Recent Stories

• Launching a sustainability accelerator
  Maine can’t wait to finance clean energy and climate resilience.
• Domestic abuse linked to 43 percent of Maine homicides in 2018-19
  A panel calls for expanded community response and better cooperation between government, advocacy groups and schools to reduce the deaths.
• Maine’s legislature could become first to require divestment of public funds from fossil fuels
  The bill has sparked constitutional arguments and a debate over how more than $17 billion of state funds should be invested to best serve the public.
• Average taxpayers pick up the tab when wealthiest, corporations pay no tax
  A fair share of the burden should be more than the zero in taxes that many of the wealthiest corporations currently pay.
• Federal judge dismisses wiretapping claims at Maine jails
  Lawyers and clients were unable to show that Securus Technologies intentionally recorded their calls at county jails, a federal judge ruled.