LePage says cutting the Electoral College would mean there is never another presidential candidate from small states like “Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, Montana, Rhode Island.”
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To fight cancer, Maine may allow students to use sunscreen in school
Bill would drop requirement that students bring a permission slip before possessing or using sunscreen.
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Jared Golden provides ‘road map’ to his health care agenda
Democratic lawmaker calls for Medicare For All but offers ideas that may prove easier to pass.
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Jared Golden opposes Democratic bid to expand gun background checks
Maine Democrat says his district voted against same idea at the polls in 2016.
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Federal appeals court upholds AT&T’s Time Warner merger
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court upheld AT&T’s $85 billion merger with Time Warner on Tuesday, handing the telecom giant a major victory in its months-long legal battle against Justice Department regulators who had alleged the deal was anti-competitive. The outcome is a major defeat for the Justice Department’s top antitrust chief, Makan Delrahim, who […]
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Big welcome in Hanoi for Trump, Kim and new nuclear talks
After long journeys to Vietnam, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are in place for their second summit Wednesday
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The Mueller report already has been revealed through court records
As special counsel Robert Mueller may have been making his final report public gradually through court filings
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Meet Pender Makin and what she wants to do for schools
Her top goal: ‘Reinvigorate public trust in the Department of Education’
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Caught between Trump and the left, Democrats seek to avoid socialism squeeze
The presidential candidates are tussling over how far left to move policies, as Republicans take aim at their most liberal proposals.
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Calls for socialism during WWI were met with resistance in Maine
A glimpse of the climate of opinion faced by Maine radical voices during World War I and the ‘Red Scare.’