When Gov.-elect Janet Mills takes office in January, she will likely have the power to torpedo new Medicaid work requirements approved by the federal government last week at the request of outgoing Republican Gov. Paul LePage. Similar work requirements in Arkansas, the first state to implement them, led to nearly 17,000 people losing their Medicaid […]
2018
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Trump threatens to close southern border as parties trade blame for shutdown
The president on Friday reissued threats to shut the U.S.-Mexico border and terminate aid to Central American countries.
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Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Shutdown forces FTC to suspend investigation of Facebook
The investigation into whether Facebook’s handling of user data violated a consent order, has run out of funds.
Posted inTimes Record
Next nominee for Mills Cabinet sees better broadband access as key to Maine economy
AUGUSTA — Gov.-elect Janet Mills nominated the woman charged with expanding broadband access in Maine to be her economic development commissioner Thursday. Heather Johnson, who has a background in public- and private-sector economic development and communications, now heads the ConnectME Authority, the agency responsible for expanding Maine’s broadband network. Mills pledged during the campaign to […]
Posted inTimes Record
Lewiston police find body of armed man after search in woods
LEWISTON — Police scoured the woods next to the Maine Turnpike on Thursday afternoon after a despondent man ran into the woods there armed with a handgun. More than a dozen officers searched for more than an hour before the 59-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. During the tense hour-and-a-half […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
Portland City Hall art exhibit opens Jan. 8
PORTLAND — A 5:30 p.m. reception Jan. 8 opens the “Perspectives” art exhibition at City Hall. Featuring work by artists at The Art Department, and Publication Studio at 611-613 Congress St., the exhibition is sponsored by the city’s Disability Advisory Committee and runs through Jan. 18. The free, public reception will be held in the State of Maine […]
Posted inTimes Record
Lewiston brawl injures 5 people Thursday night
LEWISTON — At least five people were hurt Thursday night in a brawl on Birch Street following a candlelight vigil downtown. Police said the injured suffered mostly bumps, cuts and a possible broken nose in the 8:45 p.m. scrap at Birch and Blake streets. Witnesses reported seeing large groups of people, some of them armed […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Guest commentary: This holiday season, I’m standing with migrants
This holiday season — a time so often associated with bringing family My thoughts keep turning to the families in the migrant caravans making their way to the U.S. southern border. I spent four days in Mexico last month with my organization, the American Friends Service Committee, to assess the needs of participants in the […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Giving Voice: On food access and the farm bill
On Dec. 20, President Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the farm bill, into law. Since 1933, different iterations of the farm bill have largely influenced the state of food accessibility in this country, and this time is no different. For those of us living in suburbs, urban areas, and […]
Posted inTimes Record, Times Record Opinion
Gordon L. Weil: Trump policies, style bring uncertainty
The biggest problem facing the U.S. is not immigration, health care or a trade war. It is uncertainty. The inability of business leaders, pension fund managers, foreign government heads, Congress and individuals to count on usual practices and policies has created deep worries. The stock market is not a reliable measure of all these concerns, […]