AUGUSTA (AP) — A GOP lawmaker in Maine wants to allow adults to carry a firearm while hunting bears with kids. Currently, licensed junior hunters can hunt bear with a firearm, bow and arrow or crossbow on Maine’s youth bear hunting day. But parent, guardians and adult supervisors aren’t allowed to hold a firearm while […]
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Maine’s congressional delegation responds to report Trump sought to fire Mueller
One of Maine’s members of Congress on Friday called President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful effort to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller “Nixonian.” In the wake of a New York Times story Friday that reported Trump sought to fire Mueller, who is investigating alleged ties between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign, both of Maine’s members of Congress […]
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Craig Olson hopes to go from a Maine island to Congress
Born on a little Wisconsin dairy farm near the Kickapoo River, Craig Olson isn’t one of those Mainers with deep roots who’s slightly suspicious of folks from away. The 52-year-old Democratic congressional hopeful is someone who lived in a number of states before buying “a complete fixer-upper” in a nice neighborhood on Islesboro 17 years […]
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Maine ethics panel will consider Democratic complaint about GOP
AUGUSTA — The Maine Republican Party denied Friday that it has anything to do with the secretive Maine Examiner. Despite online evidence that the party’s executive director had ties to the website that helped torpedo Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin’s campaign in December, the GOP said the Examiner “was not created or operated by, or […]
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Donald Trump’s immigration pivot angers his supporters
NEW YORK (AP) — Fearing betrayal on a signature campaign issue, President Donald Trump’s loyalists are lashing out against his proposal to create a path to citizenship for nearly 2 million “Dreamer” immigrants. Trump-aligned candidates from Nevada and Virginia rejected the notion outright. A loyal media ally, Breitbart News, attacked him as “Amnesty Don.” And […]
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Donald Trump declares America open for business under his tenure
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Declaring that America is open for business under his leadership, President Donald Trump told a wary gathering of political and business elites on Friday that the economic growth taking place in the U.S. under to his “America first” agenda also benefits the rest of the world. Trump told the World Economic […]
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In Burger King ad, net neutrality is a Whopper
Burger King has a new ad that takes a jab at net neutrality, showing customers being told they will be charged different prices for a Whopper, depending on how fast they want it.
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Bill would forbid schools from denying lunch to students who can’t pay
Maine schools would not be permitted to deny a meal to any student – even if that student doesn’t have lunch money – under a bill endorsed 8-3 Thursday by lawmakers on the Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs. “This is a win,” said Sen. Shenna Bellows, D-Manchester, who co-sponsored L.D. 1684. “If a […]
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Donald Trump denies report he ordered Mueller's firing before backing down
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump demanded the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June but backed down after White House lawyer Don McGahn threatened to resign, according to a New York Times report that Trump quickly dismissed Friday as “fake news.” The newspaper reported that Trump demanded Mueller’s firing just weeks after the […]
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Democrats lacking resolution
Democrats generally always cave in during negotiations with the Republicans. As a Democrat, I’m mad. Democrats under the leadership of Sen. Charles Schumer caved in to Republicans on the government shutdown on a promise of negotiating a DACA agreement in three weeks. They simply threw in their negotiating chip. Last week, Schumer had a deal […]