Olympia Snowe News

Gov. Paul LePage's re-election campaign will get a financial boost July 2 at a Kennebunkport fundraiser headlined by a potential 2016 White House contender.

Recent polls indicate that Congress has an approval rating of 15 percent and the Obama administration is not doing much better.

Thursday's announcement by Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud that he is eyeing a run for governor set in motion a wild scramble among Republicans and Democrats hoping to win Maine's 2nd Congressional District seat if he abandons it.

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Snowe, a moderate whose critics accuse her of being a RINO, was a state legislator in Maine before becoming a Congresswoman in 1979.

Maine's U.S. Sen. Angus King and his staff are busy packing and unpacking boxes once again this week - this time to move into permanent digs.

Hardly anyone noticed when Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, a Republican turned Independent, announced he was registering as a Democrat.

Recent revelations about the government's data mining operation should have a familiar ring to people in Maine: This is exactly what privacy advocates were warning us about in 2006.

In the 15 months since Sen. Olympia Snowe stunned the nation with her surprising renunciation, both Maine and the nation have been awaiting a more revealing explanation.

A Republican polling firm has found that the Massachusetts special election for the U.S. Senate is in a dead heat.

Hardly anyone noticed when Gov. Lincoln Chafee, of Rhode Island, a Republican turned independent, announced he was registering as a Democrat.

Ethan : Did you hear the news that Democratic state Sen. Seth Goodall of Sagadahoc County is resigning at the end of the session to become the New England administrator for the Small Business Administration? Ethan : As a matter of fact, he has.

Last week, Fox News' Chris Wallace spoon-fed former GOP Sen. Bob Dole one of the media's favorite questions: Could Ronald Reagan-or Dole-make it in today's Republican Party? "I doubt it," Dole answered.

Iowa senator Chuck Grassley is something of an odd character. As I've said before, he used to be considered a reasonable moderate, but in the last couple of years he has basically turned himself into a Tea Party wingnut, combining the ideological extremism, face palm-inducing stupidity, and general craziness that makes that political movement so ... (more)

Imagine every person in Bangor clustered on the waterfront. Some stand straight.

Maine's Senate majority leader is resigning his seat to oversee the U.S. Small Business Administration's New England region.

Over 31 years, the yearly fundaising bash of the bipartisan Womenwinning has become predominantly a DFL affair.

Last week, Fox News' Chris Wallace spoon-fed former GOP Sen. Bob Dole one of the media's favorite questions: Could Ronald Reagan -- or Dole -- make it in today's Republican Party? "I doubt it," Dole answered.

Over the past month, an oceanic divide has opened between European and American retailers on the question of how to respond to the manmade epidemic of deadly disasters in the garment industry of Bangladesh, the world's second largest clothing exporter.

During a roundtable discussion on NBC's Meet The Press, former White House advisor David Axelrod asked if she would support a law promoting workplace gender equality.