The state’s business leaders fiercely opposed the restrictions they said would have limited their ability to target ads to potential customers.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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Maine House backs data privacy bill
The legislation aims to regulate the collection, use, processing, transfer, sale and deletion of non-publicly available personal data. Business groups say the bill would detach Maine’s businesses from the global online marketplace.
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Veggie or grain? Maine’s congressional delegation acts to defend, promote potatoes
All 4 members have joined bipartisan efforts to prevent the potato’s reclassification from vegetable to grain under federal dietary guidelines, and to encourage Japan to drop barriers to buying more U.S. potatoes.
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Last-minute budget cut to Maine dairy subsidy riles farmers
In a late-night budget session, lawmakers cut funding for the Dairy Stabilization Program from about $8.9 million to $4.5 million.
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After difficult quest for stable housing, Angolan family finds home in Lewiston
Last March, Anadia Miguel was 7 months pregnant and inconsolable in a temporary shelter for asylum seekers in Portland. A year later, much has changed.
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Maine dairy farms are dwindling. A task force is being set up to find out why.
Maine has lost one-third of its commercial dairy farms since 2020. Emergency legislation signed by the governor calls for a task force to identify ways to keep the heritage industry healthy for decades to come.
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Power restored to most Mainers affected by Friday outages
The outages were caused by high winds and downed tree branches, a Central Maine Power spokesperson said.
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Portland jetport pitches parking expansion plan for city, state review
The Portland International Jetport has reduced its proposal by 100 spaces, but that might not satisfy residents of a Stroudwater neighborhood concerned about the $8 million project.
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Hannaford, Market Basket, Shaw’s, Walmart: Check out the Press Herald’s comparison shopping
The cost of groceries has skyrocketed in recent years, but the price of food is only one factor attracting patrons to the big players in Maine’s shifting supermarket landscape.
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Founder of Madison wood fiber insulation company to be Golden’s guest at State of the Union Address
Congressman Jared Golden invited the president of TimberHP, Josh Henry, to join him at the U.S. Capitol Thursday night, saying he helped ensure one of Maine’s heritage industries will have a future.