The failure of Maine’s government to address drug abuse and mental illness creates an unfair burden for Portland taxpayers.
Paul LePage
Republican Governor of Maine, 2011 to present.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Advocacy group makes new legal move to block LePage’s efforts to reject Medicaid expansion
Maine Equal Justice Partners wants a judge to bring in an outside party to amend the state’s expansion plan and short-circuit the governor’s request that the federal government reject the plan.
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Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, Politics
Maine court to hear arguments in fight over implementing Medicaid expansion
The state’s top court recently left consideration of constitutional issues about Medicaid expansion to a Superior Court judge, who will begin to weigh such matters next week.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Medicaid supporters urge federal agency to ignore LePage letter, approve expansion
Three parties argue in letters that the U.S. government should allow 70,000 more Mainers to get health coverage as state law dictates, despite the governor’s opposition.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: On aging crisis, LePage offered no leadership
Maine stood still for eight years, while the needs of the elderly population multiplied.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News, Politics
Governor’s energy director steps down
Steven McGrath came from the private energy sector, where he specialized in finance and management.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
LePage veto of extra election funding stands as Legislature finally adjourns for 2018
On its last day of action in a marathon year, legislators also pass a change to foreclosure law, and some level not-so-veiled criticism at the governor.
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LifeFlight was used to transport LePage to hospital during health scare
The governor declines to talk about a medical problem that resulted in him being taken from New Brunswick to Presque Isle to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, Politics
New law lets some Maine veterans skip course work and take nursing exam
Those hoping to be fast-tracked and become LPNs must have served in a medical corps, spent at least 12 months providing bedside patient care and left the military with an honorable discharge.
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LePage rips up lawmakers’ letter, says senator he called ‘repugnant’ owes him an apology
LePage, who called Republican Tom Saviello ‘the most repugnant human being,’ says he’ll apologize when Saviello does, or ‘when hell freezes over.’