Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn’s ballot status will be reconsidered after his opponent in the June primary flagged more issues with nominating petition signature on his that a state attorney said “could change the outcome” for him. Read More
Good morning from Augusta, where everyone is tired and cranky after a contentious three days at the State House. We’ll catch up on a few items that might have been overshadowed by the uproar on the House floor. LePage asks legislators to ‘address student debt!’… Read More
Tax day hath cometh and goeth. I hope you sent your paperwork to the IRS, or got an extension. Meanwhile, the state Legislature is no longer meeting. Maine law requires them to adjourn their “short session” by April 18, or get an extension,… Read More
What makes this year unique is that a bulk of what legislative leaders and Gov. Paul LePage hoped to accomplish in 2018 has not been accomplished. Read More
Legislators in both parties agreed that they must return to Augusta to handle key matters that lawmakers punted when the Legislature broke up early Thursday. Read More
The Legislature was supposed to adjourn at midnight on Wednesday, but Democrats let the session stretch on in an arcane procedural fight that we try to explain. Read More
The case asserts that the Russian hacking campaign – combined with Trump associates’ contacts with Russia and the campaign’s public cheerleading of the hacks – amounted to an illegal conspiracy to interfere in the election that caused serious damage to the Democratic Party. Read More
President Donald Trump won't be joining his wife in attending the memorial service of former first lady Barbara Bush, matriarch of a political dynasty Trump often clashed with during his 2016 campaign. Read More
Democrats and House Republicans may not see expansion and conformity, respectively, as issues worth sticking around for at this point in the legislative session. Read More
“The voters have grown weary of a government that sits on its hands and refuses to do its job because we cannot find a way to talk to one another,” said Rep. Kent Ackley. Read More
“I do not think tearing down the media is good for our nation. … Tearing down the Justice Department or the FBI is not a good thing for our nation.” Read More
Trump also said that he hopes the summit can happen within weeks — most likely in late May or early June — but he also allowed that the meeting might not happen if preparations went wrong. Read More
The court ruled that the law in question was unconstitutionally vague, with the newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, joining the court’s liberal members in the 5-to-4 decision. Read More
Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, is privately pledging to Democratic senators that he would oppose efforts to privatize veterans’ health care in his bid to lock down bipartisan support to lead the agency. Read More
Attorney General Jeff Sessions proposed a change to national drug policy Tuesday by limiting the amount of opioids that certain companies can manufacture each year in an effort to fight what has become a nationwide epidemic. Read More
The decision from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court allows Secretary of State Matt Dunlap to continue implementing the system for gubernatorial and congressional primaries. Read More
The proposal was aimed at ensuring people seeking to put questions on the state ballot balance signature-gathering more equitably between Maine’s two congressional districts. Read More
The court's 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that defines what makes a crime violent. Read More
Dozens of people have been charged with distributing heroin and fentanyl in the takedown of a drug distribution network operating in West Virginia and Michigan, Justice Department officials said Tuesday. Read More
