Tag Archives: Maine

Bangor’s ABC affiliate reports: Former Republican governor Paul LePage is running for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission. LePage led the state from 2011 through 2019. During his reelection bid in 2014, LePage was voted back to the Blaine House with the most votes of any governor in Maine history. In 2022, however, …

CBS News reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is filing a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education for “discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports” in what she alleged is a violation of Title IX. “The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports,” …

The Portland Press Herald reports: Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration Monday challenging the USDA’s decision to withhold federal funds over Maine’s policy allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls high school sports. Frey’s office said funds withheld by the administration are used to feed children in schools, child care centers and after-school programming, …

Reuters reports: The USDA has suspended funding for research and programs at the University of Maine, the school said on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump clashed with Governor Janet Mills over the state’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from girls’ sports. In an email received by the University of Maine, the USDA’s chief financial officer ordered all payments paused while …

The Bangor Daily News reports: The Aroostook County man who was killed by police late Monday following an hours-long standoff — in which he allegedly shot an officer and a police dog while holding his 4-week-old child captive — appeared to post a video on social media during the ordeal, in which he could be seen holding a rifle with …

CBS News reports: An earthquake felt in Boston, Massachusetts today was centered in York Harbor, Maine according to the United States Geological Survey. It was also felt in New Hampshire and Rhode Island, a USGS map showed. The depth of the earthquake was more than 8 miles underground, according to the USGS. There was no tsunami threat to New England, …

The New York Times reports: Representative Jared Golden, a three-term Democrat from Maine, has defeated his Republican challenger, Austin Theriault, a former NASCAR driver and northern Maine native, The Associated Press declared on Friday. Mr. Golden’s narrow victory in his largely white, rural and working-class district — one of five Democratic-held districts that Donald J. Trump won in 2020 — …

The Washington Examiner reports: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) plans to run for a sixth term in the Senate, buoying Republicans’ hopes of retaining her seat in 2026. Collins would be one of the most vulnerable incumbents heading into a less favorable Senate map for Republicans next cycle. She could also face political headwinds with President-elect Donald Trump returning to the …

Maine Public Radio reports: Second District Congressman Jared Golden said he has unanswered questions about President Biden’s ability to continue to lead the country for another four years. But unlike some other Democrats, Golden isn’t calling on Biden to step aside from the 2024 presidential campaign. Golden made headlines last week when he published an op-ed in the Bangor Daily …

Rep. Jared Golden writes for the Bangor Daily News: After the first presidential debate, lots of Democrats are panicking about whether President Joe Biden should step down as the party’s nominee. Biden’s poor performance in the debate was not a surprise. It also didn’t rattle me as it has others, because the outcome of this election has been clear to …

NewsNation reports: The state of Maine is asking people to submit designs for a new state flag, with the winner being put up for a vote in November. The contest is part of an effort to create a more distinctive look for the state flag. Maine’s current flag shows the state’s seal, which depicts a man standing on each side …

The Associated Press reports: Maine’s Democratic governor has signed a bill designed to protect providers of abortion and gender-affirming care from legal action brought by other states. Gov. Janet Mills signed the proposal after the Democratic-controlled Maine Legislature approved it earlier in the month. The state joins more than a dozen others that protect medical providers from out-of-state investigations about …

News Center Maine reports: Maine on Monday became the latest state to join an effort to elect the president by a national popular vote. State lawmakers recently passed a bill to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and Gov. Janet Mills on Monday announced she will allow the bill to become law without her signature. Maine became the 18th …

News Center Maine reports: Fiery debate over a bill to protect health care workers who provide abortion and gender-affirming care from out-of-state lawsuits crossed a line in the Maine House, leading lawmakers to formally censure a pair of colleagues on Thursday. Rep. Michael Lemelin, R-Chelsea, said the mass shooting last October in Lewiston, Maine, that claimed 18 lives and recent …

The Portland Press-Herald reports: A proposed ban on paramilitary activity that was inspired by a planned neo-Nazi training camp in a rural northern Maine narrowly won approval in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The bill that would ban paramilitary activity intended to create public disturbances or violence now heads to the Senate for final legislative approval. The Senate previously …

The New York Times reports: A commission investigating the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, concluded on Friday that local law enforcement officers should have taken the gunman, Robert Card Jr., into custody and seized his weapons before he killed 18 people on Oct. 25. The decision to instead give Mr. Card’s family responsibility for removing his weapons was “an abdication …

The Hill reports: Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee and a key figure in getting bills passed through Congress, says she will not endorse former President Trump, even if he becomes the Republican Party’s nominee for president. Asked if she could see herself endorsing Trump if he wins the nomination, Collins replied: “I do …

ABC News reports: Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on Friday asked the state’s highest appeals court to consider her decision to bar former President Donald Trump off of Maine’s GOP primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the Colorado 14th Amendment case disqualifying Trump. In a news release, Bellows …

The Kennebec Journal reports: A Maine judge issued an order Wednesday to put Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ [photo] decision to exclude Donald Trump from presidential primary ballots on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a similar case out of Colorado. Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy remanded the case to Bellows and ordered her to await the …

The Washington Post reports: Donald Trump asked a court Tuesday to reverse an attempt by Maine’s secretary of state to keep his name off the state’s primary ballot after she determined he was an insurrectionist who is ineligible to hold the presidency again under the Constitution. Trump filed his appeal to Kennebec Superior Court five days after Secretary of State …