Tag: Maine

Gov. Paul LePage speaks at the Republican Convention, Saturday, May 5, 2018, in Augusta, Maine.

Beltway Confidential

Liberals sue Gov. Paul LePage for protecting them from fiscal disaster

Sally Pipes · May 17, 2018 4:42 pm

President Donald Trump applauds during an event about prescription drug prices with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 11, 2018.

7 governors support Trump’s nomination for Nobel Peace Prize

Melissa Quinn · May 15, 2018 3:28 pm

Newsprint runs through the printing cylinders of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. newspaper press at the Washington Post newspaper production facility in Springfield, Virginia, U.S., on Friday, July 12, 2013. The Washington Post began publishing on Thursday, Dec. 6, 1877 and had a circulation of 10,000. The newspaper contained four pages and cost three cents a copy.

Bipartisan Senate bill calls for halt on newsprint tariff

Susan Ferrechio · May 14, 2018 9:50 pm

Will Maine Elect Its First Female Governor?

Alice B. Lloyd · May 10, 2018 5:06 pm

Idaho group says it has enough signatures to put Medicaid expansion on ballot

Robert King · April 30, 2018 6:22 pm

Mainers for Health Care rally outside the State House prior to Gov. Paul LePage's address. The coalition that supported the successful Yes on 2 campaign to expand Medicaid in 2017 say LePage and his allies in the Legislature are trying to block Medicaid expansion, which is now state law.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage sued for blocking Medicaid expansion

Kimberly Leonard · April 30, 2018 4:29 pm

Accused killer of Maine police officer captured after 4-day manhunt

Kimberly Leonard · April 28, 2018 8:14 pm

Maine Gov. Paul LePage plans to veto marijuana bill

Robert King · April 16, 2018 6:34 pm

Workers work on a building under construction in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Aug. 16, 2013. California's unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.7 percent in July, the first rise in unemployment since the spring of 2011. Construction lost 7,000 jobs with mining, logging and government employment also dropping in July.

Four states hit record low unemployment in February

Joseph Lawler · March 23, 2018 3:04 pm

David Hogg, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, inspired a Democrat in Maine to run against an unopposed Repubican for a seat in the statehouse after the Republican insulted survivors of February's school shooting in Florida.

Maine Republican gets Democrat challenger after he insults Florida shooting survivors

Katelyn Caralle · March 16, 2018 7:51 am

On Nov. 7, 2017, CMS Administrator Seema Verma spoke before the National Association of Medicaid Directors and announced steps the Trump administration was taking to modernize and improve the Medicaid program through Section 1115 Demonstration Waivers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Medicaid work requirements will make us healthy, wealthy, and wise

Elizabeth Wright · March 7, 2018 6:45 pm

"We don't live in a static universe," Angus King said. "You can't make a change of this significance and assume that nothing else is going to happen as a result." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Angus King: Trump doesn’t understand what he’s doing with steel and aluminum tariffs

Kyle Feldscher · March 4, 2018 5:05 pm