Each year, hundreds of Mainers reach into their own pockets to fix incorrect federal flood maps.
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Maine woman promoted to Cabinet level
But her promotion could be wiped away by a consolidation of federal trade agencies.
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Mainer Mills may join Obama Cabinet
The president’s government reorganization plan would make the head of the Small Business Administration a Cabinet-level job.
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Collins, BIW hope for more destroyers
The senator tells a defense industry trade association the ships are needed to meet the U.S.’s security needs.
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Collins: More funding needed for combat ships
The Maine senator says the Navy should fund two BIW destroyers a year in order to carry out a new defense strategy refocused on the Asia-Pacific region.
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GOP leader unlikely to seek Pingree’s seat in U.S. House
State Sen. Jon Courtney says her personal funds are hard to compete with.
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Courtney says run against Pingree ‘pretty unlikely’
The Maine Senate majority leader says he can’t match the financial resources available to Rep. Chellie Pingree, who is married to billionaire Donald Sussman.
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Help for Maine health-care consumers may fall through cracks
A Maine program that helps consumers figure out health insurance coverage options and appeal claims denials is imperiled by congressional gridlock.
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Raye files papers for 2nd District race
The move by the president of the Maine Senate sets up a rematch with U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud for the congressional seat.
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Cuts, new tactics appear to spare BIW, Portsmouth
WASHINGTON – Maine’s two major military facilities seem well-positioned to continue to get government contracts under the cost-saving defense strategy outlined by the Obama administration Thursday, according to Maine’s two Democratic U.S. representatives. Both said they back the president’s strategy. But U.S. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both R-Maine, stopped short of endorsing it, […]