Rep. Pingree co-sponsors the amendment, as Golden argues that a scientific tool used to assess the lobster industry’s risk to right whales has not been subject to 3rd-party review.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny Overton is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she has covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut, and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Maine’s biggest marijuana company threatens to sue state if it’s shut out of recreational market
Wellness Connection says proposed residency rules would exclude it from the state’s new adult-use market.
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Pot prices emerge as a top concern at hearing on recreational cannabis rules
About 100 people turn out for the first public airing of the state’s proposed rules, raising concerns that the taxes, prices and labeling requirements will hurt small businesses and their customers.
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Public has chance to weigh in on marijuana regulation
National experts have already suggested ways to improve rules, from allowing online purchases and retail delivery to banning hazardous extraction methods and most forms of advertising.
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Funtown icon gets a winter makeover
The Astrosphere scrambler at the Saco amusement park now sports a concrete dome – complete with air conditioning – to replace the old inflatable one.
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Hearing set on recreational pot rules
The May 23 hearing in Portland will be the first opportunity for the public to provide in-person testimony on the state’s draft of adult-use cannabis regulations.
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Maine releases draft rules for its recreational marijuana market. Read them here.
Proposed regulations, made public at the request of the Press Herald, cover everything from licensing, inventory tracking and enforcement to advertising, packaging and labeling.
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U.S. lobster dealers expanding into Canada to shore up their business
With an acquisition in Nova Scotia, Ready Seafood joins a growing group of dealers that want to secure access to hard shell lobster year round and hedge against unfavorable trade conditions.
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Maine on track to launch recreational marijuana market this year, says state’s pot czar
Residents can now grow cannabis for recreational use at home, but still have no way to legally buy or sell it.
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Portland man charged with murder in shooting death of Deering High grad
Mark Cardilli Jr. was arrested Friday in the killing of Isahak Muse in Portland’s Riverton neighborhood March 16. Muse’s family says it’s ‘only the first step in ensuring justice for him.’