was enthused; the arrival of extraterrestrials turned… Read More
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine on Thursday largely praised President Donald Trump’s recent response to the coronavirus while disagreeing with his administration’s decision to not re-open enrollment in health care plans under the Affordable Care Act. Read More
A review of federal purchasing contracts by The Associated Press shows federal agencies largely waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of equipment needed by front-line health care workers. Read More
The number of people infected in the U.S. has exceeded 300,000, with the death toll climbing past 8,400. Read More
3M argued that blocking exports will raise "significant humanitarian implications" abroad and lead other countries to retaliate by withholding much-needed medical supplies from the U.S. Read More
The president immediately said he had no intention of following that advice himself, saying, "I'm choosing not to do it." Read More
President Donald Trump on Friday abruptly fired the inspector general of the intelligence community, sidelining an independent watchdog who played a pivotal role in his impeachment even as his White House struggled with the deepening coronavirus pandemic. Read More
The change, reflected on government websites on Friday, came a day after Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and White House senior adviser who has taken a larger role in the coronavirus response, offered a new argument about the stockpile. Read More
Two of the most powerful people in Washington have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century, one that has already killed more than 6,000 Americans and put 10 million others out of work. Read More
Maine is expanding leave options for state employees in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak as mandated under a federal law that passed in mid-March. Read More
Tradition dictates that Democrats, as the party out of power, hold their convention first. Read More
The Maine Department of Labor’s phone system was down on Thursday and apparently at several other times this week as the coronavirus prompts record-setting unemployment filings and many report an inability to reach the state for help. Read More
Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap said on Wednesday his office did not disqualify enough signatures to stop the progress of a referendum set for the November 2020 ballot that aims to kill Central Maine Power’s proposed corridor project. Read More
When Abbott Laboratories announced a made-in-Maine coronavirus test kit last week that could produce results in minutes rather than days, excitement rippled across a nation strapped by too many patients, too few testing supplies and slow results. Read More
A Maine Department of Health and Human Services office in Lewiston is closing again after a second employee tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. Read More
Gov. Janet Mills asked President Donald Trump to issue a disaster declaration covering all of Maine’s 16 counties. Read More
Maine would join dozens of other states that have been granted a major disaster declaration as the number of confirmed cases of the virus continue to rise across the country. Read More
Maine has outpaced most other states in testing people for the new coronavirus, but the state is still seeing a sharp increase in hospitalizations as it remains a week or more behind harder-hit states in fighting the spread of the virus. Read More
President Donald Trump will not reopen the Obamacare exchanges to allow uninsured Americans to purchase health care coverage during the coronavirus pandemic, a White House official said Tuesday night. Read More
An estimated 61,000 Maine jobs could be lost by the summer as the new coronavirus drags the country into a recession, according to a new analysis from the liberal Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Economic Policy Institute. Read More
The new findings are on top of problems identified last year by the watchdog office, which concluded that the FBI had made significant errors and omissions in applications to eavesdrop on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Read More
That comes as the White House projected there could be 100,000 to 240,000 deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus pandemic even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained. Read More
Gov. Janet Mills said Tuesday that she will issue an order “insisting” that out-of-state visitors to Maine self-quarantine for two weeks in what would be one of her strongest mandates yet in fighting the new coronavirus outbreak. Read More
Gun shops will be allowed to reopen in Maine after the administration of Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday included them on an updated list of businesses that will be allowed to operate despite a new stay-at-home order aimed at fighting the coronavirus. Read More
