Maine’s senators split on their support for Gina Haspel’s nomination by President Trump to become the next director of the CIA, with Sen. Susan Collins saying she will vote for Haspel’s confirmation and Sen. Angus King saying he will vote against it. Collins, a Republican, and King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, both issued […]
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Former LePage adviser repays state for cost of Trump Hotel stay
AUGUSTA — Shortly after his resignation as a senior policy adviser to Gov. Paul LePage last month, Aaron Chadbourne took an unusual step: He reimbursed the state for the $925.16 it cost to put him up for two nights at Trump International Hotel in Washington last spring. Chadbourne, who served as the governor’s legislative liaison […]
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Waterville to vote on recall of Mayor Nick Isgro on June 12
WATERVILLE — Voters on June 12 will decide whether Mayor Nick Isgro will remain the city’s mayor, since the City Council on Tuesday voted 6-0 to place the recall question on the ballot that day. With Isgro and Councilor Nathaniel White, D-Ward 2, absent from the meeting, about a dozen people sat in the audience […]
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Democratic congressional primary begins to heat up
Thanks to some mostly innocuous television advertisements from an outside group, things are heating up among the three candidates in the June 12 Democratic congressional primary for Maine’s 2nd District seat. The commercials, from a nonprofit social welfare group called the Maine Outdoor Alliance, tout the wonders of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, […]
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Max Linn can’t be candidate for U.S. Senate, Maine’s top court rules
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated the candidacy of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn, a financial planner who lives in Bar Harbor. Linn’s campaign appealed a decision by Kennebec County Superior Court Justice William Stokes, who ruled that Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap was correct […]
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GOP frets over West Virginia as four states decide primaries
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican primary voters in West Virginia are deciding whether a brash outsider using a racially charged closing message or one of two more mainstream GOP candidates will face vulnerable Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin this fall in a general election both parties view as key to Senate control for the next two […]
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Collins, King under pressure to oppose controversial CIA director nominee
Maine’sU.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King are coming under pressure from human rights groups who oppose Gina Haspel’s nomination to be director of the CIA, citing her role in the agency’s detention and “enhanced interrogation” of suspected terrorists in the wake of 9/11. Haspel, a 33-year veteran of the CIA and its current deputy […]
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Giuliani's media blitz defending Donald Trump is off to rough start
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is off to a rough start in his media blitz defending Trump’s stance toward the special counsel’s Russian investigation and a $130,000 porn star hush payment. Giuliani’s confounding and at times contradictory statements are said to have pleased Trump, exasperated White House aides and attorneys […]
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What is ranked-choice voting?
What is ranked-choice voting? Ranked-choice voting allows you to rank candidates in a race from most to least favorite. If your favorite candidate receives the least amount of votes in a race, your vote will be transferred to your second-favorite candidate. The way we vote now: Right now, when we go to the polls, we vote […]
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Republicans gear up for rough election season
AUGUSTA — As Maine’s gubernatorial race grows increasingly heated, Republican hopeful Ken Fredette told state GOP convention delegates Saturday, “This is going to be a war, folks.” The 1,600 delegates who gathered at the Maine Civic Center this weekend could at least take heart that the volleys lobbed toward the enemy were just about always […]