The decision this week allows a referendum this November on use of the voting method in presidential elections.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
Posted inNews, Sports
Former CDC director says time is not right to play close-contact sports
Dr. Dora Anne Mills says adding such sports at the same time the state is reopening schools and entering flu season is like adding fuel to a fire – “we could get burned.”
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Man accused of fatal shooting in Lewiston arrested in Mississippi
Jaquile Coleman, 26, will be returned to Maine to face a murder charge in the death of 19-year-old Natasha Morgan.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine approves double-digit rate cuts for Affordable Care Act insurance
Insurance providers cited the revival of Maine’s reinsurance program as a reason they can decrease average rates for individual plans in 2021.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Lobster industry cheers trade deal that would lift EU tariffs
Maine lobster dealers predict an immediate boost in European sales, which will grow when air travel and restaurants bounce back from the pandemic.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
European Union drops tariffs on U.S. lobster
The decision will put the U.S. on equal footing with Canada in what had traditionally been a huge export market for American lobster.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Lobster and industrial cleanups on menu during EPA official’s visit
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler spent Thursday in Maine touring contaminated “brownfield” sites and lobster businesses.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Lobstermen catch break on diesel engine standards
U.S. lobster fishery is exempt from new standards until cleaner-running lobster boat engines are available on the commercial market.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Judge: Lobstering can proceed until new right whale protections are finalized in May
Environmental groups had asked the court to ban vertical buoys from a large right whale feeding ground south of Nantucket, but the federal judge declined to do so.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Maine Cannabis Report
Portland likely to miss out on Maine’s first adult-use marijuana sales
A federal judge put the city’s retail license scoring system on hold after concluding its residency preference was probably unconstitutional.