2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (594+ words) (The Center Square) — Maine is being pressured to ramp up oversight of its Medicaid programs amid increasing federal scrutiny of alleged fraud and wasteful spending. On Tuesday, the group Lead Maine delivered more than 3,000 certified voter signatures to the state…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (865+ words) PORTLAND, Maine — Democratic US Senate hopeful Graham Platner is facing a firestorm over everything from his treatment of women to a Nazi-linked tattoo, but try telling that to the crowd at an Elks Lodge here Sunday. The embattled candidate took…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1211+ words) (The Center Square) - Voters in Maine will head to the polls Tuesday in high profile primary races that could help determine control of Congress. The races have garnered national attention due to controversies surrounding candidates and for outcomes that are…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (941+ words) Speaking to a crowd of hundreds in a costal resort town, with Tuesday's primary around the corner, the first-time candidate pitched himself as a man with an imperfect past who remains Democrats' best chance to oust Republican Sen. Susan Collins…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (533+ words) SULLIVAN, Maine — Alleged sleazeball Senate hopeful Graham Platner's dirty laundry is the talk of his tiny Maine town just days ahead of a nail-biter primary — with some saying the Democrat's unsavory behavior is not fit for office. Platner — who is…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (523+ words) WASHINGTON — He’s even lost “The View.” Hosts of ABC’s “The View” turned on Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner, ripping the horny oyster farmer for his alleged extramarital sexting scandal, voicing their disgust at his behavior. “It is disturbing; it is…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (321+ words) A high-profile rift within the Democratic party widened on Monday when Massachusetts Representative Jake Auchincloss publicly reiterated his stance against Graham Platner, the party’s presumptive U.S. Senate nominee in Maine. Speaking on CNN, Auchincloss called Platner’s past Nazi tattoo scandal…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (254+ words) Teenagers are known for dishing out the dirt, but not quite like this. Students at a high school in Maine were fed potting soil at a community service event raising money to fight hunger, in a bizarre incident the school…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (444+ words) Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday she was suspending her campaign for the US Senate — clearing the way for far-left candidate Graham Platner to face five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins in November. “While I have the drive and passion,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (225+ words) Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed the nation’s first proposed statewide data center moratorium bill Thursday, blocking a construction freeze set to run through Nov. 1, 2027. Mills, a Democrat seeking her party’s nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins, said she would…...