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
October 6, 2017

Old Orchard Beach campground and mobile home park a potential casino site

A development study identifies 25 acres of neighboring parcels, but the campaign calls it a test-case location and some people living there are skeptical.
Published
October 4, 2017

Casino referendum battle intensifies with website attacking ‘Shady Shawn’

Opponents try to paint the potential developer of a York County gambling facility and some of its financial backers as unethical, and their targets fire back.
Published
October 3, 2017

Supporters hope Collins will skip run for governor, stay in Senate

She’ll decide next week whether to make a bid to succeed Paul LePage, but her backers don’t want Congress to lose a powerful moderate and a check on President Trump.
Published
October 2, 2017

Lucas St. Clair enters race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District seat

The son of conservationist Roxanne Quimby has become the face of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument and is the sixth Democrat to enter the district primary.
Published
October 2, 2017

LePage was to meet with Trump today in Washington

The president’s daily calendar included a brief meeting with LePage and 3 other governors, on an undisclosed topic.
Published
September 30, 2017

Bill to make sale of recreational marijuana legal in Maine faces uncertain fate

A Republican legislative leader says he’s uneasy with the bill because it’s an ‘all-or-nothing’ measure. If it doesn’t pass, the marijuana ballot question that voters approved will become law.
Published
September 29, 2017

LePage calls lawmakers back for special session in October

The governor says a food sovereignty law and funding for the Maine Office of Geographic Information Systems are critical issues, but doesn’t mention the recreational marijuana bill or ranked-choice voting.
Published
September 28, 2017

Republican Garrett Mason to enter Maine’s 2018 race for governor

The majority leader in the state Senate is the third Republican to join the fray.
Published
September 26, 2017

Pence expresses disappointment in Collins in Maine radio call-in

The vice president’s call to WGAN radio comes a day after the Republican senator said she would vote against the Graham-Cassidy bill, effectively killing the measure.
Published
September 25, 2017

Lawmakers make case that Maine’s initiative process is being gamed

As proof, members of the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee cite the dizzying array of out-of-state and overseas entities with ties to the casino question on the November ballot.