AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Department of Transportation has announced a $2 billion, three-year plan to improve roads, bridges, airports and other key infrastructure across the state. The plan announced Tuesday will use $100 million in state transportation bonds approved last November by voters and federal highway funds to pay for more than 1,600 projects. […]
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Maine’s liquor chief to step down
AUGUSTA (AP) — The chief of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations who just helped negotiate a new 10-year liquor distribution contract for the state says he is stepping down. Gerry Reid confirmed to the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/K1Fhbk ) on Tuesday that he is resigning, but he did not elaborate other […]
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Portland planners approve first phase of 165-foot-tall Bayside tower project
PORTLAND — In a nearly seven-hour meeting at Portland City Hall, members of the planning board gave developers the green light — in some cases begrudgingly — for the first phase of a four-tower, $150 million project in the city’s Bayside neighborhood. The long-awaited vote on the project’s fate came more than a month later […]
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Maine biathlete makes Olympic team
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A skier who got started through the Maine Winter Sports Center in Aroostook County has earned a spot on the U.S. team for the Winter Olympics. Russell Currier was the top American finisher in three of four qualifying races at the U.S. Biathlon Olympic Trials. He grew up in Stockholm in northern […]
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HHS committee grills author of Medicaid report
AUGUSTA – State lawmakers Tuesday picked apart the first portion of a nearly $1 million report on Maine’s welfare programs that’s being completed by a private company hired by the administration of Republican Gov. Paul LePage. While Republican lawmakers on the Legislature’s Health and Human Service Committee were largely complimentary of the work being done […]
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LePage says Maine must find $119 million to balance budget
AUGUSTA — Republican and House Minority Leader Kenneth Fredette, R-Newport, said late Monday afternoon that new data show a general fund revenue shortfall of $119 million in the two-year budget that started July 1, 2013, and ends June 30, 2015. The Department of Health and Human Services accounts for the vast majority of the shortfall. […]
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Incorrect degree
A graphic accompanying the story on Page A1 Sunday about the highest-paying jobs in Maine should have said at least a master’s degree is required to be a nurse anesthetist. The information was incorrectly submitted to the Sun Journal.
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F. Lee Bailey’s quest to practice in Maine moves to high court
PORTLAND — The justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court will decide if famed criminal defense attorney F. Lee Bailey will be allowed to practice law in Maine. Oral arguments in his case are to be heard Tuesday morning in the Cumberland County Courthouse. The appeal was filed by the State of Maine Board of […]
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Price of gas in Maine falls nearly 2 cents
PORTLAND (AP) — The average price of gasoline has fallen nearly 2 cents in Maine in the past week, to $3.52 a gallon. The gasoline pricing website GasBuddy.com surveys more than 1,200 Maine gasoline outlets. The average price of gas nationally has fallen slightly to $3.29 a gallon. Prices in Maine are 2.2 cents per […]
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Alexander to appear before Legislature’s HHS Committee
AUGUSTA — He was on the agenda and then he was off the agenda. Now he’s back on, and it appears lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee will get to hear, in person, from Gary Alexander. Alexander, the CEO of the Alexander Group — a Rhode Island company hired, under a nearly […]