Tag Archives: Margaret Chase Smith
Angus King’s challengers are clamoring for attention, but history is working against them
New report on Maine’s fiscal state could renew old fights over social service spending
A deep and weedy annual report on state government’s fiscal health claims some continuing points of contention within the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.
Nibble on these Maine political morsels before the big meal
CIA file labels Margaret Chase Smith ‘thin-skinned.’ James Stewart might have agreed.
Good morning from Augusta, where my attention last night was on rooting out a Maine connection in 12 million pages of declassified documents posted online yesterday by the CIA. The best find? A 1958 file in which the agency smack-talks iconic Maine U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith and mentions the late Republican’s opposition to a military promotion for legendary actor […]