by Gina Hamilton
And then, a mere two weeks before it would have all been over, outgoing President Donald Trump invited his bully-boys to Washington D.C. on the day when Congress was to meet to finally, completely, name Joseph Biden as the president-elect.
He'd been grooming them for ...
Posted Wednesday, January 6, 2021
by Gina Hamilton
At the first of three presidential debates, held September 29 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, Fox News moderator Chris Wallace had his work cut out for him. President Donald Trump (R) and Vice President Joe Biden (D) came out swinging. It was not a ...
Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
A friend pointed out that we had begun the year 2020 in 1974, as the Trump impeachment scandal unfolded. We then jumped back in time to 1918 as the largest pandemic in a century struck the world. Now we're in 1968, with race riots stemming from ...
Posted Monday, June 1, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
So we are entering the next month of lockdown, except for essential employees, which means that I'll be working at home, but my husband will be serving coffee at Starbucks, because mocha frappacinos are essential to the economy. And because I'll be at home, and ...
Posted Sunday, May 3, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
April 1, 2020
There was a two and a half hour long press conference yesterday with the President and the pandemic response team. It became clear in the course of that conference that even if everything was done absolutely right -- and it can't be, because there ...
Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 25, 2020
The problem we as a society face is that the president doesn't understand exponential mathematics. He is looking at a society where coronavirus is still multiplying and trying to will the thing away. An Easter timeline would be a disaster on many levels ...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 22, 2020
The news isn't great. In fact, it's worse than not great. People in Maine are dying; schools are expected to be closed indefinitely, earliest possible return is April 27 and it could be well beyond that; there are daily painful requests for ...
Posted Sunday, March 22, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 20, 2020
My husband is now home for two weeks on "catastrophe pay", a two-week program that pays for him to be home because he's been ill. We don't know if he had COVID-19; his illness seemed like a normal cold, but he can ...
Posted Friday, March 20, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 19, 2020
I had just spoken to him on Monday. We'd had a conversation about the country's coronavirus response -- Stephen, predictably, argued both sides of the issue. On one hand, the country should do a lot more. On the other hand, it came with ...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 17, 2020
I've been to the grocery store several times looking for one item that I can't find -- I end up buying more than one, but the thing I'm looking for isn't lysol wipes or hand sanitizer or even toilet paper, which ...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 16, 2020
It's a few days into the strong request for social isolation; my husband has been off with a cough out of an abundance of caution -- I'd had the cough a few days earlier but both of us are on the road to ...
Posted Monday, March 16, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 14, 2020
Maine announced that it would be closing down the statehouse after Tuesday. Okay, okay, this was the emergency session and they would have been done by the end of May anyway, but still. They can't hold Skype meetings because of Maine's open ...
Posted Saturday, March 14, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 13, 2020
On a nasty, rainy day, the remaining colleges in the state announced that they would close after spring break and begin online coursework to the end of the year. That's unfortunate on many levels.
There is a vast difference between being in class ...
Posted Friday, March 13, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
March 12, 2020
Welcome to Maine. Now go home.
Maine has had its first positive presumptive coronavirus test, a person somewhere in Androscoggin County, who has not been hospitalized. The public health people are doing all the public health things, including contact tracing, but Maine had been ...
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2020
by Gina Hamilton
Last month, the Bath City Council agreed to spend $26,611 to trap and euthanize foxes, skunks, and raccoons, vectors for the rabies virus among wildlife. This Monday, they met to reconsider their vote after a group of residents opposed the program, but voted to uphold the ...
Posted Saturday, January 4, 2020
Court finds LePage is entitled to spend for lawyers
by Gina Hamilton
AUGUSTA -- The state's high court ruled in favor of Attorney General Janet Mills Tuesday related to the hiring of private attorneys in cases where Mills declines to represent the state.
Mills may choose not to represent the ...
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2015
AUGUSTA -- Gov. Paul LePage announced that his administration is suspending payment to the Alexander Group after it came to light that several pieces of the report, issued late last week, had been lifted from an economic nonprofit organization's report.
Two full pages of the Alexander Report were taken word ...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2014
by Andi Parkinson
(As originally posted on DailyKos, 2/28/14)
After almost a year of multiple interviews as part of an investigation by federal authorities into allegations that Governor Paul LePage and Maine Department of Labor officials pressured MDOL administrative hearing officers to be more pro-employer in its findings ...
Posted Monday, March 3, 2014
by Andi Parkinson
(11:45 AM UPDATE) The plan has now been released and as anticipated, it involves combining proposals from Senator Roger Katz and Speaker of the House Mark Eves:
A key Republican senator on Tuesday will release his proposal to expand the state’s Medicaid program to more ...
Posted Tuesday, February 25, 2014
by Andi Parkinson
We are giving Governor LePage a pass on the “Day Count” for Saturday and Sunday, as he was down in DC for the NGA winter meeting… well, until yesterday morning at least.
Feb. 22—Maine Governor Paul LePage and Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant at the Homeland Security ...
Posted Monday, February 24, 2014
