AUGUSTA — The slate of Republican candidates for the general election in November took shape Tuesday in a primary election that saw low voter turnout throughout most of Maine. Some of the primary elections on the GOP side highlight a political divide between two of the state’s top Republicans: Gov. Paul LePage and Senate President […]
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Humane Society says LePage wrong; state knew about egg farm sting
The president of the Humane Society of the United States bit back at Gov. Paul LePage’s comments on HSUS’s undercover sting at the state’s largest egg farm. The society last week released photos and videos that it claimed showed inhumane conditions at the Turner egg farm owned by Jack DeCoster and managed under a long-term […]
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Gov. Paul LePage blames asylum seekers for carrying disease
PORTLAND — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is again blaming asylum seekers for bringing infectious disease into Maine – but he hasn’t released data proving it. The Portland Press Herald reports that state data shows seven tuberculosis cases in the first quarter of 2016, compared with a median of five cases for the same period during […]
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Gov. Paul LePage wants to call legislature into special session
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says he will call Maine legislators back into special session this summer to discuss four laws that he said lawmakers passed without appropriate funding. LePage claimed lawmakers didn’t appropriate money for a drug need exchange program, a wage study, raises at Riverview Psychiatric Recovery Center and $2.5 million to […]
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Gov. Paul LePage prescribes ‘tough love’ to treat opioid crisis
BOSTON — All six New England governors say fighting the social stigma associated with addiction is key to battling the opioid crisis raging across the region, claiming thousands of lives. The governors pointed to a series of steps needed to fight the problem, from increasing education in schools about the addictive nature of opioids to […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says Maine drug laws are too lax
Gov. Paul LePage is again turning his focus to the opioid epidemic. LePage and the other New England governors are gathering at Harvard Medical School to discuss what’s being done to fight the region’s addiction crisis. In at least two states — Maine and Massachusetts — lawmakers have enacted strict new limits on opioid prescriptions, […]
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Gov. Paul LePage diagnoses Maine’s health care woes
Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio appearance on WVOM on Tuesday to discuss health care in Maine and how we could all have access to it — with massive reforms to the system from the ground up. “I think everybody should, can and will have it,” said LePage. “The problem is, we say that we’re a […]
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Paul LePage says he misunderstood Deering Oaks heroin OD story
Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday that he now understands that a heroin overdose by a high school student happened at Deering Oaks park in Portland, not Deering High School. LePage has told a story during at least two of his previous town hall meetings and at least one statewide radio appearance about a Deering High […]
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In rebuttal: Freedom to choose works best
This is in response to a Sun Journal story (May 7) on the front page. The article ignored those statistics on right-to-work states that do not support the premise of the story — that Gov. Paul LePage misused figures about right-to-work states. Gov. LePage has asked people to do their own homework on right-to-work states […]
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Why Gov. Paul LePage is trending on Facebook
While conservatives are questioning how Facebook compiles its “Trending” list, Maine Gov. Paul LePage appeared on the list Tuesday morning. It was the video that aired on John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show that gave LePage the boost. Or the many Facebook users who shared the video profile of LePage for the show’s “People Who Somehow […]