#ELECTION2016: All day coverage from across Maine and the nation at SunJournal.com All SunJournal.com election stories will be free to read Live local, statewide and national results and video on SunJournal.com, Facebook and Twitter throughout the night Complete roundup in Wednesday’s print edition LEWISTON — At least two key races are very tight as voters head to the polls […]
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Voter suppression effort decried at Bates College
LEWISTON — Somebody doesn’t want Bates College students to vote Tuesday. Sometime Saturday, orange fliers appeared at a number of dorms and at the school’s dining hall claiming to be a “Legal Advisory” for Bates students. The papers gave no indication of their creator or distributor, despite a legal requirement that they carry a disclaimer. […]
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Congressmen forking over money for 2nd Congressional District race
It helps to have friends in high places. At least 75 members of the U.S. Congress have dipped into their own campaign funds to donate to their party’s candidate in Maine’s hard-fought 2nd Congressional District. Republican and Democratic incumbents, most of them in safe districts with no serious challenger, collectively tossed $114,000 into the coffers […]
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Workers lash out at Poliquin
Two longtime employees of the firm spoke at her Lisbon Street headquarters to lash into U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, the first-term Republican whom Cain aims to unseat in Tuesday’s voting in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Poliquin is under fire for saying he’d helped manage the pension fund years ago when he actually had no role […]
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GOP panel pushes Cain about backing Clinton
The National Republican Congressional Committee this week pressed Maine Democrat Emily Cain to say whether she’s still backing her party’s presidential candidate. What makes it an odd twist is that her opponent, U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, the first-term Republican from Maine’s hotly contested 2nd District, has made it clear to this point he will not […]
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Student politicos offer different takes on election
LEWISTON — For Molly Ryan, president of the Bates Republicans, these are difficult days. With Donald Trump leading the GOP ticket in the Nov. 8 election, she said, many young people on her side of the political divide can’t stomach the party’s presidential nominee. “It’s depressing,” Ryan said. “It’s negative.” Young Democrats, on the other hand, […]
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Gov. Paul LePage says Emily Cain’s ads are ‘lying to Maine people’
Before Gov. Paul LePage called on Donald Trump to show “some authoritarian power in our country and bring back the rule of law” during a radio interview this week, he weighed in on the hard-fought 2nd District congressional contest. LePage praised Republican incumbent Bruce Poliquin — though the freshman lawmaker “has given me some gray […]
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Junior hockey: Maine Timberwolves done in Lewiston before playing a single game
LEWISTON — Full-time junior hockey in Lewiston is dead for another season. Three months after the Maine Timberwolves announced plans to play their 16-game home schedule at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee as part of the Northern States Junior Hockey League, league commissioner Wayne Sheehan confirmed Thursday that the team’s operations have been suspended. “From a […]
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Ice hockey: Timberwolves to play full-time at Colisee
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin Bank Colisee will have a full-time tenant next season, after all. Months after the Portland Pirates played their final American Hockey League game at the Lewiston facility, Colisee officials confirmed Tuesday that the building will be home to the Maine Timberwolves of the Northern States Hockey League on a full-time basis […]
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Low voter turnout expected for Tuesday’s primary
AUGUSTA — Voter turnout is expected to be light in Maine’s primary election this week. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said that few competitive primary races will likely contribute to fairly low voter turnout on Tuesday. He says he’s estimating about 13 to 15 percent of eligible voters will make it to the polls. But […]