Left undone amid a legislative standoff are dozens of spending measures that affect social services, education, the environment, transportation systems, county jails and more.
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Maine lawmakers inch forward in effort to fund jails, pay more to direct care workers
Other measures, including a rollback of the minimum wage and Medicaid expansion funding, remain unresolved.
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Jim Fossel: Maine lawmakers should fix election funding, then limit it
The typo that cut off Clean Elections money ought to be corrected quickly, before changing the policy.
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Maine legislative leaders returning Wednesday to negotiate on key bills
Republicans and Democrats on the budget-writing committee are running out of time to reach deals.
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Portland councilor, business owner vying for state Senate seat
Jill Duson and state Rep. Heather Sanborn will square off in the Democratic primary.
Posted inMaine Crime, Maine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: State’s failure to fund jails threatens an already barebones system
Lawmakers should treat the county facilities like they do other necessary infrastructure and provide adequate assistance.
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Maine lawmakers voice objections to CMP power line in letter to Massachusetts regulators
The co-chairmen of two legislative committees say they don’t think the 145-mile transmission line proposed by CMP would benefit Maine.
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Maine schools will get some state funding even though lawmakers failed to act
Because the Legislature adjourned without passing a major school funding bill, the state will consider it an emergency and issue subsidy checks based on conservative estimates, a spokesman says.
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Recreational marijuana is now legal in Maine – sort of. Now the state has to write the rules.
Legislators put the state on a path to legal production and sales – guided by rules more conservative than first proposed – and the first shops are likely to open in spring 2019.
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Maine Voices: We must demand that legislators fund care for those with substance use disorder
Public health interventions save lives, but more friends and family will die if we don’t pay for them now.