Maine Government News

Secretary of State Charlie Summers reminds Maine's motorcycle owners of the changes that were made to registration and inspections stickers.

The budget released this morning calls for $3 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which the Obama administration stresses is more than the $2.57 billion it requested as part of its 2012 budget.

The LePage administration has made improving the business climate in Maine a priority.

After a string of losses to Rick Santorum , Mitt Romney has ramped up his efforts in Maine to avoid another defeat when the state's caucus results are announced today.

With the Keystone XL pipeline on hold and the fight for the 'Northern Gateway' tar sands pipeline in full swing in western Canada, producers of tar sands oil and pipeline operators continue to look for ways to get Alberta's oil resources.

It's hard to gauge enthusiasm, but 2012 seems quite a bit quieter than 2008, at least if we compare the Democratic contest four years ago to the Republican one now.

"I think I have a natural connection with the people of Maine. Mainers tend to be fiscally conservative, and as governor of a state next door, Massachusetts, they know that I was the guy that balanced the budget all four years and lowered taxes 19 times.

The Maine Dept. of Environmental Protection in partnership with Gov. Paul LePage is re-launching a recognition program to spotlight the state's stewards of sustainability.

In the wake of a three-state loss Tuesday to Rick Santorum, Romney will visit Maine on Friday for the first time in the 2012 campaign.

Wendy Williams, left, Carlene Treadwell, Karen Ellis and Jean Delamater of Rightstart accept the Community Service Award on Saturday at the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce annual dinner.

A few years back when the price of heating oil surged, many Mainers flocked to a relatively unknown type of fuel alternative, wood pellets.

AUGUSTA, Maine _ Medicaid spending is a matter of urgency almost everywhere in the country right now, but in few places is the urgency as palpable as it is here, where the governor refers to the federal-state health insurance program for the poor as "welfare," says it's necessary to eliminate coverage for 65,000 adults, and wants to stop paying ... (more)

If you've read this column regularly, you know that misrepresentation of polling data is one of my pet peeves.

Obama will attend two fundraisers on March 30, probably in the Portland area, but details are not yet set, said Lizzy Reinholt, spokeswoman for the Maine Democratic Party.

Online job listings asking for casino workers to come to Maine have rankled some, who say The Oxford Casino is putting out-of-state people ahead of Mainers.

Congress has been procrastinating on an action that is critical to protect health care access for seniors and military families in Maine and across our country.

Heating prices rose again last week to a statewide average of $3.71 per gallon, more than a dollar per gallon more than consumers paid last winter.

I know, I'm probably preaching to the choir here but I'm often asked by friends and family from away, why I choose to live in Maine.

If Democrats had proposed spending last year that cost $170 million - say, to meet the 55 percent education funding law, or to keep revenue sharing flowing to towns and cities and boost property tax relief - they'd have been greeted with derision, not only from Republicans, but from their own party.

Baron Wormser has been possibly the steadiest voice we've had over the last 30 years of poetry in Maine.