LEWISTON — The country’s founding documents that promise freedom to all get messy when examining the history of race, the keynote speaker at Bates College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day said Monday. William Jelani Cobb, who teaches history at the University of Connecticut, is an author and a journalist for The New Yorker. Cobb said […]
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Chin says ‘anytime, anywhere’ to debate with LePage on budget
Gov. LePage has challenged MPA to a public debate on his regressive budget proposal, which cuts health care and education to give a $10,000 average tax break to the top 1%. We accept. Posted by Maine People’s Alliance on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 AUGUSTA — Ben Chin, a candidate for the Lewiston mayor’s office and […]
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Bellows rejects Collins’ assertion that she’s moderate during debate
PORTLAND — Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic challenger Shenna Bellows traded sharp barbs during a CBS13/Bangor Daily News televised debate Monday evening that featured the incumbent highlighting her moderate values and the challenger trying to push Collins to the right. Bellows challenged Collins’ attempts to frame herself as a moderate by attacking the three-term […]
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Video: LePage, Cutler and Michaud square off for round two debate
PORTLAND — With just 15 days until Election Day, the candidates in the race to be Maine’s next governor squared off in their second televised debate Monday, hitting on a range of issues from energy costs to education to health care. In an hour-long and often fiery conversation, independent Eliot Cutler, Democrat Mike Michaud and […]
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Maine’s candidates for governor to face off in second televised debate
AUGUSTA — The first televised debate between Maine’s three candidates for governor grew so feisty last Wednesday night that one candidate — independent Eliot Cutler — kind of apologized the next day for taking too hard a jab at one of his opponents, Democrat Mike Michaud. Meanwhile, Maine political observers and others who parse every […]
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Gubernatorial candidates go on the offensive in televised debate
AUGUSTA — The three candidates for governor got their chance to go on the offensive Wednesday evening during a freewheeling debate in Augusta. Wednesday’s debate, televised by WCSH-TV, was the first of the five gubernatorial debates to allow the candidates to directly interact with each other. Given the opportunity, Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent […]
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Governor candidates spar over health care, jobs
UPDATED: 11:56 a.m. PORTLAND — After months of drama and political posturing over whether gubernatorial debates would take place at all, Republican Gov. Paul LePage, Democrat Mike Michaud and independent Eliot Cutler took the stage together for the first time Wednesday in Portland. The topics were predictable, given the host: The Portland Regional Chamber of […]
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What Cutler, LePage and Michaud need to do in the debates
AUGUSTA — Maine’s three gubernatorial candidates will reach uncharted territory in the coming days when they at long last appear together on a debate stage. In general, political debates are tame affairs and do little to sway voters, especially when they’re held this late in a campaign. That’s because after months on the campaign trail, […]
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Leading candidates for governor’s race in Maine eye fall debate schedule
LEWISTON — Despite repeated public requests that they step to the stage and square off in a policy debate, the leading candidates in Maine’s governor’s race — Republican incumbent Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud — are brushing off independent challenger Eliot Cutler. Cutler has invited — in writing and in public […]
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Portland planners approve first phase of 165-foot-tall Bayside tower project
PORTLAND — In a nearly seven-hour meeting at Portland City Hall, members of the planning board gave developers the green light — in some cases begrudgingly — for the first phase of a four-tower, $150 million project in the city’s Bayside neighborhood. The long-awaited vote on the project’s fate came more than a month later […]