LEWISTON — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, toured the city’s emerging riverfront area Tuesday during a Thanksgiving break from Congress to reflect on the role federal funds can play in redeveloping a local economy. Walking with Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald, City Administrator Ed Barrett and the top officials in the city’s public works, planning and […]
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Angus King to host round table on painkillers as gateway to addiction
PORTLAND — U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, will host a roundtable discussion on prescription painkillers and the role they play in heroin and other opioid addictions in Maine on Tuesday. King is taking the conversation to the state’s largest city, which has also been hit hard by heroin overdoses and drug-related crimes. The roundtable will […]
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How refugees make their way to Maine
Refugees from Syria have dominated the news this week following terrorist attacks in Paris and declarations by more than half the nation’s governors that they won’t allow Syrian refugees to settle in their states (even though they have no power to stop resettlement). Hundreds of refugees have made their way to Maine in recent years […]
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Bolduc resigns; Democrats seek nominees for register of probate
AUBURN — Less than a year on the job, Androscoggin County’s Register of Probate Brian Bolduc has resigned. Bolduc, a Democrat who was elected in November 2014, offered his one-sentence resignation letter in October. “Please (accept) this letter as my formal notice of resignation from Androscoggin County as the Register of Probate,” the letter reads. […]
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Penobscot chief says tribe’s relationship with Maine at all-time low
LEWISTON — The chief of Maine’s largest Native American tribe said Thursday that its relationship with state government was at an all-time low. “I don’t know that it’s ever been good, but right now it’s as bad as I’ve ever seen it,” Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis said in a presentation at the Lewiston Public […]
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Maine political spokespeople David Sorensen, Jodi Quintero take new jobs
There’s some change on the Maine political media relations front this week, with two mouthpieces — one Republican and one Democrat — taking new jobs. Republican Gov. Paul LePage has hired David Sorensen, who was the spokesman for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services for the past year, as a policy adviser, while […]
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Lewiston’s Tirabassi has made it with Maine swim team
The University of Maine wasn’t Peter Tirabassi’s first choice. And early on in his first season with the Black Bears’ swimming and diving team, the former Lewiston High School star wasn’t even sure it was the right choice. Those concerns have now been extinguished and Tirabassi has realized that Maine is where he belongs. “I […]
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Maine People’s Alliance plays new, aggressive role in elections
LEWISTON — The ink on the post-Election Day newspapers was barely dry and the ecstatic news releases declaring victory for Maine Republicans for the second year in a row were already streaming in. Maine GOP Chairman Rick Bennett declared the night’s events “historic.” It’s true, Republicans appeared to capture two seats in the Maine House […]
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Religious attack creates rift within Maine GOP; bishop calls for respect
LEWISTON — A former communications director on the re-election campaign for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins denounced a Maine GOP-sponsored blog that’s provided fodder for attacks against Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin. Lance Dutson, who was once the chief executive officer for the right-leaning Maine Heritage Policy Center, called a recent post questioning whether Chin is […]
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Summit Project carries stones and stories so Maine’s heroes are not forgotten
In mid-October, as part of the Summit Project, I carried the stone and the story of Marine Corps Sgt. Kevin Brian Balduf to the summit of Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park. In reality, Balduf carried me. Kevin, as Balduf has become known to me, was a Marine Corps radioman who lost his life in Afghanistan’s […]