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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.

Posted By david_nwpa 4 hours, 12 minutes ago in Political News > Tomorrow, Maine voters decide whether to repeal Maine's 4-month-old same-sex marriage law.

A year after the nation's financial industry was bailed out by Congress, lawmakers are considering a sweeping overhaul of regulation aimed at preventing a replay of the near collapse of the industry.

PORTLAND : Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan will travel to Portland Oct.

The leadership in Maine's businesses, government and nonprofits is graying and set to retire, which means it's time for a younger generation to take the reins.

Central Maine Power has been awarded about $96 million in grant funding from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to invest in "Smart Grid" technology in Maine, according to releases from U.S. Sen.

No frothing-at-the-mouth rants from me today. Just some interesting tidbits about the campaigns surrounding Question 1, which Mainers will vote on one week from today.

Closed since Friday, Oct. 16, the historic Memorial Bridge, which links Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, appears to be in the final stretch in its race against time.

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States such as New Hampshire and Maine with fast-growing aging populations will feel the impact most from the no cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security in 2010.

A consortium led by the University of Maine has been awarded as much as $8 million in federal stimulus funds to develop technology to harness winds in the Gulf of Maine.

BoatUS recently announced the "Keep America's Waterfronts Working Act of 2009," introduced in May by Rep.