Blaine House 2010
Waterville Mayor Paul LePage won the Republican Party’s nomination for governor by a convincing margin Tuesday.
LePage, as of 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, was leading 74 percent of precincts with a 37 percent share of the vote in …
Peter Mills, a Republican candidate for governor, remembers the 1968 establishment of the University of Maine System as “one of the smartest things” the Maine Legislature has ever done.
As a young man, he remembers hearing of …
Pat McGowan, a Democratic candidate for governor, believes funding for the University of Maine System has been lost in the shuffle of many state government cuts. He is calling for more funding of Maine’s higher education …
John Whitcomb, an Independent candidate in the 2010 Maine gubernatorial election, works seven days a week as a marine electrician at Bath Iron Works, a shipyard in Sagadahoc County. He can’t afford to leave work to …
Democrats voting in the June 8 primary for the 2010 gubernatorial election in November will not see Donna Dion’s name on the ballot.
She didn’t accumulate the 2,000 signatures of fellow Democrats she needed by 5 p.m. …
Les Otten, a Republican candidate for governor, believes talk of program and faculty cuts in the University of Maine System stem from lost revenues from a massive amount of layoffs since January 2008.
“Every discussion that we …
Libby Mitchell believes the University of Maine System is front and center in the future of Maine’s economic development. President of the Maine Senate and longtime state legislator, Mitchell said the legislature’s support of the system …
Waterville mayor Paul LePage came from a poor Franco-American family in Lewiston. He didn’t master English until he was well into his teens. His SATs were administered in French.
The Republican candidate for governor said the cuts …
John Richardson believes the cuts proposed by the University of Maine’s Academic Program Prioritization Working Group are the result of a state government unfriendly to higher education.
“I think it’s an indicator of the tough financial times …
Steve Abbott believes cuts within the University of Maine System, such as those proposed by UMaine’s Academic Program Prioritization Working Group, are due to elements beyond the university’s control.
“It reflects two things. One, it reflects the …
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