Maine’s 1st District U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has filed her financial disclosure report for 2014, nearly four months after the original May 15 deadline. Pingree, a Democrat, filed the report Tuesday but excluded any financial information about her billionaire husband and Wall Street hedge fund manager, S. Donald Sussman, also announcing she and Sussman were […]
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Health care accreditation group gives Riverview high marks
AUGUSTA — The Riverview Psychiatric Center received high marks in a survey by a national health care accreditation group, underscoring progress made at the hospital after it lost federal certification when an inspection uncovered problems, Maine Department of Health and Human Services officials said. The report last week from the Joint Commission, a leading national health […]
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Sen. Susan Collins to vote against Iran nuclear deal
AUGUSTA — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins ended weeks of speculation about whether she supports the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday when she presented a floor speech against it. Collins has been mum about how she’d vote on the deal since it was announced earlier this summer. For a time, her position was seen as crucial […]
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Chellie Pingree, Donald Sussman to split up
AUGUSTA — Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, said on Tuesday that she and her husband, Donald Sussman, have separated and plan to get a divorce. “It is a very amicable and truly mutual decision,” said Pingree in a written statement to the Bangor Daily News. “It is sad for both of us, but we continue to […]
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Beverly Daggett, 1st female president of Maine Senate, dies
AUGUSTA — Beverly Daggett of Augusta, a former legislator who was the first woman to serve as Maine Senate president, has died. She was 69. The Knowlton and Hewins Funeral Home in Augusta confirmed Daggett died Sunday in Lewiston. Daggett was first elected to the Maine Senate in 1996 after serving five terms representing Augusta […]
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Bureau of Motor Vehicles stops mobile units in Wiscasset, York County
AUGUSTA — The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles is discontinuing its mobile units in Wiscasset and York as part of a realignment of services. The BMV’s mobile units consist of two staff members who travel monthly to 22 sites around Maine that don’t have a bureau office. The units can process driver’s licenses and identification […]
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OPEGA: Paul LePage, DOE threatened Good Will-Hinckley funding
AUGUSTA — A long-awaited report on how Gov. Paul LePage and the Maine Department of Education interfered in an employment contract between Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves and Good Will-Hinckley has found strong evidence that LePage took steps to withdraw state funding for a charter school for at-risk students. The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee received the […]
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Local vet center counseling, leadership jobs unfilled
LEWISTON — A shortage of mental health counselors at the Veteran Center in Lewiston has Maine’s U.S. Congressional delegation pushing for answers and Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald warning that a desperate, untreated veteran might act violently. As a measure of the problem, veterans and counselors say the local center has been without a team leader […]
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Lewiston ballot shows five-way race for mayor, most council seats contested
LEWISTON — With five people seeking the mayor’s chair and challengers for five of seven seats on the City Council, Lewiston’s municipal ballot will be full. Friday was the last day candidates for city office could pass nominating petitions to confirm a spot on the fall ballot. Voters go to the polls Nov. 3 for […]
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Maine’s Pingree blows past second deadline for financial disclosure in Washington
Maine’s 1st District U.S. congresswoman, Democrat Chellie Pingree, has twice missed a deadline to file a disclosure of her personal finances for 2014 with the clerk of the U.S. House. Pingree sought and was granted an extension to the May 15 deadline in April, but she missed her new Aug. 15 deadline and is one […]