What’s on the November ballot in Maine — and what it means
Aug 1, 2023 · Maine’s November ballot will be busy, with eight measures for voters to consider, including a high-profile question about whether to replace the state’s embattled investor-owned utility companies, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a consumer-owned model. Last week, the Secretary of State’s Office released the order of referendum questions that Mainers will weigh in …
Maine is nation’s whitest, most rural state that doesn’t vote ...
Aug 27, 2019 · Maine tops a list of just seven states where demographics have not yet become a reliable predictor of whether voters will break towards Democrats or Republicans in national elections.. Maine, which has a higher share than average of white, rural voters without a college education, should vote much redder, suggests a study of nationwide voting trends.
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Oct 7, 2024 · January brought a pair of rough storms to the northeastern U.S. They hit when the tides were high and pushed higher than normal by rising sea levels, setting numerous high-water records and prompting Maine Governor Janet Mills to request a federal disaster declaration.
Efforts to address racism in Maine schools turn to private town ...
Jan 27, 2021 · When Esther Kempthorne, a naturalized immigrant from Mexico and a Spanish teacher, submitted her resignation from Washington Academy in East Machias last July, she wrote to that administration that it was because discussions about racism were deemed too political at the private town academy. The decision to …
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Maine’s Green New Deal aims to ‘link economic justice with …
Apr 16, 2019 · On the heels of new federal legislation that seeks to address the climate-change imperative, on Tuesday state lawmakers officially launched their effort to pass a Maine-focused Green New Deal. The effort has the backing of the state’s most prominent environmental and labor organizations. Freshman state Rep. Chloe Maxmin (D …
On the inside: Letter from Penobscot County Jail inmates details …
Mar 3, 2021 · A letter sent last week by inmates in the Penobscot County Jail to a local advocacy group and provided to Beacon alleges that the jail is violating inmates’ rights through inhumane quarantine policies, poor COVID-19 precautions among staff, lack of timely medical care, inconsistency in access to basic supplies and threats of retaliation against inmates,
CMP parent company’s net profits grew 25% last year as Maine …
Feb 23, 2023 · Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power (CMP), reported Wednesday that it took in a net income of $881 million in 2022. That sum comes as CMP has requested a distribution-side rate increase — all while many Mainers have struggled to afford the cost of power in recent years. Avangrid increased its net income by 25% in 2022 over the $707 million it made in 2021, according to ...
CMP and Versant parent companies rake in profits after recent …
Aug 10, 2022 · The parent companies of Maine’s two largest investor-owned utilities, Central Maine Power and Versant Power, are reporting hundreds of millions of dollars in profits since they began raising rates last year. Many Mainers’ electric bills spiked at the beginning of this year after the Maine Public Utilities Commission announced there would be an 83% increase
Labor rights experts say state agencies unable to keep up with ...
With an estimated $40 million taken in 2019 from Maine workers by employers in the form of wage theft and limited state capacity to investigate such claims, advocates say there is a clear need for the legislature to approve a bill that would give workers greater reach in addressing violations by employers.. LD 1711, sponsored by Senate President Troy Jackson (D …