AUGUSTA — Two Republican lawmakers want the state to investigate Healthy Maine Partnership’s finances. According to Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Rep. Jeffrey Timberlake of Turner and Sen. Garrett Mason of Lisbon Falls want the Government Oversight Committee to conduct a formal review. Healthy Maine Partnerships is a network of community health organizations throughout the state that addresses […]
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Five takeaways from the Republican debate
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Celebrity real estate mogul Donald Trump and 10 more Republican candidates for president met at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for the party’s second prime-time debate. Five takeaways from Wednesday night’s debate: Fiorina’s dominant presence Carly Fiorina wasn’t even supposed to be on stage and yet in many ways she dominated […]
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How the Republican candidates did during the GOP debate
SIMI VALLEY, California — Here’s a look at how the eleven Republican candidates for president participating in the main-event debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California fared on Wednesday night. DONALD TRUMP The clear target of many of his rivals. Also challenged by the debate’s moderators to demonstrate proficiency on foreign policy […]
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Republican debate goes beyond Donald Trump, puts issues out front
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Amid the back-and-forth bickering over Donald Trump, the Republican presidential contest took a substantive and serious turn in Wednesday’s prime-time debate, with candidates wrangling over immigration, gay marriage and foreign affairs. The policy shift quieted Trump, the brash billionaire who has roiled the GOP field, for long stretches during the debate […]
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Paul LePage wants to limit SNAP recipients to $5,000 in assets
Poll: Should Maine deny food stamps to applicants with more than $5,000 in assets? AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has announced new rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. LePage’s administration said any person applying for SNAP benefits would be ineligible if they had more than $5,000 in personal assets. […]
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Tom Brady endorses Donald Trump for president
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw his support behind presidential candidate Donald Trump Wednesday, hours before the second Republican debate. The Super Bowl MVP, whose four-game suspension for using deflated footballs was recently overturned by a judge, says he thinks his golf partner can win. “I hope so,” he said. “It […]
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Poll: Should Maine deny food stamps to applicants with more than $5,000 in assets?
Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule that any person applying for SNAP benefits would be ineligible if they had more than $5,000 in personal assets. But advocates for the poor said Wednesday the proposal wasn’t real welfare reform but more of the same from Gov. Paul LePage’s administration. Should Maine deny […]
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Retired teacher running for Auburn School Committee as write-in
AUBURN — Pamela Stowe has announced she is a write-in candidate for the Ward 1 seat on the School Committee. Stowe is a retired gifted and talented teacher. Her career was split between southern Maine and Tuscon, Ariz. She graduated from the University of Maine and Endicott College for Women in Beverly, Mass. She is the […]
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George Mitchell backs Iran nuclear deal at Lewiston Public Library
LEWISTON — The road to real peace is long and winding, but it always beats the alternative. While former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, an iconic Maine Democrat and global peacemaker, didn’t put it quite like that, his message to a group of about 150 gathered Tuesday could be easily summed up that way. Mitchell, who […]
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Rep. Bruce Poliquin gets heat after GE threatens to move jobs
BANGOR, Maine — General Electric Co. said Tuesday that work supporting 500 American jobs, including 80 in Bangor, could be offshored, citing Congress’ decision to let funding for the U.S. Export-Import Bank lapse earlier this year. It made for political hay in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, where Democrats criticized U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and other Republicans for […]