by Daniel Neumann | February 16, 2018
The Trust for Public Land, Knights Pond, Cumberland Center, Maine. With Tax Bases Eroding, Some Rural Communities Say Land Trust Conservation Comes At Their Expense In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Paul LePage continued his attack on the tax-exempt...
by Lance Tapley | September 18, 2015
Editor’s note: This is the final story in a three-part series investigating the Irving corporate presence in Maine and New Brunswick and its implications for the state’s future. If the giant, ever-growing Irving corporations were to have a larger presence in Maine,...
by Lance Tapley | September 16, 2015
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a three-part series investigating the Irving corporate presence in Maine and New Brunswick and its implications for the state’s future. SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK — If you cruise down the superhighway that crosses this...
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...
