The Department of Corrections is suggesting that the state move to a three-region system with five jails in each region.
Paul LePage
Republican Governor of Maine, 2011 to present.
Posted inLocal & State, News
For 11 months, LePage administration dodges public records request for travel receipts
A request made under Maine’s open records law in March 2017 remains in limbo, and the costs to taxpayers for the governor’s international travels is unknown.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Workforce development vote a victory for Mainers, not their governor
A headline mischaracterizes a state board’s recent decision to channel critical training funding to those who need it most.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: LePage should put people who overdose before politics
Maine’s bullheaded governor insists that naloxone, rather than saving lives, only delays inevitable deaths.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine’s workforce boards worry that new requirements could set them up to fail
They also wonder whether the federal government will approve the LePage administration’s ruling that they must spend 70 percent of their funding on job training.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Portland Sen. Chipman: Governor shouldn’t play politics with Mainers’ lives
LePage is holding up rules that would increase access to the life-saving anti-overdose drug naloxone.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
Greg Kesich: Gov. LePage’s divisiveness likely to linger even after he’s gone
The governor will depart in a year, but he’s fueled political distrust that will last for many more.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine has no reason to stall new minimum-wage law
Critics of the 2016 base-pay raise are making the same specious claims they offered then.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine falls behind other states in efforts to prevent overdose deaths
As states from New Hampshire to California expand access to the overdose antidote naloxone, the LePage administration delays action that could save Maine lives.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Shielded Maine wind energy commission receives pushback
The law was unanimously passed in 1996 but opponents question its ethical ramifications.