A dvocates are calling for action after a new report shows a pathogen risk was found at 78-percent of Maine beaches tested in ...

A Bates College graduate, a former Maine governor, a longtime U.S. senator and his party’s vice presidential candidate in 1968, Muskie capped his career as secretary of state for President Jimmy ...

A Democrat hadn’t represented Maine in the U.S. Senate since Muskie was a toddler, and he had never seen the state deliver its electoral votes to a presidential candidate from his party. In 1936, when ...

MAINE COMPASS: Muskie’s fall in ’72 showed there’s no crying in presidential politics. It's an unspoken rule in the presidential playbook: Be firm, show emotion, but don't cry.

A fake letter helped sink the 1972 candidacy of Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie — part of a dirty tricks effort waged by the Nixon re-election campaign ...

FBI records released to the Sun Journal on Friday show details of several investigations into claims the Democratic senator would be shot or bombed.

Muskie was a shy kid who came to Bates from Rumford, Maine. He blossomed through public speaking and debate, taking four semesters of public speaking, all taught by Brooks Quimby, Class of 1918, a ...

The late Edmund Muskie ’36 was born 100 years ago — March 28, 1914, to be exact. With help from the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, we celebrate this statesman’s 100th ...

Maine Compass: Fifty years later, Muskie’s Clean Water Act should inspire us all. ... Muskie was recognized by the Senate and many NGOs as the most important environmental leader at that time.