Commission still at loggerheads over redrawing Maine Senate districts
That raises the specter that the issue will end up in court.
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What to expect from Paul LePage’s comeback rally today in Augusta
The kickoff will provide insight into the former governor’s plans and style.
Maine budget surplus exceeded goals for August, Janet Mills says
The budget surplus was 12 percent higher than expected.
Democrats, GOP strike deal to redraw Maine’s 151 House districts
Democrats and Republicans struck their first major redistricting deal on Tuesday, when a bipartisan panel released an agreement to redraw the state’s 151 House districts.
Maine could ban foreign influence in its elections, and the ballot campaign has drawn early support
The campaign seeking to ban electioneering by foreign governments in Maine ballot initiatives is getting early support from donors who backed the 2016 ranked choice voting referendum and other election reform advocates.
Homeland Security chief says images from US border ‘horrified’ him
He stopped short of calling the new influx of migrants there a crisis.
Maine House’s top Democrat joins push to defend abortion rights
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau is among 900 state lawmakers opposing Mississippi’s new abortion law.
Bruce Poliquin is ‘relocating to the Bangor area’ in bid to win back his old seat
The former congressman said he will be switching his residence again after his party proposed taking his old town out of the 2nd District.
Paul LePage and the GOP are working together on legislative races for a change
The former two-term governor is positioning himself as more of a party builder than the insurgent role he held in recent election cycles.
Federal officer arrested at Capitol rally won’t be charged
A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday’s rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January’s insurrection but will not be prosecuted.
Maine’s redistricting plans are due in a week and the parties are nowhere close to a deal
Maine’s redistricting panel has worked slowly and is nowhere close to consensus a week from its deadline.
Senate parliamentarian deals blow to Dems’ immigration push
Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs for their plan to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Senate’s parliamentarian said.
Biden’s vaccine booster and export plans collide at summit
President Joe Biden will set a new course for global vaccine allocation this week, hosting a summit on the shortage of shots in poorer countries even as the U.S. moves to give booster doses to millions of fully inoculated Americans.
Democrats push to retool health care programs for millions
“It’s a holistic look at how health care can be not just expanded, but better directed to the needs that people actually have,” Kathleen Sebelius, federal health secretary under President Barack Obama, said of the Biden bill.
Heavy police presence as protesters trickle in for DC rally
Persistent attempts to rewrite the narrative of the violence and panic of Jan. 6, and the increasing volatility behind the lie that the 2020 election was stolen, have made it impossible to predict what may happen this weekend.
Democrats tackling flash points of taxes, health, climate
Failure means President Joe Biden’s own party will have repudiated him on the cornerstone of his domestic agenda.
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