Maine's moderate Republican senators thriving
AP - Mon Nov 30, 3:22 am ETModerate Republicans may be a vanishing breed elsewhere, but Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are thriving.
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Moderate Republicans may be a vanishing breed elsewhere, but Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are thriving.
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.
Maine voters confirmed last week that in America, when a man inserts something into another man, it had better be a knife. On Nov. 3, gay marriage proponents suffered their 31st defeat at the hands of state voters. Mainers, by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent, voted to repeal the bill signed this spring by Governor John Baldacci.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.
Gary Crosby stands by the building at 50 Peary Terrace he recently purchased. He has donated space to the Maine Military Museum & Learning Center. Defeated in his quest for a City Council seat and a Willard Beach dog ban, Crosby has moved on to other issues.
By: Carly Tamborski | The News Record Members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) and community and allies from the University of Cincinnati protested in a Day of Silence and “flash mob,” Tuesday, Nov. 10, in response to Maine's vote to repeal the le...
Last week, almost exactly one year after the California voters stripped same sex couples of their marriage freedoms, Maine, through a ballot initiative, followed suit....
BANGOR, Maine -- A strong consensus of arena implementation committee members said Thursday that approving Phase I of a recent proposal -- specifically, the construction of a new 5,400-seat arena ...
I was really looking forward to announcing this week that Maine was to become the first state in our nation's history to uphold gay marriage at the ballot box. After all, the political climate was in our favor in the socially liberal, Libertarian-leaning state.
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | On election day, voters in Maine repealed a six-month-old state law authorizing same-sex marriage. Maine was the 31 st state in which the legal definition of marriage was put to a vote, and the 31 st in which voters rejected gay marriage.
KITTERY, Maine — The average resident will pay an estimated $134 more per year in sewer bills. The increased rates, approved by the Town Council, are intended to help pay for $4.4 million in improvements to the town's sewage treatment plant...