Feds want to take Penobscots’ side in suit over river rights
Federal government asks court to allow it to join the Penobscot Indian Nation in lawsuit against Maine over fishing and hunting rights on ancestral river.
LePage, lawmakers try to get Maine a passing ethics grade
Numerous reform bills appear before state lawmakers who are trying to earn Maine a passing ethics grade.
Rural citizens lose battle to have say in wind tower rezoning
Senate Democrats sideline an effort to give residents of the state’s most rural areas a say in whether wind towers are built in their communities.
Lawmakers want to restore rights to residents in wind tower zones
Legislative committee sided with residents in their fight to have more say over the construction of industrial wind towers in their backyards.
Wind power’s grip on Augusta weakening as ‘God’s Country’ presses its case
Residents of townships and plantations ask lawmakers to pass a bill to give them back the right to influence how the land in their communities was used.
Criticism of tax breaks growing in legislature
Growing list of legislators have called for a review of programs that leading economists have critiqued for not delivering on promises to create jobs.
University system cuts while reserve fund grows to $177 million
“The reserves are there for a rainy day. When things aren’t going so well, instead of laying people off, you use the reserves … so you don’t hurt the mission of the university."