Analysts disagree on whether the ballot measure to fund home care would create a ‘marriage penalty’ for couples filing joint income tax returns.
Politics
Local, statewide and national political news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Like it or not, new Maine law doubles the season to display political campaign signs
Campaign and other posters can now be in public ways for 12 weeks a year, a benefit to some and a blight to others.
Maine high court rules against district attorney candidate Seth Carey
Seth Carey had his license suspended again and now faces disbarment after accusations that he sexually abused a woman.
Prospect of progress on China, U.S. trade war lifts stock market
Thursday marked the Dow’s largest gain since April, the latest in a wild week for the market.
Doctor who wants to challenge Sen. Collins is reprimanded
Dr. Cathleen London is placed on probation and prohibited from prescribing methadone.
Maine Ethics Commission votes to release campaign cash held up by typo, politics
One Republican member of the panel, a former state lawmaker, opposes the decision to release $3.5 million to Clean Elections candidates.
Disbarment hearing begins for district attorney candidate
Seth Carey is accused of sexually abusing a woman, who later was granted a protection order agasint him.
Conservative group’s study suggests cash from outside has too much influence on state referendums
The Maine Heritage Policy Center finds that 71 percent of money spent for or against passage was contributed by out-of-staters.
Gov. Cuomo: America ‘was never that great’
The president wants to return to an era of sexism, racism and intolerance toward immigrants, he says.
Currency crisis, tension with U.S. are weighing on Turkey
The lira has lost 40 percent of its value this year in the country.