This November, Portland residents will vote on five citizens’ initiatives, four of which were sponsored by the Maine chapter of the…
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A joint ballot initiative effort between the Maine People’s Alliance and the Maine Women’s Lobby seeks to put the question…
Five citizen’s initiatives will appear on Portland’s ballot in November. Four of those initiatives, including one to create an $18…
Last week, the Maine Democratic Socialists of America rushed to file paperwork with the City of Portland that set in…
This past election day, Mainers faced two contentious statewide ballot questions, but many local initiatives faced the scrutiny of voters…
During its August 11 meeting, the Government Oversight Committee (GOC) voted unanimously to endorse a report on the citizen initiative…
Though the bill is dead, voters may still see the question LD 1708 would have posed on the ballot next November.
Governor Mills recently signed into law several bills that affect campaigns and elections in the state of Maine. L.D. 1363:…
In late March, the 130th Maine Legislature met in-person at the Augusta Civic Center for just the second time this…
The controversy over a hazardous-duty supplement to the minimum wage required by the recent referendum results in Portland is only…
School officials and building committees involved in Portland’s elementary school renovations are seeking clarification on the energy requirements of the…
Portland residents approved on November 3 an ordinance that increases the city’s minimum wage from $12 an hour to $15…
Portland voters approved Question A on their local ballots last week, an initiative opposed by the city’s mayor and most…
With more than 90% of the votes counted in Massachusetts, it appears that the initiative to implement Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV)…
A poll released Monday by UMass Amherst and WCVB is showing a tightening race among Massachusetts voters on Ranked-Choice Voting…
A recent Ipsos poll asked 1,001 Massachusetts adults about a number of issues, including their thoughts about ranked-choice voting (RCV).…
The Portland Press Herald’s editorial board isn’t buying what the Southern Maine Democratic Socialists of America are selling, and it’s…
The Maine Republican Party says it has collected enough signatures to challenge a new law expanding the use of ranked-choice…
This op-ed was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News on February 9, 2020. In 2016, Maine voters approved a ballot initiative that established…
Governor Janet Mills on Thursday, June 20 signed into law LD 534, sponsored by Rep. John Andrews, a bill that…
Governor Janet Mills yesterday signed LD 1209, “An Act To Require Legislative Hearings on Citizen-initiated Legislation” into Maine law. The…
Lawmakers are considering a flurry of ballot initiative reforms this session, from requiring signatures to be collected in both congressional…
Lawmakers on Maine’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee today will consider a bill that would amend the Maine Constitution to…
Lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing today on LD 294, sponsored by Rep.…
This week, lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on LD 252, sponsored by…
During the biennial budget battle in 2017 that led to Maine’s first government shutdown since 1991, lawmakers agreed to spend…
While Maine voters were out rejecting a plan for “Universal Home Care” on Election Day last week, the left-wing activist…
After a yearlong campaign of misinformation waged by the supporters of Question 1, Maine voters on Tuesday rejected Maine’s most…
More and more we are seeing direct democracy take hold in our elected representative republic. We do not see this…
Question 1 plays on voters’ emotions to pass policies that will hurt the very people it’s supposed to help. There…
There are so many bad policies rolled into Question 1 on November’s ballot that it’s hard to know where to…
It’s the political season and a lot of misinformation is flying around. I want to make sure you have the…
Question 1 on the ballot this November will read as follows: “Do you want to create the Universal Home Care Program to…
The Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is pushing a ballot initiative – Question 1 – that seeks to establish a 3.8…
Matt Gagnon did a superb job of “fisking” Edgar Allen Beem’s recent Forecaster column attacking MHPC’s report on Maine’s referendum…
In case you haven’t heard, Question 1 on the November ballot will ask Maine voters if they want to implement Universal…
I have a hunch. This late summer or fall, after Labor Day but before Election Day, progressives in Maine will…
The latest in a long list of misrepresentations from the Maine People’s Alliance regarding the upcoming Universal Home Care initiative…
Since the upcoming Universal Home Care (UHC) initiative sponsored by the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) achieved ballot status, the MPA,…
If you were pushing one of the largest tax hikes in history on Maine citizens, would you want them to know about…
An important bill offering ballot initiative reform will be reconsidered by the Senate on Wednesday in what will be Maine’s…
During last year’s general election cycle, the people of Maine saw a record number of citizens’ initiatives up for a…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, and try again… with all of the money and misinformation you can accumulate.…
Maine voters faced a number of far-reaching ballot initiatives last November, including Question 5, which enacted Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) in…
If I told you an interest group sent a legislator a draft bill and told them to submit it as-is,…
The biggest – and one of the most dangerous – myths in all of public policy is that money improves…
On Monday, June 13, 2016, the Maine Department of Labor formally submitted public comments to Secretary of State Matt Dunlap…