Chris Cousins

Reporter for the Bangor Daily News focusing on whatever's going on today (and hopefully tomorrow). Proud and sometimes obnoxious father.

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Daily Brief: Maine Clean Election backers try new tack to free $3.5 million trapped by legislative gridlock. https://t.co/GAQ0dPdsCF #mepolitics

[BDN Business @BDNbiz]

How China’s green wave is making recycling more expensive in Maine https://t.co/hcJaA0dzzL via @bangordailynews

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

@NickSam2BDN @bangordailynews I'd fish off it.

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Daily Brief: How this Legislature compares to other historic Maine political failures. https://t.co/UXdrdD1dw8 #mepolitics

[Michael Shepherd @mikeshepherdME]

This is what's happening on Clean Election funding after a whirlwind day. https://t.co/OZuWe6MEYU #mepolitics via @bangordailynews

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

@GlennThrush The lead in Bodhisattva has to also be a contender.

[. @darrenfishell]

MainePERS returns 10.3% for fiscal year (above benchmark) https://t.co/jGrNsIAKRK

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Annnnnnnnnnnd to be a dental floss tycoon? https://t.co/NPgcPKfxgI

[Vice President Mike Pence Archived @VP45]

Heading to Montana this afternoon. Looking forward to visiting with the great people in Big Sky Country and reinforcing @POTUS Trump’s 18 months of results and promises kept!

[Michael Shepherd @mikeshepherdME]

Daily Brief: The money race in Maine’s 2nd District is heating up, but Poliquin has a huge head start. https://t.co/86p4rxcfiz #mepolitics via @bangordailynews

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

How LePage — and his veto pen — remade Maine politics https://t.co/fHsKOR2gtp #mepolitics

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Wishing Craig a speedy recover: Winthrop lawmaker burned in brush fire accident https://t.co/qN6IJ4gyfv #mepolitics

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

DHHS chief rejects idea that Maine’s child protective system is ‘broken’ https://t.co/jq20nlBJqx #mepolitics

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Looks like 23 House members are absent again, but it looks like the $106M transportation bond is a go -- if voters approve in November. #mepolitics https://t.co/Jo2qXutMNz

[Maine House Chamber @ME_House]

10-1, LD 1815, AUTH GEN FND BND ISSUE TO IMPR MULTIMODAL FAC, HGHWYS & BRDGS, ENACTMENT - BOND ISSUE, Yea 128 Nay 0

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

@jasonlmann @PressHerald @KevinMillerPPH @WNYCStudios Well, he is @KevinMillerPPH after all.

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Maine Legislature has dealt with all outstanding vetoes from .@Governor_LePage. Today's score: 23 vetoes sustained, 20 overridden. Check out the details here: https://t.co/j9yNcCiZOq #mepolitics

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

Up-to-the-minute veto tracker: See how lawmakers deal with LePage’s latest bill rejection spree https://t.co/LSmtBfF4jt #mepolitics

[Michael Shepherd @mikeshepherdME]

The Legislature is under way in Augusta. Here's the @bangordailynews patented (not actually patented, but it should be) veto tracker. https://t.co/AXnh8ksKIl #mepolitics

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

This was the bill that funded startup costs for Medicaid expansion. Killed in the House because it didn't garner 2/3 support needed to override a veto. #mepolitics https://t.co/eWF4Yifwqp

[Maine House Chamber @ME_House]

2-6, LD 837, PRVD SUPPMNTL APPROPS FOR THE OPERATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT, RECONSIDERATION - VETO, Yea 85 Nay 58

[Chris Cousins @Storytiller]

LePage vetoes 6 new bills, including ban of ‘conversion therapy’ https://t.co/r9MTotG711 #mepolitics

[Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews]

What’s at stake in the Legislature’s fight over public campaign financing https://t.co/HRkmOkbRk8