The fallout from a Maine Democrat's late-night budget move
A legislator who backed major transportation funding less than a year ago moved to take $60 million out of the transportation budget.
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A legislator who backed major transportation funding less than a year ago moved to take $60 million out of the transportation budget.
Gov. Janet Mills joined a chorus of interests opposing the plan calling fora road funding raid and scaling back a pension tax break.
Republican House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham called for the removal of the Democratic House chair, Melanie Sachs, for creating a 'toxic and hostile' environment by dismissing Republican concerns.
Legislative Democrats endorsed a state spending plan Saturday that raids transportation funding and scales back a pension tax break.
The future looks smoother for communities in the Boothbay peninsula and Wiscasset area, at least it does for their roads. Several towns in the region are part of a multi-billion-dollar plan from the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) to...