AUBURN — Retired banker and Maine Turnpike Authority board member Bob Stone announced Sunday his plans to seek the Ward 2 City Council seat. Stone, of Harrison Circle, said the city deserves strong leadership. “I feel I have the knowledge and oversight experience in government operations and public finance to help city management and employees […]
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Maine lawmakers wait for likely veto of state budget
UPDATED 11:41 A.M.: AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine lawmakers are awaiting Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s likely veto of the state budget less than two days before the July 1 deadline. LePage has until midnight to veto the $6.7 billion budget and is widely expected to do so. He already vetoed 64 lines in the two-year spending […]
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Saviello requests investigation of Paul LePage’s role in Eves firing
AUGUSTA — Republican Sen. Tom Saviello of Wilton has filed a formal request for an independent, nonpartisan investigation of Gov. Paul LePage’s interference in Good Will-Hinckley’s selection of Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves as its new president. Saviello made the request in a letter delivered Monday to the Government Oversight Committee. In the letter, he asked […]
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Some Republican lawmakers frustrated with Paul LePage
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s bombastic leadership style long ago alienated Democrats. Now even some in his own party are fed up, saying his high-profile antics have squandered his political capital. Critics say his decision to retreat to his office and issue a flurry of vetoes shows a lack of leadership and that his […]
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Maine House leaders urge members to focus on state budget
AUGUSTA — House Democratic leaders on Friday urged members of their caucus to stay focused on the state budget before delving deeper into recent actions by Republican Gov. Paul LePage that have some lawmakers calling for impeachment. House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe, D-Skowhegan, said that while he and other lawmakers were deeply concerned about recent […]
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Mark Eves’ lawyer expects to file suit against Paul LePage in July
The attorney for Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves expects to file a lawsuit against Gov. Paul LePage as early as July, alleging the governor illegally retaliated against Eves by threatening to withhold state funding from his employer, Good Will-Hinckley. Eves and the nonprofit organization, which includes the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences charter school in […]
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Angus King is fine after prostate surgery; his jokes aren’t
WASHINGTON — Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine says he’s successfully undergone prostate cancer surgery. King made the announcement in a statement from his wife, Mary Herman. Herman said that her husband is feeling fine after the surgery Friday and eager to return to work — apart from being a bit sore and “boring us […]
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Source: LePage halted $100K payment to Good Will-Hinckley when Eves hired
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage reversed a routine and state-approved payment to a Fairfield nonprofit that operates a charter school the day it was announced that Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves was named president of the organization, according to a source inside state government. This is the latest development in a conflict that became public […]
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Gov. LeRage: Paul LePage says area lawmakers, cartoonist should be shot
AUGUSTA — A top advocate for expanding passenger rail to Lewiston-Auburn said Thursday that Republican Gov. Paul LePage said state lawmakers from Lewiston should be “rounded up and executed in the public square.” Tony Donovan, a Portland-based real estate developer and member of the executive council for the Sierra Club Maine, said LePage made the […]
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Mark Eves vs. Paul LePage feud may be politics as usual
AUGUSTA — With House Speaker Mark Eves fired before he started work as leader of Good Will-Hinckley School after Gov. Paul LePage threatened to pull more than $500,000 in annual state funding to his new employer, the bad blood in Augusta has gotten deeper than the flood stage it was at during recent squabbles over […]