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Evan Wolfson, executive director of the national gay-rights group Freedom to Marry, said the loss in Maine underscores "the fact that we need to continue those conversations and make ourselves visible as families in communities." He added, "It shows we have just not done it long enough and deep enough, even in a place like Maine." But Maggie ...

Thursday, November 05, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Long thought of as a "liberal" state by national political observers, Maine, whose voters on Tuesday voted down gay marriage, proved that cultural conservatism is -- at least on this issue -- alive and well in the Northeast.

By Mark Pattison Source: Published: Thursday, November 05, 2009 Miriam Conners and her son Spencer of Stand for Marriage Maine canvass in Yarmouth, Maine.

A Penobscot County young adult is the second death linked to H1N1 influenza in Maine, and the first since August, reported the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, in a press release Friday morning, Nov.

Citizens Unified for Maine's Future, the coalition of municipal, business and citizen advocates who were opposed to TABOR, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, were celebrating their victory last night.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 4:49 pm US/Eastern GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press Writer AUGUSTA, Maine A brief debate broke out among legislative leaders over a proposed bill declaring that vaccinations cannot be mandatory, on the same day that Maine's public health director announced that swine flu has been confirmed in all 16 of the state's counties.

The Democratic governor of New York, David Paterson, has issued a proclamation calling for an extraordinary session of both houses of the New York State Legislature to tackle a handful of issues.

WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 4, 2009 .- The U.S. bishops are praising Maine's voters for speaking out in favor of the truth of marriage and repealing a state law that would have allowed same-sex "marriage." Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville said this in a statement released today on behalf of the U.S. episcopal conference.

Supporters of a gay marriage law rejected by voters took heart Wednesday in the 47 percent they received in a referendum that drew a turnout close to what's seen in a presidential election year.

Jesse Connolly gives a grim yet unofficial announcement regarding the defeat on Question 1 at election night headquarters in Portland, Maine, early Wednesday morning, Nov.

Voters approved a referendum making Maine the fifth state to allow retail pot dispensaries, but medical marijuana advocates say it won't become like California, where hundreds of marijuana shops have popped up and come under critical scrutiny.

A narrowly leading "everything but marriage" ballot measure gave hope Wednesday to gay rights' activists that Washington might soon be the first state in which a measure dealing with equality for same-sex couples won voter affirmation.

Check out this photo of the "Yes on 1" people rejoicing after taking marriage rights away from millions of Mainers.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Maine is thanking the state's voters for repealing the state's gay marriage law.

The polls have closed and the ballots are being counted for a full slate of referendums including gay marriage that Mainers voted on Tuesday.

This November 3 the people of Maine will decide whether to keep a law, passed just six months ago, that made Maine the fifth state to legalize gay marriage.

Residents casted votes on questions involving taxes, medical marijuana, schools and transportation funding.

One year after California's Proposition 8 struck down gay marriage in the largest state in the Union, Maine has become the latest battleground in the debate over the definition of marriage.

Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap is standing by his prediction of 35 percent voter turnout despite massive get-out-the-vote efforts on the same-sex marriage referendum.

"As Maine goes, so goes the nation" is a political clichA© long since out of use.