Michael Shepherd

Staff Writer

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Published
June 11, 2012

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Shifting the dialogue

AUGUSTA — It was in the 1990s and authorities statewide would keep going the same homes for similar domestic violence calls.
Published
June 11, 2012

Shifting the dialogue on domestic violence

AUGUSTA — It was in the 1990s and authorities statewide would keep going to the same homes for similar domestic violence calls.
Published
June 9, 2012

Natural gas deal changes the game

AUGUSTA — A subsidiary of a Colorado-based company has agreed to buy the assets of the firm planning to build a natural gas pipeline in central Maine.
Published
June 9, 2012

Pipeline project has new owner

AUGUSTA — A subsidiary of a Colorado-based company has agreed to buy the assets of the firm planning to build a natural gas pipeline in central Maine.
Published
June 8, 2012

Beyond being stern legislator, Raye has reputation for community loyalty

Mainers are used to seeing Kevin Raye as the buttoned-down Republican State Senate president.
Published
June 8, 2012

Raye’s reputation about respect, reaching out

Editor’s note: This is the second of two profiles of the Republican candidates competing in the June 12 primary for the 2nd Congressional District seat. The winner will face Democrat incumbent Mike Michaud in the November election. Mainers are used to seeing Kevin Raye as the buttoned-down Republican State Senate president. But his former church […]
Published
June 7, 2012

Blaine Richardson running for Congress to rein in big government

Blaine Richardson favors term limits for congressional seats: three terms for the House of Representatives and two terms for the Senate.
Published
June 7, 2012

Marijuana dispensary settles lawsuit

AUGUSTA — Maine’s largest medical marijuana dispensary nonprofit group has settled a lawsuit brought by its former California backer.
Published
June 7, 2012

Richardson offers five-plank platform

Blaine Richardson favors term limits for congressional seats: three terms for the House of Representatives and two terms for the Senate. “There’s nobody in this country that has a monopoly on good ideas,” said the 62-year-old Belfast Republican. “Let somebody else go to Washington with some fresh ideas.”
Published
June 6, 2012

Truth Test: Michaud’s spending remark proves false

Michaud’s speech, to a friendly crowd that packed the Augusta Civic Center last weekend for the Democratic State Convention, was a reference to his race again Kevin Raye, the Republican from Perry who is now president of the Maine Senate. If Raye wins a GOP primary election Tuesday against Blaine Richardson, Raye and Michaud will face off again in November.