The LePage administration wants to stop providing General Assistance to some immigrants awaiting work permits. Opponents call the change illegal and racist.

Officials also plan to discuss findings on proposed expansion of the program when part of the study goes public, as the attorney general has demanded.

Janet Mills says the LePage administration is violating state law by withholding the study. The governor’s reported response: She can ‘sue me.’

Passage of a bill that would expand the health coverage faces Republican opposition.

Not allowing children to work is ‘causing damage to our economy,’ the governor says.

Purchases made at businesses that sell alcohol and tobacco were improper, he says. But many of those places offer other items and have ATMs, so the extent of misuse is unclear.