Good morning from Augusta. Gov. Janet Mills is facing her first not-so-partisan wedge issue after coming out in favor of Central Maine Power’s proposed $1 billion corridor that would deliver Quebec hydropower to Massachusetts through western Maine.
A government watchdog agency tasked last year with studying frontline child welfare caseworkers in Maine found most to be overworked and regularly unable to fully meet the needs of families they are supposed to serve.
Gov. Janet Mills’ two days of inaugural festivities at the Augusta Civic Center aren’t yet paid for and her inaugural committee is likely going to go past a deadline set out in Maine law to raise more money to cover higher-than-expected costs.
Before getting to work on Gov. Janet Mills’ controversial $8 billion, two-year budget proposal, the Legislature has to clear a small spending proposal from the governor that nevertheless contains a few important policy shifts.
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit cities and towns from passing most restrictions on short-term rentals that have exploded on websites like Airbnb.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she supports a lawsuit aimed at stopping President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to build a wall on the southern border. She also said she’d vote for a disapproval resolution in Congress.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is running for president again next year, but things have changed drastically for the 2016 runner-up for the Democratic nomination and winner of the Maine caucuses since four years ago.
Good morning from Augusta. The new Maine Legislature still hasn’t sent any bills to Gov. Janet Mills, but that may change this week as lawmakers also begin their work in earnest to whittle down more than $1.5 billion in borrowing proposals.
Maine will join roughly a dozen states in filing a lawsuit against the White House over President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration late last week.
In her third executive order, Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday ended a 2018 moratorium restricting the issuance of permits for wind turbine projects across the state.
