After lawmakers blocked building it at an Augusta location, the Department of Health and Human Services has picked an alternative site near the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center.
Scott Thistle
Scott Thistle is the State House reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He has covered politics and government in Maine since 2006. Prior to that he served as the State House reporter for the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth, Minnesota. A Maine native, Thistle has worked in journalism since 1990, when he got his start at a weekly newspaper in rural Oxford County, Maine. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and an active volunteer with the National Ski Patrol. He resides with his wife, Amy and his two sons Finn and Kai, in Auburn, Maine. @thisdog
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Sen. Susan Collins breaks ankle in slip on ice at her Bangor home
Maine’s Republican senator doesn’t expect the injury to cause her to miss any work in Congress.
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LePage says site next to Riverview no longer an option for new psychiatric unit
The governor says a new location for the ‘step-down’ facility will be announced next week.
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Maine electors cast votes for Clinton, Trump – after protests inside and outside State House
Clinton gets three votes and Trump gets one on a historic day, but not before one elector breaks protocol and initially submits a protest ballot for Bernie Sanders.
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Rick Bennett to step down as Maine Republican Party chair
Bennett, a former state Senate president from Oxford, says he’s not ruling out other options – including running for public office again.
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Outcome unchanged as recount on marijuana referendum is suspended until the new year
With about 30 percent of the ballots recounted on the question of legalizing the drug, ‘yes’ is still ahead.
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Maine Electoral College members will divide their vote on Monday
Three of the four will cast ballots for Hillary Clinton, but Republican Party Chairman Rick Bennett says he’ll vote for Trump, who won the 2nd Congressional District.
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Report on Riverview Psychiatic Center calls for fast action
Former Chief Justice Daniel Wathen, who oversees a court decree applying to the state-owned psychiatric center, writes that progress has been made, but says the need for more space is ‘evident and urgent.’
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New House speaker, LePage agree to resolve impasse on forensic psychiatric center
Rep. Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, says a meeting with the governor was productive and led to a plan for moving forward in the coming weeks.
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Democrats again block LePage’s bid for new psychiatric facility for forensic patients
Lawmakers agree that Maine needs more treatment space for the mentally ill, but Democratic leaders want a public review