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PublishedFebruary 18, 2024
Special funds let Maine lawmakers raise and spend with few limits
While restrictions remain for campaign contributions to a legislative candidate, businesses and individuals can donate unlimited amounts to political action committees run by candidates after they're elected. And some of their expenditures might surprise you.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2022
Jeff Timberlake backs off from proposal to ease way for police to take people into temporary custody
Lawmakers appear to agree that more mental health training and personnel would help in responding to crises like the one that preceded a double murder in Turner.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2022
Varney daughters detail a harrowing scene on night of their parents’ murder
Officers held one of them for hours in a room next door while a suspect chanted, vomited and asked police 'disturbing questions'
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2022
Hours before being fatally stabbed, Troy Varney warned police ‘when he kills somebody tonight, it’s on you’
New details emerge in the Turner double homicide, spurring consideration of a measure in Augusta that might help prevent harm in the future.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2021
Leader of Maine Senate Republicans Jeff Timberlake seeks a third term in the state Senate
GOP leader from Turner is running in new 17th District.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
As deadline nears, panel provides no details for redrawing Maine’s voting districts
The special legislative commission had little for the public to weigh in on Friday when it held its first public hearing on the redistricting.
Jeff Timberlake
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