AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s office says he didn’t sign a $29 million spending package because of concerns with allocations to an energy efficiency program. Spokeswoman Adrienne Bennett said LePage agrees with elements of the budget. But she said he’s deeply concerned that Maine now is 11th highest in the nation in energy costs […]
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Don't insult our intelligence
I am writing to call attention to the way Gov. Paul LePage is planning to ignore the will of the voters. LePage has plans to do away with or greatly weaken the referendum questions many people voted for. He has even implied, in a newspaper article a few weeks ago, that voters were not smart […]
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$29 million spending plan becomes law without LePage signature
AUGUSTA — A $29 million spending package that bolsters Maine’s rainy day fund and expands access to drug treatment has become law. The supplemental budget for the fiscal year ending in June became law Wednesday without GOP Gov. Paul LePage’s signature. Lawmakers are continuing to hold hearings on the governor’s separate $6.8 billion, two-year budget […]
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Gov. Paul LePage postpones Gorham town hall
Gov. Paul LePage’s office says it has to postpone Wednesday night’s town hall in Gorham. The town has a parking ban expected to last until Thursday morning, according to a statement from LePage’s press secretary, Adrienne Bennett. It will be rescheduled.
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Gov. Paul LePage predicts Trump administration will re-certify Riverview
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican governor says he predicts the Trump administration will re-certify a state-run psychiatric hospital. Gov. Paul LePage said during a Tuesday call-in on WVOM-FM that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is “very receptive” to the LePage administration’s case to re-certify Riverview Psychiatric Center. Riverview lost federal Centers for Medicare and […]
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Paul LePage says Dems blocked his efforts to fight opiate crisis
Gov. Paul LePage tore into Democrats on Tuesday for years of blocking his administration’s efforts to expand treatment options for opioid addicts, accusing them of warming to his proposals only when an election was approaching. The comments came during a wide-ranging and eventful radio interview this morning on WVOM after LePage was challenged by a guest host about how […]
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Paul LePage tells town hall that welfare recipients need to work
YARMOUTH — Gov. Paul LePage told an overflow crowd at his town hall meeting Wednesday night that he will return to Washington, D.C., this week in an effort to convince his fellow Republicans that anyone who receives welfare, including subsidized health care, should be required to work. “I am going to Washington and that’s one […]
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Paul LePage to Paul Ryan: GOP plan caters to big-government lobbyists
In this Jan. 8, 2016, file photo, Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference at the State House in Augusta, Maine. GOP Gov. Paul LePage is telling Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan that the country needs a truly conservative, free-market replacement of former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) […]
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Working for Trump is 'wishful thinking' according to Paul LePage
Gov. Paul LePage may be an enthusiastic supporter of President Donald Trump, but LePage called the possibility of him working in the Trump administration “wishful thinking on the parts of my adversaries.” Gov. Paul LePage calls speculation of him landing a job in Republican President Donald Trump’s administration “wishful thinking on the parts of my […]