The country’s top military leaders offered split testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday about scrapping “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” the policy that prevents gays from openly serving in the armed forces.

Aside from the issue of payments to hospitals, he finds the president to be a practical but political guy.

Last week, Gov.-elect Paul LePage announced the names of 35 volunteers who would aid his transition. Many names were well-known in political or business circles, from outgoing state Sen. Lisa Marrache, a Waterville Democrat, to Mary Adams, a conservative advocate and staunch TABOR proponent, to Peter Geiger of Lewiston-based Geiger Bros. And while the LePage […]

The 35-member team will help the governor-elect develop policy and fill 150 jobs in his administration.

Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are co-signing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief to be submitted to the federal court in Florida that will hear a constitutional challenge of the federal health care reform law. The brief was initiated by U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and boasts signatures of […]