Maine lawmakers convened at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday to tackle the state’s next two-year spending plan. The budget…
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Maine’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee met on Thursday to hold a work session on LD 715, a concept draft…
The Maine Legislature will convene in person on Tuesday to approve the state’s next biennial budget, likely along party lines.…
Maine lawmakers will convene in-person in Augusta this week for the first time since December 2, when legislators met at…
After Maine Democrats sent a letter to the state’s top public safety official Monday calling for an investigation into the…
With Maine’s 2020 statewide general election behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the first regular session of the…
I’ve often generalized about Republican’s and Democrats by saying that the former almost always play defense, and the latter always…
PORTLAND – Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Shenna Bellows sought to tie incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins to Texas Republican…
With all the talk of debates this year, we thought readers might be interested in watching a collection of previous…
The Maine Democratic Party is issuing mailers on behalf of a Democratic state senator from Androscoggin County. The mailers tout…
Greetings from Amherst to all readers of the Maine Wire: With fewer than 90 days to Election Day, it’s time…
The Washington Post’s Election Lab is predicting that Republicans will grow their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives by…
Two young guns in the Maine Republican Party are leading candidates for the state legislature in fundraising, according to the…
U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, a Democrat, espoused a view of federal deficits and taxation in 2002 that most voters would associate…
The two Republican candidates battling for a chance to become the next congressman from Maine’s 2nd Congressional District shared a…
Should teachers’ unions set Maine’s education policy instead of local school boards and elected officials? Democratic U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud…
PORTLAND – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie joined Maine Gov. Paul LePage Wednesday for a campaign stop at Becky’s Diner…
AUGUSTA – Republican leaders say funding for nursing homes across the state has been jeopardized by Democratic lawmakers refusal to…
The Maine State Senate is one of the top 5 electoral battlegrounds in the country, according to a recent Wall…
Heading to “Veto Day” at the State House, a newspaper headline asks, “Are LePage’s 179 vetoes leadership or extremism?” Perhaps…
A poll out Wednesday morning shows Republican Gov. Paul LePage with a slight lead over both opponents in his reelection…
The following is a speech prepared by Rep. Sharri MacDonald (R-Old Orchard Beach) to be given on the floor of…
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful, will speak at the 2014 Maine Republican Party convention.…
From House Communications Director David Sorensen AUGUSTA – House Republican Leader Ken Fredette (R-Newport) and Assistant Leader Alex Willette (R-Mapelton)…
AUGUSTA – The top Republican senator on the Legislature’s Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee says Democrats’ complaints about…
AUGUSTA – Democrats on the Health and Human Services Committee gutted two of Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s welfare reform proposals…
AUGUSTA – The talk was all about welfare Tuesday as the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee debated four bills…
AUGUSTA – Republican leaders gathered at the State House on Monday to call on Democrats to support an effort to…
AUGUSTA – For the first time since 2006, the Maine Republican Party will contest every state Senate and House of…
Maine has exceeded the Obama administration’s enrollment goal for the HealthCare.gov insurance exchanges thanks, in part, to the Republican reluctance…
When doctors discovered that Jeff and Kirsten Martin’s child would have serious medical complications, they urged her to terminate the…
AUGUSTA – Twenty-six Republican state representatives delivered an open letter to House Speaker Mark Eves (D-North Berwick) Wednesday morning asking…
AUGUSTA – A top Republican lawmaker on the Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee is questioning the objectivity of non-partisan…
AUGUSTA – The Maine State Workers’ Compensation Board announced Friday that rates will decrease by nearly 8 percent to 7.7…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul LePage delivered his third State of the State address Tuesday night, using the opportunity to…
AUGUSTA – Top Republicans said Tuesday that problems with President Obama’s signature health care law show the federal government’s promise…
AUGUSTA – Democratic leaders held an emergency meeting of the Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) and Health and Human…
Candidates for Congress in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District are not required to submit their first financial reports to the Federal…
Candidates for the 2nd Congressional District will report fundraising totals in less than a week, a moment that will show…
Republican Kevin L. Raye, believed by some to be the front-runner in the race for the Republican nomination in Maine’s…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage is touting the latest unemployment figures, which show Maine’s number of jobless at…
We have just concluded the first legislative session in Augusta since Democrats retook the majority from Republicans who held it…
AUGUSTA – Republicans and Democrats across the state are squabbling over Gov. Paul LePage’s record number of vetoes in the…
AUGUSTA – The Maine State Legislature on Wednesday voted to override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the $6.3 billion legislative…
AUGUSTA – Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday delivered a set of recommendations to the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee as it enters the…
AUGUSTA – Maine Democrats, led by Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Portland) and House Speaker Mark W. Eves (D-North Berwick)…
AUGUSTA – The Gang of Eleven’s tax plan is only one week old, but supporters say the version that emerges…
AUGUSTA – Republican and Democratic leaders held dueling press conferences on Tuesday over Gov. Paul R. LePage’s proposal to pay…
Reduce Maine’s income tax to four percent: Working Mainers would see their income taxes cut in half, from eight percent…
AUGUSTA – Giving hope to those who believe democracy flourishes through compromise, Republicans and Democrats in the so-called Gang of…
AUGUSTA – With less than two months remaining in the current legislative session, Democrats in Augusta appear to be in…
AUGUSTA – After more than a month of consideration, Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Cumberland) has refused to allow any…
AUGUSTA – Maine Republican Party Chairman Richard M. Cebra on Monday called on Senate President Justin L. Alfond (D-Cumberland) to…
King paid only 15% on nearly $4 million in income AUGUSTA – Yesterday Angus King’s campaign released a deceptive summary that…
By David Sorensen Maine Republican Party Welfare reform is one of the most important initiatives that Maine and America can…
Governor Paul LePage is doing exactly what he’s promised Mainers he’d do from the first day he set foot on…