Leaders of the Legislature’s budget-writing committee are negotiating the scope of inflation relief checks and other pricey budget proposals, but have just days to cut a deal.
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Maine Voices: State funding is needed to ensure the safety of Maine children
To truly recognize April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, investing in abuse and neglect prevention alongside improvements to the intervention system is essential.
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Bill to ban sludge recycling and spreading divides farmers
While some farmers support a ban on sludge spreading to protect Maine farms from forever chemicals, a group that includes farmers and wastewater treatment operators want a ‘science based approach’ to monitoring PFAS levels to avoid increased fertilizer and sewer costs.
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Maine Voices: Stop saying small-business owners oppose Maine biometric privacy bill
It’s in the interest of Big Tech to defeat L.D. 1945, which would create guardrails on how companies can use our personal identifiers – our fingerprints, faces and voices.
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Maine Voices: Sports betting bill is a win for the tribes in Maine
L.D. 1352 will provide the Wabanaki with greater economic opportunity, generate more revenue for the state and offer Mainers a more competitive regulated sports wagering industry.
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Maine lawmakers approve resolution expressing support for Ukraine
All but 3 lawmakers signed onto the resolution expressing support for the Ukrainian people and condemning the Russian invasion.
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Bill to give Mainers right to healthy environment fails in House
The House voted 77-59 in support of the Pine Tree Amendment – well short of the two-thirds vote needed to send it to voters this fall. The proposal faces a vote in the Senate.
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A right to clean air and water? In broad initiatives, critics predict a sea of litigation
A move to enshrine in Maine’s Constitution a right to healthy environment is part of a trend of broadly worded amendments that includes the right to food.
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Maine Voices: Mills’ watered-down version of Good Samaritan expansion doesn’t cut it
The legislation as originally introduced would save lives; the bill as amended only hopes we will think it does.
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Maine Voices: Confronting the housing shortage, the economic challenge of our time
The Portland Regional Chamber and Maine Equal Justice are united in support of L.D. 2003, which can help ensure more Mainers have safe, affordable places to live.