Tag Archives: Seth Berry
Maine candidates pounce to score points from ranked-choice voting chaos
The first big State House fight of 2018 could pit politicians against petitioners
Susan Collins wants to talk housing, but there’s far more interest in her vote on Obamacare repeal
Good morning from Augusta. All eyes are on Republicans’ Affordable Care Act repeal bill, with an undecided U.S. Sen. Susan Collins facing protesters today and a leaked federal government estimate contradicting others to say Maine could gain under it. Collins could face some protesters around a speech today in Portland. She is scheduled to make […]
Maine Legislature returns to decide on $200M bond package, vetoed bills
The halls of the State House are brimming again with the Legislature back in town for one of its final sessions of 2017. Those hallowed halls have been relatively quiet since the bruising state budget battle ended early July 4. Today’s session will focus mostly on procedural matters, though some of the items on the […]
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 […]
Roundup: GOP fields full slate of House candidates, CDC whistle-blower wins award
For the first time in almost a decade, the Maine Republican Party is fielding a full slate of candidates in the House of Representatives, the party announced on Monday.