Good morning from Augusta. It’s an unusually busy end of the week at the State House. Here’s a quick rundown as the Legislature is starting to move some consequential bills to fruition.
Gov. Janet Mills announced on Thursday that she is the 22nd governor to join a national coalition that has agreed to abide by an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions that the U.S. withdrew from in 2017.
Four Republican and Democratic senators are introducing a resolution to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Maine’s response to climate change will be the issue of the day in Augusta as Gov. Janet Mills addresses energy leaders to flesh out plans to fight it and Republicans will rally against a Democratic proposal to enshrine a carbon tax.
Gov. Janet Mills committed on Wednesday to opening a psychiatric facility in Bangor that was the source of conflict between former Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic lawmakers during the final years of his tenure, but with a different scope than LePage’s plan.
Good morning from Augusta. There’s an air of inevitability surrounding legislative Democrats’ push to require paid sick leave, which could be a signature achievement from Maine progressives whose lawmaking hopes have mostly been bottled up for the last eight years.
The chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court urged lawmakers Tuesday to fund a comprehensive approach to combating the state’s opioid crisis, even though that funding wouldn’t necessarily flow to the judicial branch that she oversees.
Good morning from Augusta, where passage of the 129th Legislature’s first bill into law is imminent.
A bill that would have mandated cursive handwriting instruction for Maine public school students in third through fifth grades effectively died in committee Monday afternoon.
A bill that would establish a spring bear hunt in Maine failed to generate support in a legislative work session Monday, and the joint standing committee on inland fisheries and wildlife unanimously voted it “ought not to pass.”
