WASHINGTON — I am a rock-ribbed conservative who wants Republicans to keep control of Congress. But I am not unhappy that Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone appears to have lost the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. Why? Because he insulted my mother. Trailing his Democratic opponent in a district Donald Trump won by […]
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Democrats seeking Poliquin's House seat try to gather votes at Bates
LEWISTON — Taking the stage at Bates College on Thursday, a quartet of 2nd District Democratic congressional hopefuls sounded pretty friendly with one another and not too different in their stances on the issues of the day. They basically like unions, want to expand the Medicare system to cover everyone, support greater measures to deal […]
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Auburn Democrats to meet Tuesday
AUBURN — The monthly meeting of the Auburn Democratic City Committee is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Auburn City Building. New committee officers for 2018-2020 will be installed, a report on the March 4 caucus will be given and candidates for the 2018 elections will address the committee. All Auburn Democrats […]
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Donald Trump replaces H.R. McMaster with John Bolton as national security adviser
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is replacing national security adviser H.R. McMaster with John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Trump tweets that McMaster has done “an outstanding job & will always remain my friend.” He says Bolton will take over April 9. Trump has repeatedly clashed with McMaster, a respected […]
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Spending bill could bar restaurant owners from taking servers’ tips
Tucked into Congress’s 2,200-plus-page omnibus spending bill are a few paragraphs that would prohibit employers from sharing server tips with others in a restaurant — including the employers themselves. Worker advocates label the provision a bipartisan rebuke to a proposed Department of Labor rule last year that could have legalized a practice now considered wage […]
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Analysis: A federal government shutdown looks unlikely
WASHINGTON — Is the government going to shut down Friday? A majority of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are motivated not to let what would be the third shutdown this year happen. They may not have a choice, though. We’re hours away from a midnight Friday deadline for Congress to appropriate money for […]
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Donald Trump warns that Joe Biden ‘would go down fast and hard’
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe! — Donald J. Trump […]
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Donald Trump to punish China on trade
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was ready to hit China with billions of dollars in trade sanctions Thursday for stealing American technology and pressuring U.S. companies to hand it over. Farmers, electronics retailers and other U.S. businesses braced for a backlash as the Chinese government vowed to take “all necessary measures” to defend itself […]
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Legislator requests formal investigation of botched unemployment system
An official investigation into the Maine Department of Labor’s botched roll out of the unemployment insurance filing system has been requested by a state legislator after a leaked confidential memo outlined how the department rushed to implement the new system and destroyed records of their failure in what was described as a “coverup.” Meanwhile, it […]
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Commentator Ralph Peters leaves Fox News, calls it a ‘propaganda machine’
Commentator and author Ralph Peters isn’t just closing the door on his career at Fox News Channel. He’s slamming it right off the hinges. In a blistering goodbye email, Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who commented on military affairs, called Fox “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.” He described […]