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DEMOCRATS ISSUE STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR’S SHORTFALL

Posted: January 14, 2014

AUGUSTA—Top Democratic lawmakers released the following statements in response to Governor Paul LePage’s release of a $119 million shortfall in...

DEMOCRATS CALL ON GOVERNOR TO HELP SOLVE STATE’S BUDGET PROBLEM

Posted: January 10, 2014

Escalating mismanagement at DHHS leaves more than $100 million budget hole AUGUSTA—Top Democratic lawmakers today called on Governor Paul LePage...

MPBN: Jackson: End Maine's Contract with Embattled MaineCare Rides Provider

Posted: January 10, 2014

By AJ Higgins Read more here   The state department of Health and Human Services has decided that it will not renew contracts with an...

MAINERS SHARE PROBLEMS WITH FLAWED MAINECARE RIDES SYSTEM

Posted: January 09, 2014

Health and Human Services Committee considers two bills to find solution AUGUSTA---For more than two and a half hours, members of the public...

LAWMAKERS CONSIDER MEASURES TO FIX TROUBLED MAINECARE RIDES

Posted: January 09, 2014

Two Measures Considered by the Health and Human Services Committee AUGUSTA---The Health and Human Services Committee will be holding public hearings...

LePage’s Blue Ribbon Commission Finds No Bias in Employment Hearing Cases

Posted: December 10, 2013

Report does not address Governor’s intimidation of hearing officers   AUGUSTA --- Maine’s unemployment hearing officers show “no direct...

DEMS CALL FOR END OF FLOUNDERING MAINECARE RIDE CONTRACTS

Posted: November 21, 2013

New measure proposes terminating broker contractsAUGUSTA—This morning, Democratic leaders gave full backing to a new measure to revoke the LePage...

MPBN: Maine to Pay Conservative Consultant $1M for Medicaid Study

Posted: November 20, 2013

The LePage administration has agreed to pay a conservative welfare consultant nearly $1 million to do a comprehensive review of the state's Medicaid...

DEMOCRATIC LEADERS ENCOURAGE VOLK TO APPEAL BILL

Posted: November 07, 2013

Leaders support merits of bill and say Volk is making a “good case” AUGUSTA – Today, Senate Democratic leaders released the following...

Down East: The Politics of Logging

Posted: October 31, 2013

By Edgar Allen Beem Read more here Canadian loggers have been working in Maine’s North Woods since the nineteenth century, and Maine woodsmen...