At stake is a multibillion-dollar plan to expand high-speed wireless access in rural areas.
Jonathan Riskind
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Budget snippings ignore looming crisis
There is real potential pain for Maine in the budget standoff consuming Washington these days, no mistake about that.
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Assistant U.S. attorney chosen as next federal judge for Maine
Nancy Torresen will likely be confirmed ‘pretty easily’ by the Senate, an expert in the selection process says.
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LePage sees chance to win flexibility to cut Medicaid
President Obama says he is willing to work with states to allow tighter restrictions in order to trim costs.
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Give states increased flexibility, LePage says
Maine’s governor tells the U.S. government to ‘get out of the way’ on MaineCare and the environment.
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Snowe’s re-election bid draws challengers aligned with tea party
A national group targets the veteran Republican for defeat, but political experts don’t see her as vulnerable.
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MPBN will ‘change’ if federal cut is passed
But it says it will survive the loss of 14 percent of its TV and radio budget if House efforts succeed.
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Senate vote keeps subsidies for small airports
The program supports service to airports in Maine, including Augusta, Presque Isle, Bar Harbor and Rockland.
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Push to kill engine funds may save Maine jobs
WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on an alternate engine for the military’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The main engine is partially built at a Pratt & Whitney plant in North Berwick. Both of Maine’s House members, Democrats Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud, voted in favor […]
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Subsidy cut could hurt Maine airports
A House panel votes to eliminate the subsidy to airlines flying into smaller, often remote airports.