With Election Day approaching, Democrat Matt Dunlap is making his case for a different direction for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District as he takes on former Republican Gov. Paul LePage. This week on the podcast, Dunlap shares his plans to make healthcare and housing more affordable, protect Medicaid, strengthen unions and challenge Pres. Donald Trump’s agenda.…
Sen. Susan Collins struggled to name a time when her opposition to Pres. Donald Trump had changed the outcome of a vote during Thursday night’s fourth and final debate with Democrat Troy Jackson, who argued that the Republican senator’s claims of independence haven’t translated into meaningful resistance to the president’s agenda. Asked by a moderator…
Faith leaders, community organizers and elected officials gathered in Lewiston Wednesday to defend voting rights and push back against voter intimidation as part of a nationwide bus tour encouraging Americans to participate in the November election. “The vote is sacred, and voting is more than just a civic duty,” said Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill, executive…
I think everybody, regardless of political affiliation, is getting fed up with the dark money ads in Maine’s U.S. Senate race. Most of the spending on these ads are coming from the pro-Collins side, which is vastly outspending Democratic candidate Troy Jackson. Elon Musk, private equity billionaires and Palantir are attempting to buy Sen. Susan…
Attention Cumberland County voters: Stephanie Anderson, candidate for District Attorney, is not who she wants you to think she is. For 28 years, Stephanie Anderson served as the DA for Cumberland County. For all of those 28 years, she was a Republican. After she retired in 2018, she ran for the state senate as a…
Mainers were able to begin casting their ballots in person Monday, kicking off nearly four weeks of early voting ahead of a Nov. 3 election. More than 70,000 Mainers have already requested absentee ballots as of Friday, said Secretary of State Shenna Bellows. “We’re shaping up to have yet another great year,” Bellows said, pointing…
Former Gov. Paul LePage rejected expanding Medicaid even if it would help more Mainers get health insurance, proposed deportations as a response to Maine’s housing shortage and dismissed congressional limits on ICE during Thursday’s debate against Democrat Matt Dunlap. LePage, the Republican candidate for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, said he would not support expanding Medicaid…
Paul LePage is running for office in Maine again. So we’re revisiting our 2022 podcast series examining his record as governor — and the impacts his policies still have today. For our fourth and final episode: how LePage stood in the way of climate action, fought renewable energy and sided with the fossil fuel industry…
Maine patients and providers joined advocates Wednesday in Bangor to highlight former governor and Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Paul LePage’s history on health care. “We’ve heard this story before, and we know how it ends,” said Ryan Tipping of the Maine Center for Economic Policy. “By the time [LePage] left office, 3,600 fewer Maine…
A coalition of medical professionals, service providers and community leaders launched a campaign Wednesday opposing a Lewiston ballot measure that would place new restrictions on the city’s syringe service program Dr. Paul Vinsel, a recently retired addiction medicine physician, said programs like Lewiston’s are essential. “As a CMMC emergency department physician and throughout my career,…