A 14-year-old boy, his mother and a woman who lost her son to Type 1 diabetes and the high cost of insulin testified before a legislative panel last week at a public hearing in support of LD 673, “An Act to Create the Insulin Safety Net Program.”
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Municipalities push to retain remote meeting capabilities adopted for pandemic
Maine was one of only seven states before the COVID-19 pandemic that did not allow municipalities to hold remote meetings. But attitudes have shifted in the past year.
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Caitlyn Jenner says she will run for governor of California
Republican Caitlyn Jenner says she will run for governor of California
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House approves D.C. statehood as Senate fight looms
Republicans oppose the idea given that the new state would be overwhelmingly Democratic.
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Maine redistricting thrown into confusion by census delay, constitutional Catch-22
The state’s process insulates against gerrymandering, unless one party has supermajority control of the Legislature.
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Mills has a chance to fill key energy post as LePage appointee’s PUC term ends
The 6-year term of Bruce Williamson, an economist who was nominated to the Maine Public Utilities Commission by then-Gov. Paul LePage in 2015, ended in March.
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Gallows or guillotine? The chilling debate on TheDonald.win before the Capitol siege
The conversations that flowed freely and visibly on TheDonald.win for weeks underscore the openly violent intent of some of the thousands of Trump enthusiasts who thronged the Capitol on Jan. 6, as well as the intelligence failures of the authorities.
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Immigrants in Maine could regain access to health care benefits
Legislation sponsored by Assistant House Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross of Portland would roll back a 2011 change that prohibited non-citizens from receiving state Medicaid benefits.
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Committee votes to give DEP more power to clean up ‘forever chemicals’
Maine’s 2 U.S. senators, meanwhile, are asking the Biden administration to allow states to use federal stimulus money to address PFAS contamination.
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Bills requiring photo ID for Maine voters poised for defeat in Legislature
On a series of party-line votes, 3 bills that would require voters to show photo ID at the polls were rejected by majority Democrats on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee.