How do we attract college graduates to the profession when the committed educators working now continue to be denigrated and underpaid?
Paul LePage
Republican Governor of Maine, 2011 to present.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine presidential primary should use ranked-choice voting
The most confusing aspect of the system is the on-again-off-again way that it’s used in some races but not others.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
LePage, Moody and Poliquin gather at Republican forum to boost Trump, bash Mills
A media event in Gorham highlights the president’s tax cuts and criticizes Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Rep. Gramlich: Gov. Mills has chance to do right by vulnerable Mainers
Signing L.D. 775 would expand and restore much-needed support services for people with mental illness.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Political legacies are hard to claim
Some Democratic presidential candidates are distancing themselves from Barack Obama, who is still the party’s most popular figure.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News, Politics
Thousands of Mainers could lose food stamps under Trump administration plan
The new rule would prohibit states from automatically enrolling people who are eligible for other welfare benefits.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
LePage appeals to Trump on lobster regulations
The former Republican governor, who has been bartending in Boothbay Harbor this summer, said proposed regulations to protect right whales could be disastrous for Maine’s lobster industry.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
LePage’s final year in office included 39 days in Florida, $33,000 trip to Montenegro
Newly obtained documents reveal details of trips the former governor tried to conceal.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Fossel’s conservative buzzwords don’t add insight
It’s not a ‘nanny state’ that tries to limit underage vaping, and adding to ocean pollution should not be an issue of ‘individual liberty.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Maine erases advances made under Republican governor, Legislature
We’re taking major steps backward in both economic freedom and individual liberties.