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WEBBeacon Staff September 27, 2024. This week on the podcast, Ben and Cate discuss the new Pan Atlantic poll showing some interesting results across the state. They also dig into expenditure reports and online ad archives to give a sense of the hard-fought battle for control of Maine’s state legislature. Ask a question or leave a comment for a ...
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 Rising with Quinn Gormley: It’s about ‘building each other …
WEBApr 8, 2018 · We are honored to feature Quinn Gormley in this week’s edition of Maine Rising. Quinn is the executive director of the Maine Transgender Network, the largest statewide transgender support organization in the U.S.. Read about Quinn’s work with this unique organization, which is dedicated to empowerment, community building, and justice in …
DSA launches Green New Deal, minimum wage, rent control …
WEBIn 2015, a similar referendum to raise Portland’s minimum wage to $15 and increase the tipped wage to 75 percent of the total wage by 2019 was defeated, winning 42 percent of the vote. Opponents, including the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce, spent more than $120,000 to oppose the initiative while supporters spent just $5,000 on their ...
Amid efforts to boost worker pay, Maine Republicans introduce 7 …
WEBJan 19, 2023 · Republicans in the Maine Legislature have put forward at least seven bills targeted at curbing increases to the minimum wage or lowering the base wage for some workers, even as Mainers struggle with the increased cost of basic goods. At the same time, progressives lawmakers have introduced a series of bills to raise workers’ pay,
Caregivers testify on dangerous staffing conditions at Maine ...
WEBBeacon Staff March 22, 2016. Staff of Riverview Psychiatric Hospital and Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Hospital testified yesterday in front of the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee in support of LD 1645, a bill that would increase wages to improve conditions at State Mental Health facilities. “This is a critical first step in ...
Maine doctors, parents launch No on One campaign to support ...
WEBCara DeRose February 4, 2020. Dozens of Maine doctors and parents packed into the Welcome Center at the State House Tuesday morning to officially launch the “No on Question 1” campaign, Maine Families for Vaccines. The campaign was formed to oppose a people’s veto effort —which will appear as Question 1 on the Maine ballot during the ...
Maine is nation’s whitest, most rural state that doesn’t vote ...
WEBAug 27, 2019 · Maine tops a list of just seven states where demographics have not yet become a reliable predictor of whether voters will break towards Democrats or Republicans in national elections.. Maine, which has a higher share than average of white, rural voters without a college education, should vote much redder, suggests a study of …
Income of wealthiest in Maine nearly doubled from 2019
WEBDec 2, 2021 · The wealth of the 30 highest income earners in Maine nearly doubled from tax year 2019 to tax year 2020, a recent report from the Maine Revenue Services Office of Tax Policy shows.. The report, which helped inform a December 2021 revenue forecast that projected a large surplus for Maine over fiscal years 2022 and 2023, found that “In tax year 2020, the income tax liability of the top 30 ...
Black, immigrant leaders call on Mills to ‘declare racism a public ...
WEBJun 25, 2020 · Maine has the worst racial disparity in COVID-19 cases in the country. In an online press conference on Thursday, a coalition of elected and community leaders from the state’s indigenous Black, African immigrant, Latinx and tribal communities came together to call on Governor Janet Mills to take immediate steps to address the crisis by prioritizing