Janet Mills and Paul LePage, the main contenders, balance their talking points and rally their bases in a final push toward Election Day.
Caitlin Andrews
Caitlin Andrews covers state government, elections and general assignment stories for The Maine Monitor. She comes to the Monitor from the Bangor Daily News, where she covered politics, the State House and healthcare for three years. Prior to the BDN, she covered city government and police accountability at the Concord Monitor and the city of Rochester for Foster’s Daily Democrat in New Hampshire. Caitlin is a 2014 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where she studied journalism with a minor in anthropology.
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