After such a huge political year in 2008, it's going to be pretty much impossible to top it in 2009. Yet, with a new president, a recession, people lining up to run for governor, and a scandal or two that we can't predict, it will be an interesting year.
We're putting the blog on hiatus now that the campaign season has ended.
Dieter Bradbury, our political correspondent, is on vacation. And the other members of the Political Extra team have moved back to their regular beats covering news and issues in greater Portland.
House Speaker Glenn Cummings, D-Portland, whose term ends in just a couple of weeks, is going back to school to get his doctorate in public policy and higher education.
Skip Greenlaw, chairman of the Maine Coalition to Save Schools, is reporting that his group has 50,771 signatures on a petition to overturn the state
Those of us in the news business were shocked Friday to learn of the death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert.
Russert, 58, collapsed at work on Friday and died.
The Colby College Republicans are hosting conservative author Gregg Jackson for a lecture tonight called
With several GOP presidential hopefuls trying to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan, he
Welcome to a new blog that will explore Maine politics, and possibly touch on national politics from time to time as well.
