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It may seem early for the 2010 congressional campaign to start, but not for Jason Levesque. The Auburn businessman has been hitting fairs and factories for six months as the Republican sets his sights on Maine's 2nd District congressional seat, held by four-term Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud.
The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix gave $50,000 to the campaign to defeat gay marriage in Maine. It was one of the largest donations from a diocese outside the state.
KITTERY, Maine — Budget season is in full swing today.
AUGUSTA, Maine -- Maine voters will have no shortage of choices as they select a successor to Gov. John Baldacci next year. The crowded mix of candidates includes seasoned State House insiders, …
The St. Louis Archdiocese contributed $10,000 to a voters' initiative that overturned a Maine law last week legalizing gay marriage, campaign finance records show. Only two other dioceses in the country — Phoenix and Philadelphia — contributed more ($50,000 each).
By moving this basic premise of marriage equality from the sink hole of catastrophic defeat state after state, year after year, to within striking distance of a win, we will eventually reach the finish line.
HERMON, Maine -- Sen. Olympia Snowe, in Maine for the weekend, said she hasn't yet seen the Senate's latest health care bill, but the powerful Republican also stressed that she has no plans to rush her decision.
After last week's vote in Maine tossed out a state law granting gays and lesbians the right to marry and voter approval of a Washington state law granting its gay couples "everything but marriage," gays and lesbians in Northern Colorado are a bit circumspect about the implications those votes have...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Olympia Snowe has been in the hot national spotlight of the national health care reform debate for the past several months, and some in her party say the Maine Republican is melting away from her conservative roots.
BATH — Maine’s two Republican U.S. senators reached out to Mid-coast residents big and small Thursday, as Sen. Olympia Snowe visited downtown Bath and Sen. Susan Collins addressed middle school students in Freeport.
State Rep. Sally Lewin, R-Eliot, said she was delighted to hear the news this week that the Maine secretary of state had verified enough signatures to put a Democratically led tax reform bill before the voters for repeal in statewide elections next June.
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