Kevin Miller
State House CorrespondentKevin joined Maine Public’s reporting team in 2021 after nearly 25 years in newspapers. He covered the State House for the Portland Press Herald as well as the Bangor Daily News and spent a few years on Capitol Hill as a Washington correspondent. A graduate of New York University, Kevin wrote about politics, higher education, and the environment for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland before finally landing in Maine in 2005. In his spare time, Kevin would like to be kayaking, hiking, camping or fishing but also enjoys a good history book or a yard project. He and his wife live in the Midcoast with their short-legged but big-hearted dog.
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Maine lawmakers are plodding toward a mid-April adjournment with a slew of contentious issues to resolve, including gun safety and a new spending plan. Meanwhile, a divided Congress continues its obsession with the November election in its quest for historically unproductive governance.
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The bill is one of multiple measures that lawmakers are considering following a spate of high-profile deaths among children whose families were part of Maine's child welfare programs.
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In dueling letters, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and his counterparts have each accused the other of attempting to intimidate policymakers in other states on laws dealing with gender-affirming care and abortion.
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The bill has the backing of Wabanaki leaders as well as the Mills administration and Maine's attorney general. But it represents a dramatically scaled-back version of the tribal sovereignty measure that was originally proposed.
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In a highly unusual move, 15 attorneys general from across the country denounced the proposal in Maine as "constitutionally deficient" and accused proponents seeking to infringe on their states' policy-making.
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The backers of a Maine ballot initiative to limit donations to super PACs say their proposal could set a national precedent.
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The Associated Press called the races for Biden and Trump not long after the polls closed in Maine at 8 p.m. as election returns began trickling in from across the state.
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The proposal seeks to address long-standing concerns about suicide rates and options for people in a mental health crisis. But it also aims to improve emergency communications with the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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By presidential primary standards, this year’s Super Tuesday contests are relatively anti-climactic because the Republican and Democratic tickets are pretty much set at this point. But electors are still at stake in Maine.
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Justice Michaela Murphy wrote that the proposed settlement between the state and the ACLU of Maine lacks enforcement capability and, in the meantime, the "constitutional crisis" over a lack of attorneys is getting worse.