Good morning from Augusta. Gov. Janet Mills is now more than two months into her tenure and has made many breaks from former Gov. Paul LePage, but she and her administration have barely begun to fill hundreds of vacant seats on state boards and commissions.
Hundreds descended on the State House complex on Wednesday to testify for two competing immunization bills — one from Democrats that would remove exemptions that currently allow parents to opt out of vaccinating their children, and a counter bill from Republicans, which would protect that right for parents and doctors.
Good morning from Augusta. The three taxes making up the bulk of Maine’s revenue stream got slightly more regressive between 2012 and 2017, with state residents paying approximately $322 million in income, sales and property taxes during that five-year period.
A Connecticut prosecutor warned Gov. Janet Mills when she served as attorney general in 2016 that Maine’s chief medical examiner, serving as an outside witness, had given testimony that a judge in that state deemed not credible in a child manslaughter trial.
Republicans in the Maine House of Representatives dealt a blow Thursday to one of the first signature early pieces of legislation introduced by Democrats after the party made significant gains in the November 2018 election.
Good morning from Augusta, where later today Gov. Janet Mills will sign her first bill into law, renaming an Orono bridge for a Maine soldier killed in Afghanistan.
Lawmakers are being asked to revise the design of the Maine state flag by adopting a version first used in 1901.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will not support President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers parts of Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee.
Since her time on the campaign trail, Gov. Janet Mills has been vocal about her desire to increase teacher salaries in Maine.
Legislative hearings begin today on Gov. Janet Mills’ $8 billion two-year budget, a process that is set to take about a month before a key panel begins doing the long and difficult work of reshaping the document.
