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Maine Lawmakers Facing Crunch as End of Session Looms

Maine Public | By Mal Leary,
Irwin Gratz
Published June 5, 2017 at 8:21 AM EDT
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The Maine House chamber, seen in this file photo taken in 2014.

It's approaching crunch time in the Maine Legislature.  That means a few weeks of increasing amounts of increasingly significant business.  Maine Public Radio's Morning Edition host Irwin Gratz talks with Mal Leary at the State House about what legislators are up to, and what they are facing.

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Journalist Mal Leary spearheads Maine Public's news coverage of politics and government and is based at the State House.
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Irwin Gratz
Irwin was born and reared in New York City and, while he never hiked miles to school, he did walk up six flights of stairs every day to the apartment his family lived in until he was nearly 19. Irwin remains a lover of subway rides, egg creams, and the New York Mets.
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