While you may disagree with him, Eliot Cutler has been open with his various initiatives for Maine. Cutler has released plans on government reform, healthcare, and energy. Early in the campaign, Cutler made education policy a priority. The candidate stumped for charter schools last November. Cutler took swipes at what he sees as the status [...]
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Something is happening over here. It appears that some one out there has decided it is time to target Independent Eliot Cutler with an attack site and oppo dump. Cutlerfiles.com was brought to my attention yesterday by a high level staffer in the Maine Democratic Party, and buzz about the site has been circulating since [...]
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Congress may have ended their session before they were able to pass job-killing energy regulations, but the EPA is taking up the slack, gearing up to begin enforcing it’s “tailoring rule” starting in January, the EPA will begin issuing “permits” designed to “allow” carbon emitters like power plants. In return for receiving this gift from [...]
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By most objective analysis, we are headed for what is known in politics as a “wave” election. The concept shouldn’t be too unfamiliar to us, as we just experienced two successive wave years. In 2006, largely in response to voter dissatisfaction with the Iraq War as well as a Congress seemingly plagued with ethical problems, [...]
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Now that we have the comments from Maine’s Race to the Top application why we did so poorly is clear. In the coming weeks there will surely be some finger pointing and “It wasn’t me” going around. Some of it has begun already. So who deserves to wear the dunce cap? I wasn’t impressed by [...]
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The Memorial and Sarah Long bridges that connect Kittery to Portsmouth, New Hampshire are crumbling, and need to be repaired or replaced. The lifespan of the two bridges has ended at the same time, creating an unusually expensive problem. Libby Mitchell and her fellow Democrats in Augusta have ignored critical infrastructure like this for decades, [...]
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In the reverberating corridors of Portland’s City Hall this morning, the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC) and Matthew Rand, a summer resident of Peaks Island, threatened litigation if the City Council chooses not to annul a recently enacted amendment to the City’s Transportation Ordinance. The amendment in question would require Rand, a 19-year-old college sophomore [...]
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The second round results of the federal Race to the Top are in. We knew Maine wasn’t a finalist. It was unclear until now, exactly how Maine compared to other applicants. So, after all of the work put into Maine’s RttT application where did we finish? 33rd out of 36. Matt Stone is reporting that [...]
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Eliot Cutler has spoken a lot about regulations in the state during his campaign, and it has increased over the past month. Cutler now has a new proposal to address Maine’s regulatory environment. Could this proposal be just thing to get Maine’s economy going again? In conjunction with the release of his proposal, Cutler has [...]
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Oh, those poor oppressed politicians. Everyone is always trying to hear what they say when they are out in public – this is no way to conduct a democracy! For the second time in this campaign, a major candidate for Maine’s highest office has protested the recording of their public appearances – this time it [...]
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Bruce Poliquin Steps In A Hornet’s Nest On Guns
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Maine Republican Platform Becomes Political Football
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Two Maine Democrats Endorse Cutler
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Jim Cyr: If something is THAT libelous, he can always sue t...
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Dan Billings: Matt: During the primary, AI wrote lots of storie...
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Jack Straw: “This is very obviously backed by a lot of time an...
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