3/4 BREAKING NEWS: Maine Senator Susan Collins just voted against a War Powers Resolution that would have limited President Trump from waging war on Iran without Congressional authorization (as required by the Constitution) #maine #MEpolitics
3/4 UPDATE: That York County data center project would be way bigger. The Sanford Woods Industrial and Technical Campus would include a hydrogen fuel cell power plant, a data center, an industrial greenhouse, cold storage, and more. #maine #MEpolitics
3/3 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidates Shenna Bellows and Nirav Shah lay out their housing strategies in plans to lower cost of living for Mainers #maine #MEpolitics
3/2 Maine governor candidates Shenna Bellows and Nirav Shah each proposed new taxes on millionaires while rolling out their cost-of-living plans on Monday #maine #MEpolitics
3/1 Democratic Maine gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson discusses impact of tariffs on border communities at the Can-Am dogsled races in Fort Kent on Saturday #maine #MEpolitics
3/1 Maine Senate President Mattie Daughtry joins Northern Maine Medical Center nurses in calling for a fair contract. She spoke with me at the Can-Am Crown Dog Sled Races in Fort Kent on Saturday, as the Maine State Nurses Association tried to rally support from the community. #maine #MEpolitics
2/28 Two ICE observers in Maine who were allegedly added to DHS' “nice little database” of "domestic terrorists" have filed a lawsuit against the federal government. A third observer has filed a notice with the federal government seeking damages. #maine #MEpolitics
2/26 FBI director flies to Milan, parties with men’s hockey team, laughs at the also-gold-medal-winning women’s hockey team, and you paid for it all.
#maine #MEpolitics #republican #maga #trump #bangor #bangormaine #augustamaine #lewiston #portlandmaine #yorkmaine
2/26 I have these full videos from press conferences but only get to publish 90-second videos on social. So I'm going to start publishing those videos for paid subscribers to our new Substack before adding them to YouTube later. MaineNewsroom.Substack.com #maine #MEpolitics
2/27 Penobscot County officials have asked Governor Mills for an $8 million bailout #maine #MEpolitics
2/26 I have these full videos from press conferences but only get to publish 90-second videos on social. So I'm going to start publishing those videos for paid subscribers to our new Substack before adding them to YouTube later. We'll see how it goes!#maine #MEpolitics
2/26 It turns out here actually IS some data on the percentage of Maine Democrats who say they’re “socialists” to which we can compare this week's new poll. #maine #MEpolitics
2/25 A planned ICE processing facility in Merrimack, an hour from the Maine border, has been scrubbed. Mainers taken by ICE are currently taken to a processing facility in Burlington, Mass. but that facility has just four small holding areas and no beds. #maine #MEpolitics
2/25 Democrat Scott Harriman wins special election in Lewiston for vacant state house seat, preserving Democrats' narrow advantage in the House #maine #MEpolitics
2/24 New poll shows Graham Platner up big in the Dem primary for Senate from Maine, and that Sen. Collins is losing to both Platner and Gov. Mills in the general. BUT, the poll has structural issues that suggest the universe polled was younger and further left than it should be. #Maine #MEpolitics
2/24 Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree explains why she's skipping the President's State of the Union address on Tuesday night #maine #MEpolitics
2/24 Today's the one-year anniversary of the Maine Newsroom project and to celebrate, we've started a Substack! It's an alternative way to receive our content and the paid tier is a way to invest in the work we're doing. Subscribe at mainenewsroom.substack.com . #maine #MEpolitics
2/23 President Trump is gearing up for another unauthorized war, this time in Iran #maine #MEpolitics
2/23 The Trump Administration wants to spend $2 billion per year to build a copy of global health network it abandoned when it withdrew from the World Health Organization #maine #MEpolitics
2/22 The Bangor Daily News sounded the alarm over Senator Susan Collins’s support for the SAVE America Act, warning "Stripping the right to vote from millions of people to ‘fix’ a problem that doesn’t exist would be a huge step backward." #maine #MEpolitics
2/21 A new poll shows that Canadians are BIG mad at the United States. Even 48 percent of Canadian adults believe the U.S. is the biggest threat to peace, compared to just 29 percent who say Russia is. #maine #MEpolitics
2/20 Watch as U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), while talking to reporters about her tour of an immigration detention facility, learns that the U.S. Supreme Court had just struck down President Trump's tariffs #maine #MEpolitics
2/19 Candidate for #Maine governor Dr. Nirav Shah laid out his plan to 'Safeguard Maine from the Trump Administration' on Thursday. Shah’s plan covers six areas: elections; immigration enforcement; health and vaccines; the environment; abortion; and public schools. #MEpolitics
2/17 A lone Midwest billionaire paid for 98% of the campaign to get trans sports question on the Maine ballot. Campaign finance reports show that money moved between two political committees and a political consulting firm that paid for the signature gathering. #maine #MEpolitics
2/18 The Maine legislature has advanced a bill to ensure the Trump Administration doesn’t prevent Mainers from being able to get the vaccines they want and/or their doctors recommend. #maine #MEpolitics
2/18 The Maine legislature has advanced a bill to ensure the Trump Administration doesn’t prevent Mainers from being able to get the vaccines they want and/or their doctors recommend. #maine #MEpolitics
2/17 A lone Midwest billionaire paid for 98% of the campaign to get trans sports question on the Maine ballot. Campaign finance reports show that money moved between two political committees and a political consulting firm that paid for the signature gathering. #maine #MEpolitics
2/17 Is a large data center being secretly developed in York County, Maine? It seems so, according to a state senator representing the district. But no one else is talking. #maine #MEpolitics
2/16 Maine Senator Susan Collins announced her support late Friday for the SAVE Act, the controversial bill that would make it harder for tens of millions of Americans to vote #maine #MEpolitics
2/15 Former #Maine governor candidate Eliot Cutler was arrested again for violating his probation by possessing pornographic DVDs. It was discovered accidentally by state police who happened to see him carrying the DVDs outside a South Portland hotel Monday evening. #MEpolitics
