This morning our Political Analysts Phil Harriman and Ethan Strimling spoke with Sharon Rose and Jackie Ward to talk about Paul LePage’s change of heart in possibly accepting additional Medicaid funds to cover an additional 70,000 Maine people. Is this … Continue reading
This week, democrats in the Legislature unveiled their own plan to pay the MaineCare debt to the State’s hospitals on the same day Gov. Paul LePage brought his plan before a committee. Both plans would give hospitals the $185,000,000 they’re … Continue reading
Last Friday, Governor Paul LePage expressed his frustration over what he called the Legislature’s lack of quick movement on his plan to pay Maine’s hospitals back more than $400 million in MaineCare payments. At first, the governor said he wouldn’t … Continue reading
The republican leader in Maine’s House of Representatives says the differences between members of his party and democrats over taxes and spending could lead to a possible shutdown of State government if a new 2 year budget can’t be reached. … Continue reading
It all happened in a matter of hours, with no reference to committee, no public hearing, and no public work session. In what has to be a record, both the House and Senate voted on and sent to the governor — … Continue reading
In last night’s State of the State address, Gov. Paul LePage ended by saying: “I have two very simple requests. Let’s not raise taxes right now. Let’s pay our bills.” You might read that statement as saying he won’t raise … Continue reading
Watch Ethan & Phil breakdown the governor’s state of the state. LePage painted a pretty bleak picture of our current state of affairs and laid out a very detailed agenda of what he would do to turn the ship of … Continue reading
Watch Phil and Ethan discuss the Governor’s budget proposal to end revenue to municipalities. Both say it won’t pass as it stands, but they have different answers on what should be done. Additionally, they discuss the recent polling that shows Mainers support … Continue reading
Watch Strimling and Harriman debate the Forbes list calling Maine last in being business friendly. With business climate being the number one issue for LePage and Republicans, have their policies failed? Should LePage be publically agreeing with the list, or should … Continue reading
Watch Strimling & Harriman debate the Mayor of Lewiston’s comments about immigrants, the attacks on Charlie Summers and Angus King’s “effective” tax rate. We both agree the Mayor should apologize, we disagree on whether King has broken his pledge to … Continue reading
