by John Christie | November 11, 2013
Editor’s note: Nearly 30 years ago, Harper’s Magazine created its Harper’s Index, ©, a one-page listing of “ironic statistics arranged for thoughtful effect.” The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting herein launches our annual Maine version of the index,...
by John Christie and Naomi Schalit | June 19, 2013
“I feel like a citizen who is seen to be of less value than my neighbors,” said Karen Bessey Pease, after Maine Senate Democrats Wednesday sidelined an effort to give her and other residents of the state’s most rural areas a say in whether wind towers are built in...
by John Christie and Naomi Schalit | June 6, 2013
A legislative committee Thursday sided with residents in some of the state’s western mountain communities in their fight to have more say over the construction of industrial wind towers in their backyards. If the full legislature approves the bill, it would be...
by John Christie and Naomi Schalit | May 21, 2013
They came from the townships and plantations of Concord, Lexington, Highland, Carrying Place and Pleasant Ridge. They set out for the statehouse in Augusta from the five sparsely populated backcountry communities set between the Kennebec and Carrabassett rivers, from...
by John Christie and Naomi Schalit | July 9, 2012
BANGOR — The University of Maine system trustees on Monday approved policy changes designed to give the chancellor greater authority over appointments, promotions and pay raises. The changes come after press reports about the use of loopholes in the hiring process to...
