Scott Thistle

Staff Writer

Scott Thistle is the State House reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He has covered politics and government in Maine since 2006. Prior to that he served as the State House reporter for the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth, Minnesota. A Maine native, Thistle has worked in journalism since 1990, when he got his start at a weekly newspaper in rural Oxford County, Maine. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and an active volunteer with the National Ski Patrol. He resides with his wife, Amy and his two sons Finn and Kai, in Auburn, Maine. @thisdog

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Published
November 7, 2016

Voters, candidates and clerks gear up for busy Election Day in Maine

Besides helping elect a president today, the state is voting on two congressional seats, the makeup of the Legislature, six ballot questions, and local races and issues.
Published
November 7, 2016

LePage’s next 2-year budget proposal, his last, may trigger new battles

He’s likely to again pursue an income tax cut and a broader sales tax, ideas that haven’t gotten far in past Legislatures.
Published
November 3, 2016

Under Maine’s clean election system, public pays for some dubious items

Purchases of party beads, drill batteries and T-shirts are permitted, but critics say that’s not what voters were promised and there are better uses for taxpayer money.
Published
October 31, 2016

LePage’s PAC gives more money to Maine Republican Party

With fundraising assistance from the governor, ICE PAC contributes $110,000 to help Republican candidates in their legislative races.
Published
October 30, 2016

Clinton extends her lead in latest Maine Sunday Telegram poll of voters

The late-October numbers favor the Democrat, even in the more conservative 2nd District, which shifted markedly since September.
Published
October 27, 2016

Maine Senate ethics panel clears legislator of allegation he defrauded taxpayers

Republican Sen. Ron Collins did not act improperly in handling expense reimbursements, as two Democrats charged, the committee rules in a 4-1 vote.
Published
October 26, 2016

Leading Republican senator facing 2 ethics investigations and sister’s lawsuit

Maine’s ethics commission responds to a complaint by a sibling of Assistant Senate Majority Leader Andre Cushing over his handling of funds in a family corporation.
Published
October 26, 2016

Donald Trump will be back in Maine for 5th time on Friday

As candidates race toward Election Day the Republican is hoping to score at least one Electoral College vote in the 2nd District.
Published
October 25, 2016

Maine Senate ethics panel set to meet over charges lawmakers bilked taxpayers on expense reports

Sens. Ron Collins and Andre Cushing say they are being wrongly accused by Democrats of ‘double dipping’ on their travel and lodging reimbursements
Published
October 25, 2016

Donald Trump Jr., on Maine campaign swing, pledges his father will protect gun rights

He also assures about 175 people at a gun shop in Gray that the Republican nominee intends to ‘drain the swamp’ in Washington.

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