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WEBBeacon Staff August 19, 2024. Members of Maine’s immigrant community led a rally Friday evening calling for improved access to permanent residency status. The group called on Maine’s members of Congress to support or co-sponsor updating the Registry Act for Immigration Reform. Updating the act would provide a pathway to legal status for ...
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WEBBeacon Staff September 6, 2024. On the podcast this week, Cate interviews Miles Rapoport, Executive Director of 100% Democracy, an initiative to advance voting as both a fundamental right and a civic responsibility. Ask a question or leave a comment for a future show at (207) 619-3182.
What’s on the November ballot in Maine — and what it means
WEBAug 1, 2023 · Maine’s November ballot will be busy, with eight measures for voters to consider, including a high-profile question about whether to replace the state’s embattled investor-owned utility companies, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a consumer-owned model. Last week, the Secretary of State’s Office released the order of referendum questions that Mainers will weigh in November,
Maine Republicans’ election bills criticized by opponents as voter ...
WEBMar 9, 2023 · Republicans in Maine this week pushed bills that would make it more difficult for some people to cast a ballot, which advocates are dubbing voter suppression efforts that could threaten the state’s status as a leader in electoral participation. GOP members of the state legislature spoke Tuesday about a slate of voting-related measures. One of
MIAC ‘shadow report’ raises questions about surveillance, …
WEBApr 1, 2022 · Ahead of the first public internal audit by the embattled police anti-terrorism agency, the Maine Information Analysis Center (MIAC), a group of grassroots advocates released a report on Friday highlighting the many unanswered questions about the scope of the shadowy agency’s surveillance activities, including its efforts to …
CMP parent company’s net profits grew 25% last year as Maine …
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power (CMP), reported Wednesday that it took in a net income of $881 million in 2022. That sum comes as CMP has requested a distribution-side rate increase — all while many Mainers have struggled to afford the cost of power in recent years. Avangrid increased its net income by 25% in 2022 over the $707 million it made in 2021, according to ...
Lawmakers expanded dental coverage but Mainers are still …
WEBDan Neumann August 9, 2022. Old Town resident Stacey Velez can’t find a dentist who accepts MaineCare dental coverage within an hour drive of her house. She has been rejected by over 20 providers in the last week. “I’ve been calling everybody who takes MaineCare and none of them are taking new clients,” she said.
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WEBEvan Popp August 5, 2023. A new initiative that seeks to end homelessness among Maine veterans by June of 2025 kicked off Friday with a panel discussion in Portland featuring Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, Sen. Angus King, Rep. Chellie Pingree and others. The project has an initial goal of housing 100 homeless veterans in the next ...
After historic passage, new laws battling PFAS enter …
WEBMay 18, 2022 · On May 9, Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed LD1911 into law, officially banning the spread of fertilizer infused with PFAS, toxic substances more commonly known as “forever chemicals,” on Maine’s farmland. The bill’s passage made Maine the first state in the U.S. to ban the use of industrial and municipal sewage sludge as fertilizer. The.
One Maine climate activist’s bold plan to take back the grid
WEBDec 26, 2022 · About Dan Neumann Dan studied journalism at Colorado State University before beginning his career as a community newspaper reporter in Denver. He reported on the Global North's interventions in Africa, including documentaries on climate change, international asylum policy and U.S. militarization on the continent before returning to his home state of Illinois to teach community journalism on ...