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Happy Tuesday!
The highs today will range from the low 50s up north to the mid-60s down south.
These mild temperatures may be welcome to anyone too anxious to turn up the heat. The latest state data show heating oil prices, on average, remained flat over the past week, coming in at $5.97 a gallon.
In eastern and Down East Maine, prices range from a low of $5.50 to a high of $6.30.
Of course, that average price, while flat week over week, is 80% higher than this time last year, when the going rate for a gallon of heating oil was $3.31. That means it will cost $731.50 more to fill a 275-gallon tank.
Over the next week, though, we’ll be treated to warmer temperatures. But that may be little more than a brief reprieve because winter is assuredly coming.
The ad war between Susan Collins and Troy Jackson is more negative than ever
With just two weeks until Election Day, Mainers are basically standing behind a tilting dump truck full of the muddiest mud that advertising money can buy. No one asked for this, and yet here we are.
Most of it concerns our U.S. Senate race.
Republicans super PACs are branding Troy Jackson a “crook and a creep,” or just “a creep,” claiming he has used his influence in Augusta to help his family. Democratic groups are painting five-term U.S. Sen. Susan Collins as a false moderate who mostly sides with President Donald Trump at the expense of her constituents.
The candidates themselves aren’t staying out of the fray, with each running their own unflattering spots about the other.
A Bangor Daily News analysis found that the intensity peaked Saturday when more than 9 of every 10 dollars spent on TV ads in Maine’s U.S. Senate race went to negative ads.
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Today, we’re sharing answers from the candidates for the U.S. House for Maine’s 1st Congressional District, Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat, and businessman Ron Russell, a Republican.
Opinion: Candidates for Maine’s 1st Congressional District answer your questions