AUBURN — The Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce will hold its October breakfast at 7 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch. The speaker will be Maine Gov. Paul LePage. Chamber breakfasts present an opportunity to network with other like-minded business professionals while enjoying breakfast and insight from speakers. Cost is […]
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Gov. Paul LePage joins effort to block overtime rules
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage has signed on to a legal complaint by 21 states against new overtime rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to the LePage administration, the new rules would mean that all salaried employees who earn less than $47,500 a year would be eligible for overtime pay. That […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says Fairchild sale will lead to job losses
Gov. Paul LePage says his warning regarding major manufacturing job losses in southern Maine is playing out. During his weekly radio appearance Tuesday morning on WVOM, LePage said he’s known about the sale of Fairchild Semiconductor of South Portland to an Arizona-based company for months and that it was one of the businesses he was […]
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Gov. Paul LePage predicts Donald Trump will win Maine
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Merrill Auditorium on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Portland. Gov. Paul LePage has predicted that Donald Trump will secure three of Maine’s four electoral votes. LePage, who has said recently he won’t speak to reporters anymore, told a reporter for Brietbart News, a conservative […]
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Lewiston woman to meet LePage to discuss treatment of addicts
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has invited a woman who is recovering from heroin addiction to Augusta to discuss how the state can address its drug addiction problem. Rosanna Boyce of Lewiston, who reached out to LePage via email earlier this month, said Wednesday morning that she is eager to meet with LePage. “I absolutely […]
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Gov. Paul LePage defends hiring welfare contractor
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says he doesn’t understand the “hoopla” over his administration’s plan to privatize a $62.5 million welfare program in Maine. Maine State Employees Association President Ramona Welton said Tuesday that 51 jobs are jeopardized by the governor’s plan for a New York nonprofit to run Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. But […]
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Gov. Paul LePage hints about suing over op-ed alleging substance abuse
Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday that he may take legal action in response to an op-ed in the Portland Press Herald that alleged he had problems with substance abuse. He said that on his weekly radio appearance on WVOM, in response to a Labor Day weekend op-ed published in the Portland Press Herald/Maine SundayTelegram after LePage’s controversial remarks about black and Hispanic drug […]
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Gov. Paul LePage plans to privatize Maine’s welfare programs
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage wants to turn over the administration of Maine’s $62.5 million welfare program to a New York City-based nonprofit that’s faced a dozen state and federal lawsuits since 2013. Fedcap Rehabilitation Services acknowledges its recent litigation in its bid proposal to Maine officials while also describing its accomplishments. Since 2013, […]
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Can Gov. LePage help himself?
At first, I was just annoyed when Gov. Paul LePage tried to get a service member to validate his comment that “A bad guy is a bad guy, I don’t care what color he is. When you go to war, if you know the enemy … You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify […]
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Secretary of State says he can’t start ousting Gov. Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Democratic secretary of state says Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s recent behavior has caused outrage but that doesn’t mean he can’t keep performing as governor. A group of independent and Democratic lawmakers had asked Secretary of State Matt Dunlap to invoke a never-before-used constitutional provision they said would let Dunlap start the process of […]