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Rules Of The Road Get Stricter For Teen Drivers In Maineby Rob Poindexter – April 24th 2012 09:50pm – Read more Local News Augusta - Governor LePage also signed a new law tightening the restrictions on teen drivers. Fines will skyrocket up to $500 for repeat offenders driving on a provisional license and suspensions will be much longer. “I think this will get their attention,”...
Bangor Daily News | Out of the veto morassEDITORIALS Out of the veto morass Posted April 23, 2012, at 6:09 p.m. Pat Wellenbach | AP Paul LePage Legislative leaders and Gov. Paul LePage have gotten themselves into a bad place. For fear of angering the governor, Republican lawmakers took a secret vote to uphold his veto of a couple of budget items. This has made them...
Portsmouth Herald | Republican lawmakers seem afraid of LePagePortsmouth Herald/Seacoast Online Opinion: Gov. Paul LePage got his way one more time last week — with the Republicans one more time giving in to him and reversing a previous vote. On April 14, LePage exercised his right to a line-item veto, the first governor ever to do so, by striking down funding for general...
Legislative sentiment for Ray BroomhallAUGUSTA — On April 6 in the Maine Legislature, a Legislative sentiment was made on behalf of Ray Broomhall for his retirement after 50 active years with the Mexico Fire Department. The sentiment was sponsored by Dist. 93 Rep. Sheryl Briggs of Mexico and cosponsored by State Sen. John Patrick of Oxford. Briggs said, “The...
Dems urge “jobs bond” for economic shot in the armFiscal reports show debt service payments decline by $30 million over three years, capacity for borrowing set to increase AUGUSTA — Democratic state lawmakers on the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee expressed strong support for a jobs bond package today following a briefing from fiscal experts on the state’s capacity to bond. “A jobs bond...
MPBN | Gov. Paul LePage Signed the Supplemental State Budget04/24/2012 Reported By: Mal Leary Gov. Paul LePage has signed the supplemental state budget he had vowed not to support. The Governor says he wants to move forward with a new effort to make further cuts in the State’s Medicaid program, and make significant structural budget changes that will reduce state spending in future years. Gov....
Bangor Daily News | Line-item SurrenderBangor Daily News EDITORIALS Line-item surrender Robert F. Bukaty | AP Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference in December 2011, at the State House in Augusta. Before Saturday, no Maine governor had used the line-item veto authority given to the state’s chief executive in 1995. So it is understandable that there is confusion...
Sun Journal | GOP leadership actions puzzlingColumns & Analysis | Sunday, April 22, 2012 Doug Rooks GOP leadership actions puzzling Republican legislative leaders are doubtless feeling between a rock and a hard place, but they’ve put themselves there. Gov. Paul LePage posed a dilemma for the GOP when, after saying he wouldn’t sign a supplemental budget lawmakers passed overwhelmingly just before leaving...
Portland Press Herald | Republicans Fail to Honor Their WordOur View: Republicans fail to honor their word Corrected on Monday, April 23:An editorial on Page E2 Sunday mischaracterized Republican senators’ transparency in letting stand Gov. LePage’s line-item vetoes. Senate Republican leaders have released the results of a poll, indicating which senators did not want to return to session to address the vetoes of a...
Weekly Radio Address: Partisan line-item veto will hurt property taxpayersDemocratic Weekly Radio Address: Rep. Cain Good morning, I am State Rep. Emily Cain of Orono, the House Democratic Leader. Thank you for tuning in. This week, Governor Paul LePage took the unprecedented step of issuing a line-item veto to changes made to the state’s two-year budget. The governor vetoed funding for...
BDN | Budget committee resumes work next week — will bipartisanship continue?Source: By Eric Russell, Bangor Daily News, April 20, 2012 AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage put general assistance in the spotlight when he used his line-item veto power last Saturday to eliminate some of the program’s funding in the 2013 budget. When the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee goes back to work next week, general assistance no...
Democrats ask for list of Republican flip-floppersFOAA request for Republican poll results Today Senate and House Democratic leadership issued a letter to their Republican counterparts requesting, under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act, a copy of the Republican caucus polling results initiated from the Democrats’ request to reconvene the Legislature to consider and respond to the Governor LePage’s line-item veto of the supplemental...
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