6 天之前 · Tuesday night in her “State of the Budget” address, Gov. Janet Mills made a point of saying that she’s opposing the effort to expand gun safety in Maine because, she says, enacting a red flag law “would directly undermine” her yellow flag law, which she claimed “is working.”

2025年1月15日 · About Ethan Strimling Ethan Strimling served for 10 years as the progressive mayor and state senator representing Portland. He also spent 19 years as the executive director of LearningWorks, a social service agency helping to break the generational cycle of poverty through education.

2025年1月8日 · About Ethan Strimling Ethan Strimling served for 10 years as the progressive mayor and state senator representing Portland. He also spent 19 years as the executive director of LearningWorks, a social service agency helping to break the generational cycle of poverty through education.

2024年10月30日 · We often don’t think of childcare as an electoral issue, but worries about childcare keep many Maine parents up at night. And Lewiston-area community organizer (and parent) Carrie Jadud says it’s just the kind of issue that we should be thinking of when we enter the voting booth. Jadud, who works for Maine People’s Alliance

2024年11月19日 · As election results continue to roll in, the process of interpreting those results has begun. This might seem premature, since it could be months before we have an accurate account of who actually voted in states. (Notoriously unreliable exit polls don’t count.) We do already know some things, though. We know that Republicans, led by

2025年1月14日 · Use of Maine’s yellow flag law has grown dramatically since the Lewiston mass shootings: law enforcement agencies completed more than 500 weapons restriction orders in the past 14 months, up from fewer than 100 in the three years prior to the tragedy. Since August, when an amendment to the yellow flag law went into effect,

2024年12月18日 · The incoming administration of President-Elect Trump and his allies in Congress have begun discussing plans to make deep cuts to Medicaid, one of the country’s largest health care programs, to offset their plans to cut taxes for wealthy Americans. Medicaid, known in Maine as MaineCare, is a joint state and federal …

2024年11月21日 · Update as of Thursday, Nov. 26: The overall revenue shortfall is now projected to be smaller, according to updated predictions released by the Legislature’s Revenue Forecasting Committee. The latest revenue shortfall for Maine's General Fund in the 2026-2027 biennium is approximately $187 million. Gov. Janet Mills’ chief of staff described the administration’s plan for dealing

2025年1月22日 · On January 10, Governor Janet Mills unveiled her budget plans for Maine through 2027. While the proposal balances the budget through some revenue increases, it largely relies on cuts to previous commitments, impacting vulnerable Mainers and low wage workers while letting the rich and big corporations — whose wealth largely surged during the pandemic — …

2024年1月26日 · The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted down a bill that would have compelled Maine not to cooperate with law enforcement from states that have banned gender-affirming care who are investigating people who have sought such treatment here. LD 1735, a bill sponsored by Democratic Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono, was a top priority