Periscope video by Scott Thistle, State Politics Editor LEWISTON — Gov. Paul LePage addressed the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce at its Connecting with the Community breakfast Thursday at the Ramada Inn and Conference Center. This story will be updated.
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Gov. Paul LePage plans to act as state education commissioner
Periscope video by Scott Thistle, State Politics Editor LEWISTON — Republican Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday he would forgo the state’s official nomination process in selecting a new commissioner for the Department of Education and take on the role himself. LePage said acting Commissioner William Beardsley will remain in place for the remainder of the […]
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Maine medical marijuana bill allows for lab testing and hospital access
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that would give immunity from state law to hospitals that allow nonsmoking marijuana for patients who need it. The bill, LD 726, also defines in law what incidental marijuana is, including nonflowering plants or plant byproducts that have not yet been processed into medicinal products. […]
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Carly Fiorina drops out of Republican race for president
Data curated by InsideGov Data curated by InsideGov COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here’s the latest on the 2016 presidential race as Republican and Democratic candidates head from New Hampshire to South Carolina and beyond. All times local: UPDATED 3:12 p.m.: Carly Fiorina is dropping out of the 2016 Republican presidential race. The former technology executive announced […]
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Federal rules recognize software as drivers of driverless cars
If you hop into one of Google’s pod-like self-driving cars, you won’t be considered the driver, according to a letter sent to Google by federal transportation officials. Instead, the law will treat the car’s software as the driver. “We agree with Google its (self-driving vehicle) will not have a ‘driver’ in the traditional sense that […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says Maine will privatize ASPIRE program
FARMINGDALE — Gov. Paul LePage said Tuesday during his weekly town meeting tour that he is moving forward with the privatization of the state’s ASPIRE program because Maine is failing to meet federal work requirements for the program’s participants. The move would eliminate about 70 state jobs. ASPIRE is a welfare-to-work program that is linked […]
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Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders ride voter frustration to huge N.H. victories
Data curated by InsideGov Data curated by InsideGov MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders rode a wave of voter frustration with American politics to commanding victories in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, adding crucial credibility to their upstart candidacies. Sanders swept majorities of men, women, independents and young people in his […]
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Legislature sidestepped records law in shutting down public access to oil train data
After a runaway oil train killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, just miles from the Maine border in 2013, Mainers demanded to know more about the railways here. How much oil was moving through Maine? Which companies shipped it and along what routes? Was the government doing enough to keep communities safe? At about the […]
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Legislature split on conforming state and federal tax code
AUGUSTA — House Republicans on Tuesday promoted an action by Democratic President Barack Obama as they urged their Democratic colleagues in the Legislature to make permanent in state law a set of income tax breaks that mirror those signed into federal law by Obama in 2015. But a bill extending those breaks to businesses and […]
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President Obama submits $4.1 trillion budget
Data curated by InsideGov WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sent Congress his final budget on Tuesday, proposing to spend a record $4.1 trillion on a number of initiatives, from a new war on cancer to combating global warming to fighting growing threats from Islamic State militants. The spending plan, for the budget year that begins […]