After decades of labor, educated and qualified Maine adjunct faculty still don’t earn a living wage – and now our services are being given away. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Maine state budget
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Democrats advance majority budget after talks with Republicans break down
Republicans had sought $200 million in income tax cuts for low- and middle-income Mainers, a goal one lawmaker said Democrats ‘flatly rejected.’
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine’s record-low governor pay is a shortsighted antiquity
Let’s be thrifty in ways that make sense. And appropriately remunerate work that matters.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Mills unveils steps to expand opioid treatment, protect children
The governor announced the initiatives during a speech in which she also urged lawmakers to support her proposed two-year state budget.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Politics
Time seems ripe for bipartisan action on income tax cuts in Maine
As the state enjoys a record surplus, lawmakers from both parties have submitted proposals that would reduce taxes for lower-income Mainers.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
State lawmakers prepare to weigh more than 2,000 bills, $10.3 billion budget proposal
With control of both the House and Senate, Democrats will set the agenda, but Republicans still hope to leave their mark.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Maine Republicans should have sales tax in their crosshairs
If their Democratic counterparts are serious about avoiding another partisan budget, Republicans might be able to insert some tax relief in place of new spending.
Posted inLocal & State, News
New funding for Maine’s legal defense system for the poor not enough to solve problem, commission says
Gov. Janet Mills’ plan to increase funding for the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services by $17 million pales in comparison to the agency’s $62 million request.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Why be cautious when we can be ambitious?
The latest budget covers what will be challenging and unusual years for the state of Maine. To look at its contents offers little indication of that reality.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Big issues await legislators in new session, starting with heating Mainers’ homes
When it begins work this week, the 131st Legislature will dig into its first big test: a bipartisan deal on energy relief.