Letter to DC: We could use your help.

Bill Nemitz, Portland Maine columnist, writes to Secretary Sebelius to warn her of our Teapublican governor's threatened visit.

LePage Diminishes his Power with Inflammatory Statements

Our Teapublican governor uses threats to try and achieve his aims.

LePage Should Not Make Up Problems for Maine

A Republican owned paper takes Maine's Teapublican governor to task for mis- using Forbes Magazine listing Maine as last in a list of business-friendly states.

Doctor LePage offers Wrong Cure

Governor LePage seeks to cut 65,000 Mainers from Medicaid rolls- which would only make the problem worse. The legislature needs to take a hard look at other solutions.

Forbes: "Gov. LaPage Stretches the Truth."

"Stretches the truth. " What's new? Our Teapublican governor is a bombastic ideolgue.

LePage Says Medicaid Cuts a Neccesity

Under Republican rule, Maine is making up for cutting taxes, by cutting healthcare for the poor, elderly and sick.

Citing rift with LePage, Cabinet Member Quits

Commisioner of Maine Department of Marine Resources, Norm Olsen, resigns in a blaze of glory, criticizing our Teapublican governor's management style and accusing him of threatening to undermine the fishing industry in Portland, a Democratic bastion in a purple state.

Maine Voices

Local businessman counters argument that tax cuts for the wealthiest create jobs. Uses his own experience trying to get help help from state government to add 50 jobs to his business.

GOP seeks to deregulate environment on the State Level

Maine's Tea Party governor attempting to open up North Woods to development, loses fight to repeal ban on BPA from sippy cups, and joins other Republican governors in weakening environmental protection laws.

Of the 1 per cent, for the 1 per cent

Income inequality in America is hurting the economy as a whole.

LePage in Wonderland

An editorial describing how Gov. LePage gets it wrong in blaming teachers for their unfunded pensions.

LePage: Remove labor mural from Labor Dept.

More proof Maine's Tea Party Governor LePage is a clown.

DHH Attacks, Counterattacks

Combative Gov. LePage smears former Governor's administration. Democrats not staying silent.

Linked by Tragedy, Sister States Bond

A connection between Maine and her sister state in Japan stretching back 100 years by Bill Nemitz, Portland columnist.

Steven King calls GOP Governors the Three Stooges

Steven King finds horror in Republican statehouse policies

LePage forms new business council

LePAge forms a business council and immediately exempts it from Maine's Freedom of Information law so the public won't know who is advising him.

The Myth of the Greedy Geezer

Did you know 3/4 of people over 65 live on less than $34,000 a year?

Bill Nemitz: A pointed budget message hits the mark | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram

A teacher speaks out in Maine on the governor's proposed budget.

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