Top Ten - 040609
Submitted by Mike Tipping on April 6, 2009 - 10:37am
- Lawmakers air mercury bills
- Bill seeks to prevent racial profiling
- Father of Columbine victim to speak in Augusta
- Students To Urge Support For Privacy Legislation
- Editorial: Fix systems, not standards, of Maine welfare
- OpEd: (Perry) For fairness, time for revenue-neutral tax reform
- Merger repeal cools in Capitol
- Congressional Delegation Votes Along Party Lines On Obama's Budget
- Collins discusses stimulus, politics
- Rules laid out for April 24 gay marriage hearing
Top Ten - 040309
Submitted by Mike Tipping on April 3, 2009 - 10:23am
- Senate passes Obama budget plan without Snowe, Collins
- Cost, benefit at issue in bulb recycling debate
- Ethics panel ‘peels back the curtain’ on Scarborough PAC
- Residents speak out as Maine's gay marriage hearing nears
- OpEd: Civil marriage about equal protection of all under the law
- Reform Plan Would Lower State Tax Rate, Broaden Sales Tax
- Most at hearing oppose shift in state's tax burden
- Video: Protesters Gather At Rite Aid In Bangor
- 40-day vigil aims to end abortion
- Jacobson: Maine vs. the World
Top Ten - 040209
Submitted by Mike Tipping on April 2, 2009 - 2:36pm
- Audio: Eggs and Issues - Representatives John Piotti and Josh Tardy
- Video: Maine's Tourism Industry Against Proposed Tax Changes
- Opponents Of School Consolidation Turn Out At The Statehouse
- Panel confirms Mainer as small business chief
- Video: Maine Congressman Pushes Truck Weight Reform
- Smokers unfazed by 62-cent tax increase
- Voting frights
- Commission: Pro-gaming PAC didn't play by rules
- ‘Corridor’ bill draws skepticism
- Editorial: Compromise fair in vehicle deaths bill
Top Ten - 040109
Submitted by Mike Tipping on April 1, 2009 - 9:09am
- Public hearing Thursday on tax reform bill
- Pingree joins campaign finance push
- Blog: Governor King talks about leadership and Edmund Muskie
- NAACP backs same-sex marriage bill
- Video: Political Edge Fireworks
- Video: Bill Before Legislature Proposes Welfare Restrictions
- Trans fats unhealthful, but should they be banned?
- Panel busy with welfare, smoking bills
- Commission: State budget problems ahead
- Former candidate gets health post
Top Ten - 033009
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 30, 2009 - 4:32pm
- Editorial: The great humbling of paper
- Statehouse rejects a bill that rejects Columbus
- Tax reform plan to debut before panel next week
- New Report Finds Higher Number Of Uninsured
- Health care panel suggests cost cuts
- OpEd: (Craven) Future of Maine's seniors is at home
- GOP blasts proposal to let noncitizens vote
- 'Deficit is enormous'
- Maine's Clean Election system targeted for change
- Michaud lauds labor group report
Top Ten - 032709
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 27, 2009 - 1:37pm
- Bill would let non-citizens of U.S. vote in local elections
- Video: Immigrants Key To Maine's Future
- OpEd: Where's the GOP on tax reform?
- Consolidation Backfire: Big Districts Lose Federal Funds
- Maine lawmakers eye more revenue from sale of liquor
- Editorial: Maine should pass medication disposal law
- Legislature to debate food stamp soda ban
- Bill would help hospitals curb staph strain
- Ethics board fines casino backers for late financial disclosures
- Excise-tax bill ignites debate
Top Ten - 032609
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 26, 2009 - 9:29am
- Same-sex marriage
- O’Meara opens own Portland firm
- Video: Judicial Salary Bill Sparks Controversy at Statehouse
- Maine, New Brunswick Announce Plan For Energy Corridor
- Mainers risk health to save money
- OpEd: Kid-Safe Products Law a prescription for Mainers' good health
- Rediscovering The Life and Political Career Of Frances Perkins
- Editorial: Car Tax Break
- Berube, Rodrigue honored on Franco Day
- Lawmakers to weigh bid to cut car excise tax
Top Ten - 032509
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 25, 2009 - 10:28am
- Video: Senate Leader Touts Green Housing
- Bill To Keep Elderly In Their Homes Passes On Second Try
- OpEd: (Snowe) Reform Plan Should Tackle the Essentials
- State Seeks To Continue Clean Election Fund
- Lawmaker aims to limit paid signature solicitation
- Editorial: Lawmaker crosses ethical boundary
- Bill would nix ethanol in Maine
- State House buzzing about Baldacci's 'do
- Video: The Heart of Who We Are
- Bill would regulate land use to help slow climate change
Top Ten - 032409
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 24, 2009 - 12:11pm
- Podcast: (MECEP) Governor Baldacci on his State of the State address
- Greens First in Line for Charter Commission Race
- Legislature to Decide on Medical Marijuana Treatment
- OpEd: Bill would ensure Mainers are housed
- Group seeks funds to renew Maine's downtowns
- Inmates won't be moved out of Maine
- Editorial: Environmental Economics
- Politics & Other Mistakes: Light that failed
- Blog: “Crystal Ball” analyzes Maine governor’s race
- Snowe, Collins champion destroyer
Top Ten - 032309
Submitted by Mike Tipping on March 23, 2009 - 10:54am
I'm back!
- Former tribal rep offers her take on poor state-tribal relations
- Audio: WGAN - Paulette Beaudoin-Helmet Laws
- OpEd: Ministers need to shed light on same-sex marriage
- Editorial: Bill would expose entire state to a new racino
- Climate proposals feel a bit of a chill
- Maine review focuses on energy in special issue
- Fleecing the Pentagon
- Hannah Pingree on Stimulus, Tax Reform
- Verso President Visits State House
- League to Train Young Activists