The Republican incumbent, Scott Cyrway received 165 more votes in winning Albion, Benton, Clinton, Fairfield and Winslow than Democrat Karen Kusiak, who won Waterville but hasn’t decided whether she will seek a recount.
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State tells CMP its application to build 145-mile power line incomplete
The Department of Environmental Protection says it cannot evaluate the project without information in four areas, a request CMP calls routine.
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Posted inElection 2018, Local & State, Politics
On eve of ranked-choice vote count, Poliquin claims first-round victory
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap says tabulations will start as early as Friday and likely continue for ‘a few days,’ including the weekend.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Sen. King: Congress should pass bill supporting Mueller’s Russia probe after Sessions ouster
The newly re-elected Maine senator said special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation should not be blocked and that the Senate Intelligence Committee will continue its own inquiry regardless.
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Maine’s next governor tells radio hosts she wants state to ‘turn the page’
‘We don’t want to have a reputation as being a state that doesn’t respect itself,’ Janet Mills says during a Thursday morning show on WGAN.
Posted inElection 2018, Local & State, Nation & World, Politics
With Maine leading the way, Medicaid is a big election winner
Although it was held up by LePage, Maine was the first state to approve Medicaid expansion by ballot.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
White House suspends CNN’s Acosta after Trump confrontation
The president’s exchanges with CNN’s Jim Acosta and NBC News’ Peter Alexander turned bitterly personal during a news conference.
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Disrupted midterm voting shows nation’s aging ballot equipment overdue for replacement
Two years before the 2020 presidential election, 41 states are using machines that are more than a decade old, with some so obsolete that election workers have to search eBay for parts.
Posted inLocal & State, Local Elections, News
South Portland moves to enforce short-term rental rules on Jan. 1
People running brief, unhosted rentals in residential neighborhoods have nearly two months ‘to cease operating them as such, and to begin using their properties’ in compliance with city ordinances.
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Farmington residents greet Mills in her hometown
The governor-elect arrived to find more than 100 people waiting to celebrate her Tuesday election victory.