Tag: Paul LePage
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2018
Our View: On aging crisis, LePage offered no leadership
Maine stood still for eight years, while the needs of the elderly population multiplied.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Governor’s energy director steps down
Steven McGrath came from the private energy sector, where he specialized in finance and management.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
LePage veto of extra election funding stands as Legislature finally adjourns for 2018
On its last day of action in a marathon year, legislators also pass a change to foreclosure law, and some level not-so-veiled criticism at the governor.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2018
LifeFlight was used to transport LePage to hospital during health scare
The governor declines to talk about a medical problem that resulted in him being taken from New Brunswick to Presque Isle to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2018
New law lets some Maine veterans skip course work and take nursing exam
Those hoping to be fast-tracked and become LPNs must have served in a medical corps, spent at least 12 months providing bedside patient care and left the military with an honorable discharge.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2018
LePage rips up lawmakers’ letter, says senator he called ‘repugnant’ owes him an apology
LePage, who called Republican Tom Saviello ‘the most repugnant human being,’ says he’ll apologize when Saviello does, or ‘when hell freezes over.’
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2018
LePage says he won’t reinstate nominations to Maine boards
The governor withdrew more than a dozen nominations after a legislative committee rejected his pick for the Maine Turnpike Authority board.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2018
LePage vows to keep denying Medicaid applications until lawmakers ‘give me the money’
Mainers voted last fall to expand the health insurance program and lawmakers approved the funding in June, but the governor vetoed the bill.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2018
Former LePage press secretary gets new job with state
Adrienne Bennett, LePage’s spokeswoman for six years, has left her bank job to work on legislative affairs for the Labor Department.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2018
LePage says he’ll continue to block payments to Attorney General’s Office
The Republican wants Democrat Janet Mills, the attorney general and gubernatorial candidate, to provide legal bills as detailed as those done by private law firms.
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