Maine is among the states that have put in place new policies to welcome patients who aren’t their residents. Advocates and providers say other safe-haven states should replicate the investments. | via @stateline.org @kelciemmorris.bsky.social mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/20/r...
Eviction filings fell in 2025 for the second straight year in the cities and states tracked in a new report — areas home to roughly a third of the country’s renters — though some of those places saw increases. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/20/r...
Mainers seeking assistance with home heating costs can still apply for federal aid after the Trump administration agreed to release roughly $4 million in undistributed funding to the state. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/20/w...
A controversial rule enacted last year that denies federal Medicaid funding to abortion providers is likely to expire this summer, despite anti-abortion pressure on Republicans to renew it. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/20/r...
The National Guard’s top general told Congress on Friday that it would follow the Constitution and the law when he was asked about the possibility President Donald Trump would order troops to polling places for the midterm elections. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/r...
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s standing room only rally alongside Elizabeth Warren Saturday night in Portland underscored his frontrunner status in recent polling. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/19/g...
The White House is taking aim at what it calls rampant fraud in state Medicaid programs. But by focusing almost exclusively on blue states, it has handed ammunition to critics who say it mainly wants to embarrass its political enemies, not save taxpayer dollars. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/r...
Some of the Trump administration’s controversial new warehouse immigration detention centers are getting scaled back and postponed as states and cities fight back. | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/r...
Electric customers across New England will have to wait for anticipated refunds, after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted utilities a delay. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/ratep...
CMP is seeking to increase its revenue by $189 million, with $69.3 million coming from a temporary rate increase starting in July. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/cmps-...
As the midterms approach, Republican and Democratic election officials are split over a powerful federal computer program at the center of President Donald Trump’s quest to expose noncitizen voters and compile lists of voting-age Americans. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/r...
“I guarantee you, my state is not prepared to take over all of the things that the federal government is currently doing. We don’t have those resources,” said Rep. Chellie Pingree on plans to cut the Forest Service budget and rely more heavily on states. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/r...
While Maine will have a new independent office to oversee its troubled child welfare system, the Maine Legislature this session struggled to pass other reforms. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/17/d...
Democrats on a U.S. House spending panel slammed President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to farm and nutrition programs Thursday, as Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pledged to collaborate with members of both parties to address their concerns. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
President Trump said he will nominate Erica Schwartz, who served in his first administration, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a seat left vacant for months after his last director said she was ousted in a rift over childhood vaccines. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
“It’s the lack of transparency. It’s the way that good bills go to die. It’s the way that things disappear,” said Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham. “It’s the way that this body can give lip service to people when they really don’t mean it. It’s grotesque.” mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/g...
“...you suspended this pro-vaccine messaging campaign. But somehow you’re spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock,” said Rep. Linda T. Sánchez of California. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree is demanding the release of Olivia Andre, a 19-year-old asylum seeker who continues to be held in a Texas detention center despite her family returning home to Portland last month. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
The effort to force Trump to seek congressional authorization before further action in Iran failed 213-214. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, remained the only Democrat in opposition. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
Though public scrutiny of data centers is growing, 14 states do not disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax breaks. | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/r...
The White House budget director on Wednesday defended the administration’s latest request for Congress, testifying before the House Budget Committee that a 43% increase in defense spending and a 10% cut to domestic programs is the best path forward. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/r...
An effort to force President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for further war actions in Iran failed in the U.S. Senate for the fourth time Wednesday, with all but one Republican continuing to support the president’s Middle East conflict. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/r...
The Legislature backed some tax benefits for the Wabanaki Nations and the creation of a task force — narrow steps compared to the bills’ initial aims to fully restore sovereignty to the four tribes, walked back after opposition from Gov. Janet Mills. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/l...
Tucked into President Donald Trump’s new budget request is a plan that could dramatically change — and, critics say, slash — how much money and help states provide to people needing jobs and training. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/r...
Republicans in Congress are once again looking toward the complex budget reconciliation process as a way to achieve some of their policy goals without Democratic votes. | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/r...
A final push for a $45 million agriculture bond was not quite enough to get the legislation past the finish line and on the November ballot. That leaves the bond in limbo, likely to fail, unless lawmakers decide to take it up April 29, during “veto day." mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/d...
"Maine is part of a growing number of states that understand we can’t cut our way to prosperity and that the promise of benefits trickling down from the wealthy is a lie," writes Maura Pillsbury of @mecep.bsky.social mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/15/w...
The Maine Legislature officially adjourned late Tuesday, one day before the scheduled last day of session. However, several pieces of legislation remain in limbo and the path forward for those bills remains unclear. mainemorningstar.com/briefs/legis...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday he plans to use the complex reconciliation process to fund immigration enforcement for the next three years, though it wasn’t immediately clear if House Republicans were on the exact same page. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/14/r...
The Department of Justice’s stated reason for obtaining sensitive personal data on millions of voters masks the Trump administration’s true intention for obtaining state voter lists, Michigan’s top election official asserted in federal appeals court Monday. mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/14/r...