Fifteen-year-old Caroline Jacobs of Shapleigh lobbied in Washington this summer for federal regulators to allow at-home trials of an artificial pancreas that could improve the lives of Jacobs and other Type 1 diabetes patients. Now the freshman at The New School in Kennebunk is hoping to move from teen lobbyist to test patient with the […]

The proposal, which would be funded by raising taxes on millionaires, is expected to fail.

But Susan Collins says that hinges on how it’s paid for, and Olympia Snowe sees only a small economic impact.

Unemployment benefits and a Social Security payroll tax cut set to expire at the end of the year should be extended, Maine lawmakers said last week. “If they aren’t extended, 6,100 people in Maine alone (in January) would lose their unemployment benefits and thousands more would have less from their paychecks to spend at local […]

The announcement by Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts last week that he will support President Obama’s nominee to lead a new consumer protection bureau gave the administration hope that other moderate Senate Republicans might follow suit. But GOP Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine so far aren’t budging. Collins will meet next week […]

The letter seeks a ‘balanced approach’ to reducing the deficit, with a mix of spending cuts and tax increases.