Scott Thistle

Portland Press Herald

Scott Thistle is the State House reporter for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He has covered politics and government in Maine since 2006. Prior to that he served as the State House reporter for the Duluth News Tribune in Duluth, Minnesota. A Maine native, Thistle has worked in journalism since 1990, when he got his start at a weekly newspaper in rural Oxford County, Maine. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and an active volunteer with the National Ski Patrol. He resides with his wife, Amy and his two sons Finn and Kai, in Auburn, Maine.

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Published
July 29, 2020

Republican-funded PAC spends $1 million on ads attacking Collins for not opposing Trump

The Lincoln Project, a national super PAC, was established by a group of Republicans who oppose President Trump and are working to unseat Republican senators they view as his supporters.
Published
July 27, 2020

Maine Republicans file last-minute court challenge to ranked-choice ruling

The party says Maine’s secretary of state improperly rejected thousands of signatures on a petition aimed at overturning a law applying ranked choice to presidential elections.
Published
July 27, 2020

Maine businesses say survival may hinge on more help

Business owners say the federal Paycheck Protection Program loans helped them weather what they hope was the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but they remain unsettled and worried about the future.
Published
July 24, 2020

Bill to force CMP takeover replaced with measure to explore options

A last-minute amendment turned a bill that could have created a consumer-owned electric utility in Maine into a proposal to study the matter and recommend legislation in 2021.
Published
July 22, 2020

Women for Trump draw crowd of 100 for campaign stop in Old Orchard Beach

Lara Trump leads a busload of women campaigning for her father-in-law in an event at a beachside restaurant.
Published
July 21, 2020

Maine bill would help veterans discharged because of sexual orientation

The measure calls for Maine’s Bureau of Veterans Services to provide state benefits to veterans who received other-than-honorable discharges before the federal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ law was repealed in 2011.
Published
July 21, 2020

Freeport brewery cancels Trump campaign event, saying it was misled

The owners of Stars and Stripes Brewery say they did not know an event scheduled at their business Wednesday was for the president’s reelection campaign.
Published
July 17, 2020

Superintendents welcome guidelines, see parents’ support as key to reopening

Three administrators in southern Maine say the state’s blueprint will inform how schools approach reopening in the fall.
Published
July 16, 2020

Republicans’ demands keep lawmakers sidelined, with hundreds of bills in limbo

The Democratic majority leaders want the Legislature to return for a special session, but Republicans insist that it be limited to curbing Gov. Janet Mills’ executive powers and responding to virus-related problems.
Published
July 15, 2020

Maine secretary of state rejects petition to repeal ranked-choice voting

The Maine Republican Party’s referendum initiative to overturn the use of ranked-choice in presidential contests submitted too few valid signatures to make the November ballot.