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When President Barack Obama stood in front of cadets at West Point Military Academy in New York Tuesday night and announced that 30,000 more troops would be deployed to Afghanistan, he acknowledged that the move would not be universally popular.

Things for Which I am Thankful: 2009 Barack Obama is our 44th president and John McCain is not Joe Biden is our vice president and Sarah Palin is not That somehow we didn't fall into Great Depression II The hope of semi-significant healthcare reform - Howard Dean The Congressional Progressive Caucus Michelle and those arms Olbermann, Maddow, ...

It may seem early for the 2010 congressional campaign to start, but the fields in both of Maine's congressional districts are starting to take shape.

Gov. John Baldacci is submitting a request to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to continue Maine's waiver from requirements of the Real ID law that take effect Jan.

Thanksgiving is a day for family, friends and altogether too much food. Even the Maine congressional delegation, whose day-to-day lives are different than most - weathering elections and long floor battles, allocating billions in federal funds to help the folks back home - will give their power suits a break and celebrate a largely traditional ...

I'd like to thank U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud for voting for the health care bill.

The nation's health care "system" is the Titanic. Comparable ships of state cost half as much to operate, but are twice as seaworthy.

Vinalhaven residents Jessie Creelman, 11, and Hannah Noyes, 11, celebrate the three wind turbines in their community with pinwheels during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday, Nov.

The Fox Islands wind project dedicated its turbines in a morning ceremony on the island of Vinalhaven, Tuesday.

With most of Maine and New Hampshire's congressional delegations throwing their support behind an application to rehabilitate the Memorial Bridge with federal funds, all that remains is to gear up for the federal government's decision on that application.

With the nation's unemployment rate reaching a 26-year high at 10.2 percent, there was one hopeful sign - for the third straight month, there was a rise in temporary help jobs being filled in October, which can serve as a prelude to growth in permanent jobs.

Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, was greeted with cheers upon her arrival at the Portland International Jetport on Sunday after casting a vote in favor of health care reform.

Mainers are more concerned about the economy and job loss than they are about health care, give District 1 Congresswoman Chellie Pingree a mixed review, don't like Gov.

LEWISTON a ' U.S. Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree, both Democrats, voted in support of the health care reform bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday by a vote of 220-215. Michaud, who represents Maine's 2nd District, had said Friday he wasn't certain how he would vote.

More than 2,000 Mainers who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits will get new aid within weeks, after President Obama signed the latest benefits extension into law last week.

On the eve of a landmark health care reform vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, protestors gathered outside the offices of Rep.

Several dozen people gathered in front of U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud's office on Lisbon Street in Lewiston on Friday for a candlelight vigil to encourage the Maine Democrat to support health care reform.

Union leaders in Maine are calling on U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud to endorse a health care bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives.

A same-sex marriage protestor stands on a Gay Pride flag. Maine voters will decide Tuesday whether to uphold a law signed in May allowing gay couples to get married.