The projected $800 million can be used ideally to simplify our tax system, or at least to bolster the rainy day fund and invest in infrastructure.
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Eliminating single-family zoning among ways to increase housing opportunity, state commission says
Recommendations from the Commission to Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions include allowing in-law apartments as a matter of right and removing municipal growth caps.
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Maine lawmaker who flouted pandemic rules resigns after wife’s COVID-19 death
State Rep. Chris Johansen, R-Monticello, contracted COVID-19 this summer along with his wife, Cindy, who later died from the virus.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Use Maine’s surplus to help those still hurting
The state still has more work to do to repair the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic aftershocks.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Mills should stress action, not words, in committing to tribal sovereignty
The Maine governor’s latest Indigenous Peoples’ Day message highlighted incremental fixes that don’t effect systemic change.
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Economic growth, federal funds drive increase in state revenues
Gov. Mills says she will propose using some of the added revenue to help Mainers struggling with increased costs of electricity, home heating fuels, gas at the pump, and other necessities.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, Politics
Maine DEP suspends construction license for $1 billion power line
The license will be reinstated if the New England Clean Energy Connect project’s developer wins its legal fights over state land or a pending statutory ban.
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Maine Voices: Passing environment amendment would be natural ‘right to food’ follow-up
Polluted waters and contaminated soils would make meaningless our right as Mainers to grow crops and raise livestock.
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The Maine Millennial: Tribes still fighting for their rights in Maine
A proposed state law would undo some of the damage that has been done to Native people by colonization.
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Buckfield’s former Town Manager’s experience with CMP last summer leads to proposed bill in Maine legislature
The bill would require utility companies to give a 60-day notice before it could disconnect service to public safety facilities such as fire, police and ambulance departments.