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.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2018
Maine taps Los Angeles consulting firm to help write recreational-marijuana rules
BOTEC, which advised Washington state on launching its adult-use market, submitted the lowest bid – $199,000 – of the five applicants.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2018
Whale entanglements exceeded average in 2017, report says
But right whales had fewer entanglements in the Northeast, according to a federal study.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2018
Two more added to Maine cannabis advisory commission
The 15-person panel still has two legislative seats to fill.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2018
Panel that will advise Maine lawmakers on marijuana laws is taking shape
Among those named so far to the 15-member Marijuana Advisory Commission are state legislators, a lawyer and lobbyists.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2018
Portland Planning Board OKs new marijuana zoning map
The proposal, which now goes before the City Council, would allow adult-use businesses in the same zones where the city permitted medical dispensaries and their grow operations in 2010.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2018
Tire shops under pressure as snow and holiday travel pump up demand
Some businesses are booking tire-mounting jobs for weeks from now as Maine drivers caught off guard by the early winter weather inundate them and ‘everybody’s freaking out.’
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PublishedNovember 9, 2018
Consultants jockey for contract to write rules for Maine’s marijuana market
Five companies have submitted bids to become Maine’s adviser as it launches an adult-use industry.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2018
Questions lead to delay in Maine’s cannabis consulting contract
The state received several questions on its call for a consultant to guide the rule-making around cannabis regulations, prompting it to extend the bidding deadline.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2018
Controversy erupts over dispensary owner’s ‘Negroes and homosexuals’ comment
Canuvo, the dispensary founded by Glenn Peterson, says he was trying to be sarcastic in his response to comments made during a Bridgton Planning Board workshop.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2018
Regulators moving to ban exotic bait that could threaten lobster fishery
The board agrees to develop a bait safety resolution based on Maine’s rules that all lobstering states would enact by 2020.
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