The Maine Department of Marine has released a proposed amendment to their plan for the Kennebec River as it relates to Atlantic Salmon. Among other things, the plan calls for the elimination of two dams and the consideration of eliminating two others. The public has an opportunity to comment on this plan and I submitted […]

Longtime columnist George Smith, whose work filled this space every Wednesday for three decades, died Feb. 12. For the next several weeks, we will reprint some of George’s best columns. Here’s one from Oct. 19, 2011. Warblers arrive in the spring garbed in colorful clothing, but they head back south in the fall dressed in […]

This bill would require the Legislature to assess the potential racial impact, however unintended, of any act the legislature passes.

State law is filled with assurances that these schools will succeed and help Maine students.

The Legislature should examine to the costs of benefits of bringing passenger rail to Augusta and beyond.