by Susan Cover | December 20, 2020
Amid a pandemic and an economic downturn, lawmakers will return to Augusta in January with a list of priorities that span topics such as healthcare, climate change and the power of the executive branch. And while Democrats and Republicans have different goals, they...
by Marina Schauffler | December 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: The Maine Climate Council submitted its Climate Action Plan to the Legislature on Dec. 1. Topics related to the plan have been covered in a series of Sea Change columns this fall. The Maine Climate Council’s 15-month process preparing Maine...
by Marina Schauffler | November 29, 2020
Editor’s Note: The Maine Climate Council is submitting its Climate Action Plan to the Legislature on Dec. 1. Topics related to the plan have been covered in a series of Sea Change columns this fall. Alongside the challenges of a raging pandemic, failing health care...
by Susan Cover, Darren Fishell and Meg Robbins | October 25, 2020
Every day when she gets home from work, Sharon Houle is greeted by five or six pieces of oversized cardstock trying to convince her how to vote. She constantly changes the radio in her car to avoid political advertisements. She records most of her television shows so...
by Jordan Bailey | August 23, 2020
More than a decade after Foster Bates was convicted of the 1994 rape and murder of Tammy Dickson of South Portland, two new witnesses came forward with information that could exonerate him. One said another man confessed on the night of the murder, and the other that...
