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Maine Gubernatorial Debate – Moody pressed by audience member on student loan debt
Maine Gubernatorial candidate Shawn Moody heckled from the audience for not answering a question precisely on what state resources he would deploy to help lower student debt in Maine. The debate was held on October, 10, 2018 at the University of New England in Portland, Maine…
Maine Gubernatorial Debate – Candidates on Opioid Crisis
Maine Gubernatorial debate sponsored by Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce
Published by News Center Maine on Wed, 03 Oct 2018
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Moody & Mills on Climate Change
Maine gubernatorial candidates Shawn Moody and Janet Mills spar on the question about climate change during a debate held October 10, 2018 at the University of New England in Portland, Maine.…
Independent Alan Caron drops out, endorses Mills
Published by NEWS CENTER Maine on Mon, 29 Oct 2018…
Mayhew brings Maine failures to Washington
Under her tenure as health commissioner, poor Mainers suffered. Now the Trump administration wants to do the same nationwide..
Students elect Moody for governor in 2018 Mock Election
Students from 62 Maine schools chose Shawn Moody to be Maine’s next governor in Student Mock Election results tallied today in Augusta…
Governor LePage Will Appeal Mills Lawsuit to Supreme Court
October 22, 2018
Governor Paul R. LePage announced today that he will appeal Friday’s decision by Justice Michaela Murphy in his lawsuit asking the Superior Court to find that the Attorney General exceeded her authority by bringing a federal suit in a different state on behalf of the people of Maine without being directed to do so by the Governor or Legislature…
The Vote After the Vote: Maine’s ‘Death With Dignity’ group to collect signatures on Election Day
The Wiscasset-based “Death With Dignity” group is renewing their efforts to place an assisted-suicide measure on the 2019 ballot…
Maine leaders speak out against political threats
Maine’s congressional delegation is forcefully denouncing pipe bombs and suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats…
Collins returns to hometown for Agency on Aging conference
CARIBOU, Maine — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins returned to her hometown Friday to deliver a keynote address during the Aroostook Agency on Aging’s 45th annual meeting at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center…
Maine Democratic Party overstates Poliquin’s plans
What’s the difference between a trim, a cut or a jagged, painful gutting? The Maine Democratic Party prompts such a question, thanks to a mailer it sent to homes in much of the state. It accuses Bruce Poliquin, the incumbent Republican in Maine’s expansive 2nd Congressional District, of “voting to gut your retirement benefits.”
On truth and ‘lies’ in Maine’s heated 2nd District race
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine’s 2nd District and Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden squabbled in their first debate early this month over who was the biggest liar and that fight has sustained itself on the airwaves…
‘No decision’ yet by Alan Caron on whether to exit governor’s race
Polling in the single digits, the independent candidate is under rising pressure to honor a pledge he made in March to withdraw if victory became unlikely.