There is no shame in being a victim of domestic abuse, but there are plenty of people who should be ashamed for causing or enabling it.
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Posted inNation & World
Trump administration releases $3.32 billion in heating aid
Maine’s Sens. Collins and Angus King call the program a “lifeline”.
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Maine woman found guilty of sending threatening mail to Sen. Collins
Suzanne Muscara said the letter, which claimed to contain anthrax, was a joke. A jury thought otherwise.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News, Politics
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other votes, the House has passed the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act to require the use of the government’s Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to pay for operations and maintenance expenses at federally authorized harbors.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Promised $2.5 million and Mercedes, Auburn senior loses life savings
Barbara Hinckley, 95, lost everything to a sweet-talking scam artist who told her she’d placed second in a sweepstakes for the Publisher’s Clearing House.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Is Sen. Collins running in 2020? Not yet, officially, but you’d never know it.
Maine’s Republican senator, seen by Democrats as someone they can unseat, is widely expected to seek another term but keeps saying she will decide ‘in the fall.’
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Another View: Sen. Collins is a champion for Mainers with Type 1 diabetes
A recent op-ed did not tell the full story of the senator’s leadership on this issue.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Money from away piles up in U.S. Senate race
The most recent campaign finance reports show that out-of-state donors made the vast majority of contributions of $200 or more to the campaigns of Republican Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Town hall meetings increasingly rare for Maine members of Congress
Once a staple of congressional politics, the open forum with constituents appears to be making a comeback across the country, but not so much in Maine.
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Democrats hopeful as they bring campaigns for U.S. Senate to rural Sangerville Grange
SANGERVILLE — For a few hours recently, the 115-year-old East Sangerville Grange Hall, one of those classic white clapboard New England structures, stood at the center of what may prove the most important U.S. Senate race in the nation. That mid-October Saturday night marked the first time each of the Maine Democratic Party’s Senate contenders gathered […]