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The following is Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ State of the State Address as prepared for delivery on February 10, 2022:…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Health and Human Services (HHS) convened on February 9 to hold public hearings on two…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Marine Resources (MAR) met on February 8 to discuss two bills intended to help the…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on February 7 to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products in the city.…
On February 7, Gov. Janet Mills unveiled an $8 million proposal intended to strengthen Maine’s child welfare system that will…
In late January, Gov. Janet Mills announced her administration has partnered with The Rockefeller Foundation to launch a pilot program…
The Maine Legislature will vote on a bill this session intended to protect the rights of student-athletes to profit from…
On February 2, Gov. Janet Mills unveiled draft legislation intended to reform oversight of Maine’s private utility companies. Included in…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is updating the processes it uses to track and respond to…
The Legislative Council met on January 27 and considered after-deadline bill requests to be introduced during the Maine Legislature’s ongoing…
Maine’s truancy rate tripled between the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years, increasing from just under 5% to just under 15%.…
Members of the Maine Legislature’s House of Representatives failed to override Gov. Janet Mills’ veto on Wednesday of a bill…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills will deliver the State of the State address on February 10. She will not release her…
Maine’s unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4.7% in December 2021, according to a release issued Tuesday by the Maine Department…
A preliminary estimate of drug-related deaths indicates 636 people died in Maine as a result of drug overdoses in 2021,…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Housing voted not to move LD 555, a bill that would have given…
On January 13, the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)…
On January 12, the Maine Department of Education (DOE) and the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced…
St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston has implemented a policy allowing employees who test positive for COVID-19 to come to work…
The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee held a public hearing Wednesday on LD 327, a Republican-sponsored bill intended…
The January 11 special election for House District 27, which includes parts of Scarborough and Gorham, ended in victory for…
On January 10, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced a joint temporary action…
On January 7, Gov. Janet Mills vetoed LD 151, a bill that would have allowed farmworkers to collectively bargain in…
On January 1, Maine’s minimum wage increased to $12.75 per hour. The increase is the result of a law passed…
The second session of the 130th Maine Legislature began on January 5, with both the Senate and House of Representatives…
The Portland City Council voted to repeal the city’s declaration of emergency and implement an indoor mask mandate at its…
On December 30, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Maine Department of Education (DOE) announced…
The Mills administration has announced no plans to provide at-home COVID-19 rapid tests for Maine residents, but at-home tests may…
On December 30 Gov. Janet Mills’ administration announced Maine’s Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has been granted intervenor status in…
The Commission to Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions recently submitted its final report…
The number of students enrolled in Maine public schools grew in the 2021-2022 school year from the 2020-2021 school year,…
Eight Maine hospitals will host federal ambulance teams, which will assist the state’s emergency medical services (EMS) workers with non-emergency…
The Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) and the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) on December 14 released the…
Federal appeals courts recently issued two decisions impacting federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements mandated by President Joe Biden earlier this year.…
According to a schedule released on December 17, the 130th Maine Legislature will hold only two in-person sessions when it…
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a theory about why Americans are paying higher prices these days at the…
For the month of November, Maine’s unemployment rate remained at 4.8%, a number that has largely been unchanged since February.…
On December 16, a Maine judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have stopped Question 1, the November ballot initiative…
When the 130th Maine Legislature reconvenes for its second session in January 2022, it will debate the state’s next supplemental…
In March 2021, Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law requiring the Legislative Council to study the best method…
Less than one week after announcing she was activating up to 75 members of the National Guard to serve in…
Gov. Janet Mills appeared at a December 8 press conference held by the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Carson v. Makin, a case involving religious freedom and what…
At the Appropriation and Financial Affairs (AFA) Committee meeting on December 7, Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Commissioner…
On December 1, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in partnership with the Maine Department of Education,…
The Commission to Create a Plan to Incorporate the Probate Court into the Judicial Branch held its final meeting on…
Maine’s rate of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes is currently the highest in the nation according to data provided by…
Following its November 23 meeting, the Maine Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC) upgraded the state’s General Fund revenue forecast. The RFC…
A federal district court judge found that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows violated free association rights of the Libertarian Party…
It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s fake on the internet these days. So when I stumbled on a…
The governors of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island withdrew their support from the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) last week, effectively…
Maine’s workforce conditions in October were little changed from September according to new data released by the Department of Labor…
On November 18, the Legislative Council met to consider appeals to legislative requests that were rejected at its October 25…
In a blow to Maine’s lobster fishermen, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reinstated a seasonal closure…
A question asking voters whether they want the legislature to direct a commission to study developing legislation that would create…
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 12 permanently blocked implementation of…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Department of Education (DOE) are currently accepting 30-second videos from…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) on November 10 released its final rule updating the immunization requirements…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills announced on November 10 it will soon begin distributing “disaster relief payments” passed as…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on November 6 granted an emergency stay of the Occupational Safety…
Maine’s requirement that healthcare workers at designated healthcare facilities be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 went into enforcement on October 29.…
Early returns on November 2 proved to be indicative of the results for Maine’s three ballot questions, which were all…
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal for injunctive relief on October 29 in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Maine’s…
Recent enrollment numbers released by the Maine Department of Education (DOE) show that the number of students who are being…
On October 25 the Legislative Council met to consider bill requests for the 130th Maine Legislature’s upcoming second session. The…
Gov. Janet Mills held a press conference on October 25 to announce funding for four programs intended to address Maine’s…
Maine’s unemployment rate remained largely unchanged between August and September. The unemployment rate ticked down slightly, from 4.9% in August…
It is now less than a month before voters will go to the polls and cast their votes on ballot…
For years, my son has leased land from Christian Camps in Jackman to tap trees for maple syrup, so I’m…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on October 18 to change the city fee structure for licenses of amusement devices.…
A commission directed by the Maine Legislature to create a plan to incorporate the state’s probate courts into the judicial…
On October 16, a U.S. District Court judge blocked the implementation of a seasonal ban on lobster fishing in Maine…
As of October 7, there have been just under 3,000 reported cases of COVID-19 in Maine schools within the last…
The Maine Legislature’s Republican leadership sent a letter to their Democratic counterparts on October 12 urging them to reconvene the…
As the date of enforcement for Gov. Janet Mills’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers approaches, hospitals and emergency medical…
The Legislative Council met on October 7 to discuss its legal response to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)…
At midnight on October 1, the position of state auditor will become vacant. Maine statute requires that the state auditor…
The Maine Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced the state’s minimum wage will increase by 60 cents on January 1,…
The Maine Legislature convened on September 29 and approved new maps for federal congressional districts, state House of Representatives and…
Arcadia National Bar, an arcade-themed bar in Portland, has been closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bar’s…
Hours ahead of its September 27 deadline, the Apportionment Commission met for the final time and approved new district maps…
Maine’s Apportionment Commission voted to approve new district maps for Maine’s House of Representatives and congressional districts during its September…
Maine’s Legislative Council voted to reinstate its COVID-19 Prevention Policy, which requires face masks to be worn in the State…
According to the Maine Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Workforce Research and Information, the number of nonfarm payroll jobs…
Occupational licensing has already been called out for hobbling opportunity, impeding mobility, protecting established practitioners from competition, and for raising…
The Apportionment Commission held a public hearing on September 20 to hear public input on some of the district maps…
In May, the Treasury Department released the Biden administration’s revenue proposals for fiscal year 2022. One aspect of this document…
On September 14, the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Marine Resources met and discussed the impact new rules recently released by…
Approximately 25 percent of jobs in the United States require some kind of occupational license. A condition on which many…
The Apportionment Commission, which is responsible for using the 2020 census data to redraw Maine’s political districts, hopes to hold…
There are a growing number of legal challenges to Gov. Janet Mills’ requirement that healthcare workers receive the COVID-19 vaccine.…
The number of state legislators who have signed a letter calling for President Biden to reverse a recent decision that…
According to Department of Health and Human Service (DHHS) Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew, Maine healthcare workers will not be able to…
Maine’s lobstermen and women are under attack by the Biden Administration after a recent set of rule changes restricting seasonal lobster fishing in 950 square miles of…
New federal regulations created to protect the endangered right whale will close off a nearly 1,000 square mile strip in…
The future of the Shawmut Dam remains in question. Following a draft ruling that announced the Maine Department of Environmental…
Jennifer Bridges knew what was coming when her director at Houston Methodist hospital called her up in June to inquire…
Maine’s Apportionment Commission, which is responsible for using the 2020 census data to reapportion the state’s legislative and federal congressional…
Despite some improvements to Maine’s economy, the leisure and hospitality industries remain among the slowest to recover from the pandemic.…