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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Dozens of vetoes discounted as Maine legislators end contentious session
The 65 bills are already law, they say, but the governor disagrees and is headed to court. Meanwhile, a key land-conservation bond veto is sustained.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Legislature won’t consider latest vetoes by LePage, setting up court battle
Neither the House nor the Senate agrees to take up the bills, paving the way for LePage to ask the state’s highest court to intervene.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2015
LePage prepares bill to save conservation bonds, but critics wary of motive, legality
The governor’s plan comes a day before the Legislature is set to adjourn, and after his repeated refusal to sell $6.5 million in bonds approved by voters in 2010.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2015
LePage readies request for top court’s opinion in veto dispute with Maine Legislature
He wants justices to issue an opinion on deadlines for acting on bills – and whether 70 measures have become law – but the Legislature is likely to adjourn before the court rules.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2015
Referendum may target Maine’s new asylum-seeker law
If Maine’s Supreme Court rules that Gov. Paul LePage failed to veto the immigrant aid bill on time, three lawmakers and an activist say they’ll try to kill it at the ballot box.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2015
Some hits, lots of misses as Maine’s legislative session winds to a close
Republicans and Democrats watched some key policy initiatives fail, but packed priorities into the state budget.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2015
Maine watchdog agency to investigate LePage’s funding threat in Mark Eves hiring
The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee approves the investigation unanimously after the governor’s attorney says the agency lacks jurisdiction over LePage.
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PublishedJune 30, 2015
Good Will-Hinckley to pay Mark Eves $30,000 for severing contract
The House speaker would have earned $120,000 a year as Good Will-Hinckley president, until the governor interceded.
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PublishedJune 30, 2015
Oversight committee set to rule on investigating Maine governor in Mark Eves case
A Republican co-chairman calls for a ‘rational, bipartisan venue’ where allegations of an abuse of power can be examined.
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PublishedJune 30, 2015
After long, fierce fight, Maine gets a budget and avoids a shutdown
Legislators override Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the two-year, $6.7 billion plan, which contains modest property and income tax cuts.
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