With little fanfare, Maine lawmakers passed major bills, including a new tax on electronic smoking devices, in the waning hours of the 2019 session.
Janet Mills
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: A year after Janus, many Maine public workers are still unaware of their rights
A new website aims to inform government employees about workplace freedom and organized labor’s efforts to undercut it.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, Maine Cannabis Report, News, Politics
With Mills’ signature, Maine finally has rules for recreational marijuana market
Maine’s adult-use marijuana industry will have the strictest residency rules in the nation.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
State gets to work on new economic development plan
Despite troubling demographics and other potential pitfalls, Maine aims to create a 10-year road map to a better economic future.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
‘People’s veto’ campaigns target new Maine abortion and vaccination laws
The groups behind the campaigns want voters to decide on laws that require insurers to cover abortion and that eliminate broad exemptions for childhood vaccinations.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: New Maine panel will take deeper look at deadly force
Studying police shootings could lead to better procedures that make the officers and the public safer.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: State should do more with migrant response
Since the Legislature adjourned without clarifying a gap in the law, the Mills administration must act.
