State Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, speaking at the Maine Democratic Convention earlier this month: “Our problem is that the top 1 percent of Americans take in a quarter of this nation’s riches, and continue to see their fat incomes grow, while 99 percent of us watch our income and quality of life fall off […]

The Eastport businessman wins the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud – for the second time.

Kevin Raye defeats Blaine Richardson and says he plans to ‘hit the ground running.’

Second of two stories on the Republican candidates for Maine’s 2nd District seat in the U.S. House. Mainers are used to seeing Kevin Raye as the buttoned-down Republican state Senate president. But his former church pastor sees him differently. To her, he’s a family-oriented man who never forgot where he came from or missed church […]

First of two stories on the Republican candidates for Maine’s 2nd District seat in the U.S. House.   Blaine Richardson favors term limits for congressional seats: three terms for the House of Representatives and two terms for the Senate. “There’s nobody in this country that has a monopoly on good ideas,” said the 62-year-old Belfast […]

From U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud’s speech at the Democratic State Convention: “When I first ran for Congress 10 years ago, they said … Republicans were fired up at winning the 2nd Congressional District … and that we would be outspent by a Republican opponent, which we were by 2-to-1 …”   Michaud’s speech, to a […]