Maine’s step forward in public defense comes as the state is already struggling to find attorneys to represent roughly 580 defendants, almost a quarter of whom are in jail.
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Committee endorses amended changes to cannabis industry regulations
The amended bill, sponsored by Sen. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, eliminates some of the more controversial elements in the original measure.
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Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
The committee unanimously approved a bill declaring electric vehicle rules to be the responsibility of lawmakers and not the Board of Environmental Protection, an appointed citizen board that rejected EV rules the previous day.
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Winthrop nursing home to close within 60 days
Families of residents at Heritage Rehabilitation and Living Center in Winthrop say they learned of the pending closure earlier this week.
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Cumberland woman kept quiet about her talent as a kid. Now, she’s singing on ‘American Idol’
Julia Gagnon, a senior at the University of Southern Maine, wanted to be on the internationally televised talent show as a way of sharing something with her birth mother in Guatemala. She’ll make her first appearance Sunday.
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State approves fifth amendment to Franklin County’s unorganized territory TIF program
The TIF was approved in 2008 pertaining to the Kibby Wind Power Project in Kibby and Skinner townships in northern Franklin County. Helix Maine Wind Development bought the 132-megawatt facility in 2017.
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Leader of Maine’s youth prison steps down
Long Creek Youth Development Center Superintendent Lynne Allen resigned for undisclosed personal reasons, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
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Augusta moving ahead with plan to raise Front Street parking lot to cut down on the number of times it floods
Some $4 million in federal spending to fund the Front Street resiliency project, aiming to protect the downtown area from destructive flood waters.
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More Mainers are working, but unemployment rate remains at 3.4%
The health care and social assistance sector saw the biggest increases in new workers amid a labor shortage that has caused a crisis in access to health care.
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Waterville to launch program to help maintain, replenish neighborhood street trees
A task force is expected to inventory existing trees on streets in city neighborhoods and work to maintain and replenish those that have been lost, including elm trees, which were ravaged in the 1950s and 1960s by Dutch elm disease.