Last week, Dean Scontras – unsuccessful Republican primary candidate for CD-1 in 2008 and the man behind The Republican Project – let it slip he is forming an exploratory committee for another run at Maine’s …
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Late last week, news broke that the state budget gap is now expected to exceed $400 million.
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Governor Baldacci is reportedly refusing to raise taxes to plug the budget hole – instead he has begun to … -
Last night, the United States Senate held a key procedural vote to begin consideration of Harry Reid’s healthcare reform bill, and both of Maine’s Senators voted against consideration of the bill.
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The final tally was directly … -
Hey, it’s Friday, it is a slow news week – why not, right?
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National Geographic seems to be getting on board with that whole “Al Franken draws the United States” shtick – they asked members of … -
This is a question that I have been giving a great deal of thought over the course of the last couple weeks.
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I have argued – more than once – that I felt Maine was a … -
The Republican Governor’s Association is meeting this week in Austin, Texas, and the attendees have a visitor – Matt Jacobson of Maine.
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The Republican gubernatorial candidate is in Austin, schmoozing with the RGA, meeting the nation’s … -
Recovery.gov has started posting detailed accounts of stimulus money, and how it has been spent. We are now able to go to the site and view the amount of money spent and the number of …
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UPDATE: Verified.
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This is completely unverified, but I am hearing buzz from multiple sources that tomorrow current Commissioner for the Department of Economic and Community Development, John Richardson, will be making his official announcement that he … -
Independent candidate Eliot Cutler is today calling on key legislators to enact charter schools in the state of Maine.
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Cutler has sent emails to Senator Bill Diamond and Representative Emily Cain (the chairs of the legislature’s … -
On Tuesday, Public Policy Polling came out with a set of extended numbers showing Olympia Snowe with a dramatic base problem in Maine.
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Facing a national mood which is turning decidedly anti-establishment and anti-incumbent, and also …