The city was recognized this week for “loyalty and patriotism by proudly displaying the United States flag.” Mark Lovell of the Greater Bangor area detachment of the Marine Corps League presented the city with a citation to that end on Monday night during a City Council meeting. The… Read More
City councilors Monday night authorized a development agreement and tax revenue and enhancement agreement with Northside Family Housing Associates, a limited partnership affiliated with Penquis CAP. The agreements pave the way for 28 new units of affordable family housing on Griffin Road, near the Airport Mall. Among the… Read More
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The Board of Selectmen and school board have issued a joint statement unanimously opposing the statewide spending cap ballot initiative known as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. “TABOR in general becomes a very cumbersome way to make changes for the community because of the whole voting process assigned… Read More
Penobscot County officials have forwarded for state review requests of $823,201 for funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Maine has about $2.6 million available in federal funds that will be distributed through the Maine Emergency Management Agency. Topping the county list are two projects: $267,049 to… Read More
When asked about the prospects of Democrats winning back the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Tom Allen, the five-term incumbent in the 1st District, smiles. He is confident, he tells a handful of supporters who have gathered at a town hall meeting in Bridgton on… Read More
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The Bangor Daily News asked all of the congressional candidates their positions on several issues handled by Congress in recent years. The date in parenthesis indicates year Congress last dealt with the issue. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the complete… Read More
As he campaigns to get elected to a third term in Congress, U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud says that the issues his constituents are concerned about remain the same, but that anger and concern about the war in Iraq are on the rise. “People are very… Read More
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Chandler Woodcock and Democratic Gov. John E. Baldacci both believe the best social service program in Maine is a job, but the Republican gubernatorial nominee maintains his opponent has done next to nothing to attract or retain new employers in the state. “Maine continues to… Read More
The Bangor Daily News asked all of the gubernatorial candidates their positions on several issues of importance to Maine voters. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the complete responses, visit www.bangordailynews.com. Q. Do LD 1 and its statutory… Read More
AUGUSTA – Almost nothing has changed for the self-proclaimed “people’s hero” since he ran for governor four years ago. Phillip Morris NaPier still wears his kilt and Scottish tam, accompanied by Belle, an extremely patient Great Pyrenees dog. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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The Bangor Daily News asked all of the congressional candidates their positions on several issues handled by Congress in recent years. The date in parenthesis indicates year Congress last dealt with the issue. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the complete… Read More
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Among the field of four opponents challenging Gov. John E. Baldacci’s re-election bid, none is more passionately critical of the Democratic incumbent than Barbara Merrill. In television ads, media interviews and candidate forums, Merrill repeatedly hammers the Baldacci administration, driving home ideological barbs against the… Read More
The Bangor Daily News asked all of the gubernatorial candidates their positions on several issues of importance to Maine voters. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the complete responses, visit www.bangordailynews.com. Q. Does LD 1 and its statutory… Read More
HOULTON – U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, some have argued, is among of the most powerful and recognizable politicians on Capitol Hill. When it came to Houlton’s sleepy Market Square one recent morning, there was little room for doubt. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
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The Bangor Daily News asked all of the gubernatorial candidates their positions on several issues of importance to Maine voters. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the complete responses, visit www.bangordailynews.com. Flag burning amendment to the U.S. Constitution (2006):… Read More
BANGOR – The Green Independent Party of Maine was built on an environmental foundation, but this year its gubernatorial candidate has made health care the centerpiece of her campaign. It’s really not much of a leap for Patricia LaMarche, who sees both issues as irrevocably… Read More
Bill Slavick is a man without a party. And at this year’s Common Ground Fair – a late-summer hub of leftist politics in Unity – he was also a man without any official place to sit. It was early afternoon and Slavick, a Portland independent… Read More
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PORTLAND – Standing before more than 50 young adults of all nationalities enrolled in the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program, Gov. John E. Baldacci was all smiles recently as he accepted an award for his support of the top-performing initiative. The program serves more than… Read More
BANGOR – Over the din of the 1,500 raucous anti-war protesters that surrounded her, one had to listen intently to hear Jean Hay Bright’s message. But it’s a message the Democratic U.S. Senate contender believes will resonate loudly, far beyond the recent rally at the… Read More
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The Bangor Daily News asked all of the congressional candidates their positions on several issues handled by Congress in recent years. The date in parenthesis indicates the year Congress last dealt with the issue. In some cases, their answers have been edited or excerpted for space. For the… Read More
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DIXMONT – There’s something unusual in Jean Hay Bright’s driveway: Her car. Hay Bright, a writer and organic farmer in this small Penobscot County town, has spent hundreds of hours and thousands of miles on the road in her effort to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Read More
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DAMARISCOTTA – Out on the sidewalk in front of a local restaurant, Christopher Miller readied himself for his next campaign appearance. “I have to make myself presentable,” the Gray Democrat said as he put on a sport coat and a fish-shaped tie he pulled from… Read More
EAST MACHIAS – More than 150 hungry Down Easters were lined up in front of him, and Maine’s governor was in his element. “Any time I’m serving spaghetti, I’m doing well,” Democrat John Baldacci told one woman as he carefully placed a pile of pasta… Read More
AUGUSTA – Late last fall, Chandler Woodcock had one of those crystallizing moments that sometimes happens to politicians as he prepared to finish the second half of his third term in the Maine Senate. As a Republican, the Farmington lawmaker had become fully aware of… Read More
AUGUSTA – Serve in the Maine Legislature, get elected to the U.S. Congress, and then come back and run for governor. Not a bad strategy for an ambitious politician. Republican hopeful David Emery figures it worked for Democratic Gov. John E. Baldacci, so why not… Read More
AUGUSTA – A little more than a year ago, Gov. John E. Baldacci and his majority Democrats in the Maine Legislature were forced to abandon a highly controversial plan to balance the state budget with a loan of more than $400 million leveraged by $250 million in future… Read More
Standing next to former President George H.W. Bush at Walker’s Point earlier this month, Charlie Summers looked like a seasoned politician being ushered into the inner circle of Republican leaders. Tall, blond and handsome, Summers, 44, was on hand at the Bush summer home to… Read More
The obligatory October campaign swing through the northeastern part of the 1st Congressional District included the typical stops – visits to an elementary school in Boothbay Harbor and a Camden nursing home, meetings with two newspaper editorial boards in Rockland and Camden. Rep. Tom Allen,… Read More
The sight of congressmen on a golf course is hardly a rare one. Odds are, however, Maine’s 2nd District Rep. Mike Michaud won’t be among them. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for… Read More
It must be his hundredth handshake of the day and it’s not even noon. “Everything’s going according to plan,” Republican Brian Hamel said with a smile to a man who inquired about his campaign for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat during a recent electioneering stop… Read More
The candidate, admittedly a little nervous, fumbled a bit with the microphone upon taking his place behind the podium during a recent speech at the University of Maine in Orono. “It’s time to reject the Republicans and the Democrats,” Carl Cooley, a socialist running for… Read More
Few women live in the moment as much as Pat LaMarche. Last Saturday, she was a happy-go-lucky radio personality looking forward to joining other Mainers in relishing what’s left of the receding season we call summer. Today, she’s unemployed and the vice-presidential candidate for the… Read More
The crossing signal was against her, but traffic was light and Sen. Susan Collins took the opening, striding briskly across Farmington’s Main Street to shake hands with a group of shoppers on the opposite sidewalk. The 49-year-old Collins waded into the crowd, clasping hands and… Read More
PORTLAND – Ensconced near a front window at Three Dollar Dewey’s ale house, John Michael ponders a question as he watches a constant stream of humanity pass by along the Commercial Street sidewalk. He wonders aloud what these people know about his independent bid for… Read More
BUCKSPORT – It’s the afternoon shift change at International Paper and the mill workers are approaching a man with a broad smile and an outstretched hand who has strategically positioned himself in front of the cross-walk leading to the employee parking lot. The papermakers have… Read More
WEST GARDINER – Another Monday, another quintessential get-out-the-vote spaghetti dinner compliments of Democratic gubernatorial candidate John E. Baldacci. But this one is different from past election soirees in which the integrity of the Baldacci name is the main ingredient in the candidate’s trademark entree of… Read More
BANGOR – A lot of political candidates preach passionately about providing the most basic human needs to those least able to help themselves. Donning a red apron on a recent Saturday in the kitchen of the Grace United Methodist Church at 193 Union St., Jonathan… Read More
Chellie Pingree is an energizer. Whether before a group of laid-off garment workers, labor union activists or a team of college students who have knocked on thousands of doors on her behalf during the campaign, the Democratic Senate candidate has a way of pumping up emotions. Read More
Looking out over 100 mostly attentive teenagers in the Nokomis Regional High School gymnasium in Newport last week, 2nd Congressional District Republican nominee Kevin Raye couldn’t help but think of his own political beginnings. It has been 24 years since Raye, then a student at… Read More
Democrat Mike Michaud took a last-minute look through his notes before a recent afternoon address to a throng of raucous, sign-waving supporters at a rally in Lewiston’s historic Kennedy Park. The blue-collar candidate isn’t much on stump speeches, although this day he’s in front of… Read More
Tom Allen believes the best ideas for governing come from the people. Campaigning last week in his bid to be returned as the 1st Congressional District’s representative, Allen, 57, told reporters and others during visits in Rockland that he sees his job as listening to the concerns of… Read More
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