Maine Politics Information Directory

Text messaging plays big in Maine politics. September 1, 2010. A proposal to ban text messaging while driving is emerging as a likely issue before the next Maine Legislature. Maine state lawmakers passed a measure last year attempting ...

The Coast Guard wants to implement net zero homes at their base at Southwest Harbor, Maine. Wind power is just the first step.

An overwhelming majority of delegates to the Maine Republican convention tonight voted to scrap the the proposed party platform and replace it with a document created by a group of Tea Party activists. ...

CD2 Republican candidate Jason Levesque is on the air with the first TV ad of the race. According to his Facebook wall, the ad will be "running all week in some very key areas of the state," which likely means a short run, possibly just ...

Maine is a maritime state. With Seven Nails of Charity being focused on the National Guard of the Boston area I have decided to use this site to discuss naval matters here as well as Maine politics. The Guard culture of Maine is Air ...

B ANGOR, Maine - An Illinois man has been sentenced to five months in prison for threatening to shoot U.S. Sen. Susan Collins because she supported the federal government’s economic stimulus package. Forty-seven ...

so the independent from the small western Maine town of Andover is following the advice of a former governor, whom he declined to name. The 42-year-old newcomer to statewide politics is facing four better-funded and ...

A Pakistani man detained in Maine for several weeks while authorities investigated an attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square says he harbors no resentment against federal agents, even the ...

A Pakistani man detained during an investigation of a botched car bombing in New York City's says he knew the plotter years ago as a partying college student — not as the radical Muslim who later said he ...

July 19 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama accused his Republican opponents on Monday of playing election-year politics by refusing ... are expected to get favorable votes from two Maine Republicans, Olympia Snowe ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — A proposal to ban text messaging while driving is emerging as a likely issue before the next session of the Maine Legislature. Maine lawmakers passed a law last year that attempted to deal with all ...

BANGOR, Maine (AP) - An Illinois man has been sentenced to five months in prison for threatening to shoot U.S. Sen. Susan Collins because she supported the federal government's economic stimulus package. Forty-seven ...

There's an interesting subtext to Maine Today political reporter Rebekah Metzler's overview of Susan Collins' last two years in office. It's mostly found clinging to a series of quotes in the article, gathered from a ...

AUGUSTA, Maine — A busy day of confirmation votes is in store for the Maine Senate. More than 70 of Gov. John Baldacci's nominees for judgeships, boards and commissions are up for Senate confirmation votes on ...

One is that this is an effort at reaching and mobilizing evangelical young people into Republican politics, particularly in ... George and Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Malone of Maine; and as such notable Christian ...