The commission appoints 4 staff members, says it plans to issue a written report on its findings within 6 months and plans to ask the Legislature for authorization to issue subpoenas.
2023
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin meets with Zelensky in Kyiv
Lloyd Austin said Ukraine’s effort to defeat Russia’s invasion ‘matters to the rest of the world’ and that U.S. support would continue ‘for the long haul.’
Appeals court appears inclined to reimpose gag order against Trump in election interference case
Judges asked aggressive questions of both sides while weighing whether to restore an order from a trial judge that barred Trump from inflammatory comments against prosecutors, potential witnesses and court staff.
Maine’s summer tourist season was a mixed bag, with modest food and lodging gains
Visitor spending increased an estimated 1% to nearly $5.2 billion in the summer of 2023, the Maine Office of Tourism reports.
As Portland faces decision on encampments, other U.S. cities also struggle to address homelessness
The City Council is set to decide whether to pause encampment sweeps at the same time other cities tackle similar challenges in new ways, including with ‘micro apartments’ and safe camping areas.
Commentary: Home-schooling is now mainstream. True school choice must include support for it
I do not recall my exact reaction when my husband suggested that we consider home-schooling our children. Laughter seems plausible, particularly since we had no children yet when he casually worked its mention into our conversation. But my sense of home-schooling at that time was mostly that it was for families on the cultural fringe […]
Commentary: Trump could try to blame his lawyers for Jan. 6. But it just got a lot more difficult.
There’s a wide gulf between a casual assertion and a robust defense at trial.
Commentary: We must not repeat Islamophobia in our discourse on the Israel-Hamas war
The immediate focus must be saving lives. Racism that silences debate prevents that from happening.
Nov. 20, 1982: National economy hitting Augusta-area restaurants hard with closures, state bucks jobless rate, and an 86-year-old Readfield woman’s mittens are keeping student’s hands warm
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