The boards of those that rely mostly on taxpayer funding should be more open to scrutiny, the attorney general says.

The leaders discuss various issues in a session long delayed by a dispute over ‘tracking’ of the governor.

But the partisan tension over who gets credit for paying the state’s debt to medical institutions reveals that industry’s outsized clout.

At a glance, it would appear that Gov. Paul LePage used his weekly radio address to double-down on his $6.2 billion two-year budget proposal. Or was it a double-dare? There seems to be widespread belief among Republicans and Democrats that the governor’s proposal to save more than $200 million by suspending municipal aid for two […]

The independent plans ‘something’ this week. Separately, a poll indicates he’d be a spoiler in a three-way race.