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Maine: New York Times

March 3, 2009 - 10:45 am
NEWS FEED: Kennebec Journal

Snowe/Collins vote to give DC a seat

By Susan M. Cover

Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins voted last week to give Washington D.C. a representative in the U.S. House.

Snowe and Collins were two of only six Republicans to support the measure. The New York Times reports that a similar bill is certain to pass the House and that President Barack Obama has indicated he will sign it.

However, the measure will end up in court as part of a Constitutional battle over whether DC can be granted a representative even though it is not a state.

The Senate version also gave Utah another seat, which would increase the size of the House from 435 to 437.

Did Snowe and Collins do the right thing?

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February 11, 2009 - 03:41 pm
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

NYTimes on Snowe, Collins

By Gerald Weinand

Yesterday the New York Times had this story about Maine's two senators and their role in the negotiations around the stimulus:
Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe are not close friends, but they have plenty in common. They both represent Maine. They share a centrist ideology. They are proper and genteel. And they can drive their Republican colleagues to distraction.

Much to the dismay of their fellow Republicans and to loud applause from Democrats, the two senators from Maine have put President Obama on the precipice of winning passage of an $800-billion-plus economic recovery plan rejected by almost everyone else in Congress who shares their party affiliation.

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February 4, 2009 - 09:55 pm
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

An open letter from J. M. Keynes to Franklin Roosevelt

By Gerald Weinand

John Maynard Keynes, whose name has been in the news a lot lately, sent this open letter to then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dated 16 December 1933, nine months into FDR's first term. It was printed in the New York Times later that month; I put all of it here:
Dear Mr President,

1.  You have made yourself the Trustee for those in every country who seek to mend the evils of our condition by reasoned experiment within the framework of the existing social system. If you fail, rational change will be gravely prejudiced throughout the world, leaving orthodoxy and revolution to fight it out.

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Mon, 12/08/2008 - 11:38

‘Go forth and seeketh the Women of Maine’

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe got a mention in a New York Times column this weekend concerning their role in the upcoming Senate term.

Columnist Gail Collins said “the nexus of power” will lie with the Maine senators. When interviewed by the Times, Snowe was quick to include Sen. Arlen Spector (R-Pa.)

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Fri, 11/21/2008 - 11:00

Maine’s budget shortfall is bad, but is far from the worst

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The New York Times has this interactive map of budget woes across the country. It lists Maine’s as a $274 million budget gap -- $208 per capita.

The shortfall is a dark cloud that looms over the Legislature as it prepares for the next session. Still, many states have it worse. Here is a list of those that have a budget shortfall of more than $300 per capita:

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Sun, 10/26/2008 - 12:11

New York Times: Collins ‘gliding toward a third term’

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The New York Times has a story today about the race between Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor) and U.S. Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland).

The Times singles Collins out as a Republican who was able to survive in an election cycle where many of her colleagues struggle for their political lives. They point to Sens. Gordon Smith (R-Oregon) and John Sununu (R-N.H.) as examples. Both are in tough reelection fights.

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