Dr. Renee Fay-LeBlanc says she has a patient with diabetes who can’t afford insulin or blood-sugar monitoring devices to help manage the disease. Another of her patients can’t afford inhalers to manage her chronic lung disease and has been hospitalized during the recent hot weather. Still another patient with a heart condition can’t afford the […]
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Paul LePage vetoes 23 bills, including funds for Medicaid expansion
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage vetoed nearly two dozen bills Monday, including one that was spurred by Maine’s failure to investigate the deaths of more than 130 developmentally disabled Medicaid patients. LePage is continuing his historic use of the veto pen as he attempts to block legislation dealing with everything from Medicaid expansion to needle […]
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Paul LePage vetoes funding for lead abatement program
AUGUSTA — As part of his effort to undermine a minimum wage hike approved by Maine voters in 2016, Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a spending bill Monday that includes $4 million for a lead abatement program aimed at alleviating a serious public health issue in Lewiston and Auburn. Lewiston and Auburn are considered among the […]
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Critics on both sides assail Collins on Supreme Court fight
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has staked out the most treacherous turf in the high-stakes battle looming over a new Supreme Court justice — firmly in the middle between two sides who are gearing up for war. “No matter how I vote, there are going to be people who are furious at me,” Collins told Politico […]
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Maine Harley owners aren’t fazed by Trump’s threats
Dan Liberty of Windham is like many other Harley-Davidson owners in Maine and beyond: fiercely loyal to the iconic American brand. He is not, however, among the customers who President Trump says are “very angry” about the company’s decision last week to move some of its motorcycle production overseas in response to the escalating trade […]
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Protesters of immigration policies organize rallies across Maine
AUBURN — Protesters in Lewiston-Auburn joined many across Maine and the nation Saturday to show their frustration with the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Some signs locally read, “Stop Separating Families,” “Resist Hate and Racism” or “Stop This Nightmare.” Longley Bridge was covered end-to-end with hundreds of protesters at the Families Belong Together rally, part of […]
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Paul LePage vetoes Medicaid expansion bill
Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a $60 million Medicaid expansion funding bill Friday, an expected move that sets up a veto override vote by lawmakers when they return on July 9. LePage said in a statement Friday evening that he vetoed the bill, passed by the Legislature last week, because lawmakers acted in a fiscally irresponsible […]
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Maine doctor says she is likely to challenge Susan Collins for Senate in 2020
A Down East physician who is “tired of seeing what’s going on” in Washington is likely to declare within weeks that she will challenge U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election in 2020. “I can’t sit idly by and just watch this,” Cathleen London, who practices in Milbridge, said Friday. “I can’t keep watching this train wreck.” […]
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Age to buy tobacco in Maine will increase this weekend
STATEWIDE (WGME) — The age to buy tobacco in Maine will increase from 18 to 21 this weekend. State lawmakers overrode Governor Paul LePage’s veto of the legislation last year. The new law also applies to electronic cigarettes. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action network says delaying the age when people first try tobacco can […]
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Legislative panel votes to subpoena no-show DHHS head in child death probe
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted Thursday to subpoena the head of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to testify, after he failed to attend a hearing on recent, high-profile child abuse deaths. The unanimous, bipartisan vote came moments after the committee learned that DHHS Commissioner Ricker Hamilton would not attend […]