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Shutdown ends, but more federal chaos looms for states | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/14/r...
Shutdown ends, but more federal chaos looms for states • Maine Morning Star
Though Congress ended the record-setting federal government shutdown, many questions remain for states that were already wading through seismic federal changes.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Shutdown ends, but more federal chaos looms for states | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/14/r...
Air travel, SNAP benefits, back pay at issue as federal government slowly reopens | via States Newsroom mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Air travel, SNAP benefits, back pay at issue as federal government slowly reopens • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The record 43-day government shutdown that ended Wednesday night scrambled air travel, interrupted food assistance and forced federal workers to go without a paycheck for weeks. It also…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Air travel, SNAP benefits, back pay at issue as federal government slowly reopens | via States Newsroom mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says • Maine Morning Star
Homicide rates among pregnant women increase with the rate of firearm ownership, according to a state-by-state study published this week in the medical journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers found…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Higher gun ownership rates lead to more gun homicides of pregnant women, new study says | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
If elected, Hannah Pingree pledges $100M annual investment in plan to address housing crisis mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/i...
If elected, Hannah Pingree pledges $100M annual investment in plan to address housing crisis • Maine Morning Star
Gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree on Thursday released her plan for improving Maine’s housing crisis. Pingree released her five-point plan to bolster affordable housing in the state at a press…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If elected, Hannah Pingree pledges $100M annual investment in plan to address housing crisis mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/i...
As health costs spike, a sour and divided Congress escapes one shutdown to face another | via @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
As health costs spike, a sour and divided Congress escapes one shutdown to face another • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — Congress has roughly two months to find bipartisan agreement to curb rising health insurance costs if lawmakers want to avoid another government shutdown. That herculean task would be…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As health costs spike, a sour and divided Congress escapes one shutdown to face another | via @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Maine among states still dealing with severe bus driver shortages | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Maine among states still dealing with severe bus driver shortages • Maine Morning Star
School districts have made some progress in addressing the national shortage of school bus drivers, but there still aren’t as many drivers as there were in 2019, according to a new study. The number…
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November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Maine among states still dealing with severe bus driver shortages | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/13/r...
Government reopens after 43 days: Trump signs bill ending record shutdown mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
US House expected to clear bill reopening the government after record-shattering shutdown • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House plans to approve a stopgap spending bill Wednesday evening that will end the record-breaking 43-day government shutdown once President Donald Trump signs the legislation. …
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November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Government reopens after 43 days: Trump signs bill ending record shutdown mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
Trump administration to mostly pay full SNAP benefits ‘within 24 hours’ of shutdown end | via @fischler.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
Trump administration to mostly pay full SNAP benefits 'within 24 hours' of shutdown end • Maine Morning Star
The Trump administration will release full benefits for most participants in the nation’s major federal nutrition program within 24 hours of the reopening of the federal government, a U.S. Department…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump administration to mostly pay full SNAP benefits ‘within 24 hours’ of shutdown end | via @fischler.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
US House expected to clear bill reopening the government after record-shattering shutdown | via @statesnewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
US House expected to clear bill reopening the government after record-shattering shutdown • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House plans to approve a stopgap spending bill Wednesday evening that will end the record-breaking 43-day government shutdown once President Donald Trump signs the legislation. …
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November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
US House expected to clear bill reopening the government after record-shattering shutdown | via @statesnewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
Rep. Pingree facing Democratic primary with entrance of South Berwick legislator in CD1 race mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
Rep. Pingree facing Democratic primary with entrance of South Berwick legislator in CD1 race • Maine Morning Star
The entrance of another Democrat in the race for Maine’s 1st Congressional District has teed up a primary for incumbent U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who is seeking her 10th term. State Rep. Tiffany…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Rep. Pingree facing Democratic primary with entrance of South Berwick legislator in CD1 race mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
US House Dems say newly released Epstein emails show Trump knew about abuse mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
US House Dems say newly released Epstein emails show Trump knew about abuse • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats investigating the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released emails Wednesday they say show President Donald Trump knew about the financier’s abuse of underage girls…
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November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
US House Dems say newly released Epstein emails show Trump knew about abuse mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/r...
Pivoting from Senate race, Democrat Jordan Wood to instead run for Rep. Golden’s House seat mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/p...
Pivoting from Senate race, Democrat Jordan Wood to instead run for Rep. Golden’s House seat • Maine Morning Star
Democrat Jordan Wood has switched from running to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins to instead vie for Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s now-open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Pivoting from Senate race, Democrat Jordan Wood to instead run for Rep. Golden’s House seat mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/p...
Commentary: Mainers are still showing up for Platner and the party needs to reckon with why mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/m...
Mainers are still showing up for Platner and the party needs to reckon with why • Maine Morning Star
Five hundred in Ogunquit, another 700 in Damariscotta and Portland, and a packed theater in Bath last week. Despite a running list of foul-mouthed controversies and staffing defections, Graham…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Commentary: Mainers are still showing up for Platner and the party needs to reckon with why mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/m...
Maine hemp farmers say deal to reopen the government would decimate industry mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/m...
Maine hemp farmers say deal to reopen the government would decimate industry • Maine Morning Star
For 35 years, Charles and Linda Gill have run a family farm in Bowdoinham. While initially focused on cut flowers and herbs, they shifted to growing hemp after regulated production was legalized. The…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Maine hemp farmers say deal to reopen the government would decimate industry mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/m...
Proposal to restore gun rights after nonviolent felonies back before lawmakers mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/p...
Proposal to restore gun rights after nonviolent felonies back before lawmakers • Maine Morning Star
Maine lawmakers will meet Wednesday afternoon to discuss a proposal that would restore someone’s right to possess a firearm after being convicted of a nonviolent felony. The Legislature’s Judiciary…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Proposal to restore gun rights after nonviolent felonies back before lawmakers mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/12/p...
US Supreme Court maintains temporary freeze on full SNAP benefits for November mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
US Supreme Court maintains temporary freeze on full SNAP benefits for November • Maine Morning Star
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended through Thursday a pause on lower courts’ orders that the Trump administration authorize a full month of benefits for a food assistance program that 1 in 8…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
US Supreme Court maintains temporary freeze on full SNAP benefits for November mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
The shutdown tug-of-war over SNAP benefits: a timeline | via @fischler.bsky.social @ashleymurray.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
The shutdown tug-of-war over SNAP benefits: a timeline • Maine Morning Star
Payments for November for the nation’s main food assistance program have been delayed during the government shutdown, amid a confusing mess of contradicting guidance from the Trump administration and…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The shutdown tug-of-war over SNAP benefits: a timeline | via @fischler.bsky.social @ashleymurray.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
Hemp provision in federal shutdown legislation would nullify Maine law | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
Hemp provision in federal shutdown legislation would nullify Maine law • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — Kentucky’s two U.S. senators sparred this week over the future of the country’s hemp industry — one arguing that a provision attached to the package that will reopen the government will…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Hemp provision in federal shutdown legislation would nullify Maine law | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
Massachusetts offshore wind port uncertain after federal funding cuts | via @CanaryMedia.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/m...
Massachusetts offshore wind port uncertain after federal funding cuts • Maine Morning Star
Barbara Kelley remembers when her car and windows were routinely coated with a thin film of coal dust that had drifted over from the power plant on the edge of her neighborhood in Salem,…
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November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Massachusetts offshore wind port uncertain after federal funding cuts | via @CanaryMedia.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/m...
The midterm ballot measure battles have already begun | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
The midterm ballot measure battles have already begun • Maine Morning Star
A year out from the 2026 midterm elections, legal fights and procedural maneuvering over ballot measures and referendums are already well underway in states across the country.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The midterm ballot measure battles have already begun | via @Stateline.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/11/r...
US Senate in bipartisan vote passes bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
US Senate on verge of passing bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate was on track to approve a stopgap spending bill Monday that will end the longest government shutdown in American history once the measure becomes law later this week.…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
US Senate in bipartisan vote passes bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
Mainers receiving November SNAP benefits though it remains unclear who is paying mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/m...
Mainers receiving November SNAP benefits though it remains unclear who is paying • Maine Morning Star
Mainers have begun to receive food assistance benefits for the month, despite conflicting guidance from the Trump administration, which continued its effort to withhold funding Monday. About 97% of…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Mainers receiving November SNAP benefits though it remains unclear who is paying mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/m...
US Senate on verge of passing bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
US Senate on verge of passing bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate was on track to approve a stopgap spending bill Monday that will end the longest government shutdown in American history once the measure becomes law later this week.…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
US Senate on verge of passing bill to end record-breaking shutdown, House up next | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @statesnewsroom.com mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
Here’s the list of newly pardoned Trump fake electors, other allies mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
Here's the list of newly pardoned Trump fake electors, other allies • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on Monday he pardoned his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other people allegedly involved in the attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Here’s the list of newly pardoned Trump fake electors, other allies mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
FDA to remove black box warning from hormone replacement therapy drugs | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...
FDA to remove black box warning from hormone replacement therapy drugs • Maine Morning Star
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday it plans to remove warnings from hormone replacement therapy drugs that can be used to address symptoms of menopause, saying the…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
FDA to remove black box warning from hormone replacement therapy drugs | via @jennifershutt.bsky.social @StatesNewsroom.org mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/10/r...