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Government & Politics

  • LePage to host second round of job-creation workshops

    May 30, 2012

    Gov. Paul LePage is planning to host another series of industry-specific job creation workshops this summer, designed to allow business leaders to share ideas on job creation and improving Maine's economy.

    May 30, 2012

  • S&P raises Maine credit outlook to stable

    May 29, 2012

    One week after Moody's downgraded its outlook of Maine's bonds from stable to negative, national credit rating company Standard & Poor's raised its ou

    May 29, 2012

  • OPEGA: No fraudulent spending at MaineHousing

    May 29, 2012

    According to a report released Friday, recent spending by MaineHousing shows no signs of fraud. The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, however, did find some expenses that "might be questioned as unnecessary."

    May 29, 2012

  • LePage vetoes $20M R&D bond proposal

    May 29, 2012

    A $20 million bond for research and development approved earlier this month by the Legislature has been vetoed by Gov. Paul LePage.

    May 29, 2012

  • Cost cutting leads to layoffs at MaineGeneral

    May 29, 2012

    Fifteen people at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta will lose their jobs as part of a cost-cutting measure for the next fiscal year.

    May 29, 2012

  • Businesses debate impact of higher parking-garage rates

    Matt Dodge May 28, 2012

    Rates at two city-owned parking garages in downtown Portland are set to rise 40% in an attempt to drum up an additional $160,000 in revenue for the city's fiscal-year 2013 budget.

    Matt Dodge May 28, 2012

  • A new insurance law could help a growing number of tourism-based farms

    May 28, 2012

    When Wendy Sheriff and her husband, Mark, went looking for a lifestyle change six years ago, they moved from Massachusetts to St. Albans and bought a farm.

    May 28, 2012

  • $95M in bonds sent to governor

    May 28, 2012

    The Legislature recently approved $95 million in transportation, research and development, education, clean water and Land for Maine's Future bonds. Before the bonds are sent to voters in November, they must be approved by Gov.

    May 28, 2012

  • Fake Belfast lender scamming consumers

    May 25, 2012

    Local and state officials are warning consumers of a lending scam by a company claiming to be based in Belfast. The company, calling itself BellBrook Finance Center, scammed a Virginia family out of more than $2,000.

    May 25, 2012

  • Legislative candidate charged with theft

    May 25, 2012

    An Augusta man running for state representative has been charged with theft by deception for allegedly falsifying documents in an attempt to receive public campaign funding.

    May 25, 2012

  • EPA doles out $3.8M for brownfield remediation

    May 25, 2012

    The federal government has awarded a total of $3.8 million to eight Maine organizations and municipalities for the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in the state.

    May 25, 2012

  • Two more candidates for Snowe’s Senate seat

    May 24, 2012

    Two independent candidates are now officially in the running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe, having filed their nomination papers over the past week.

    May 24, 2012

  • BIA gets $5M grant for renovation

    May 24, 2012

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    May 24, 2012

  • Court: Government owes Maine Yankee $82M

    May 23, 2012

    The federal government owes Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. nearly $82 million in damages for failing to remove radioactive waste from the decommissioned nuclear reactor site in Wiscasset, a federal appeals court recently ruled.

    May 23, 2012

  • Mayor promotes new business-assistance money

    May 22, 2012

    Mark McAuliffe opened Apothecary By Design in the InterMed building in November of 2008, right at the start of the recession. On the surface, it didn't seem like a good time to open a pharmacy-drug-compounding-lab-café hybrid business.

    May 22, 2012

  • LePage signs LURC reform bill

    May 22, 2012

    Gov. Paul LePage yesterday signed legislation to revamp the Land Use Regulation Commission. The bill takes effect 90 days after the Legislature's adjournment.

    May 22, 2012

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The federal government shut down at midnight on Oct. 1 over a budget stalemate. The standoff in Washington comes on top of changing policies on tariffs and trade.

The shutdown curtailed the release of monthly reports on the country's trade balance, consumer prices, retail sales and producer price. In Maine, much of the Acadia National Park staff was put on furlough, though roads and campgrounds were still accessible. 

The last shutdown stretched over 35 days from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019.

A shutdown of less than two weeks is "unlikely to have a material impact on the economy or household finances," the president of a Maine credit union told Mainebiz last week.

But there's growing anxiety over how a protracted shutdown would affect the economy.

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