What we’re monitoring: 132nd Legislature • Local Government • State Government • Federal Government
With federal funding in doubt, Maine’s domestic violence resource centers freeze hiring
Resource centers around the state have frozen hiring and are operating understaffed in anticipation of funding shortfalls.
The Legislature enacted 116 bills on the special appropriations table. Here’s what that means.
In less than 48 hours, lawmakers had to decide how to appropriate up to $7 million in state funding for nearly 300 bills.
What the public lands fight means for Maine
“It’s hard for me to understand how gutting ‘America’s best idea’ isn’t America’s worst idea,” said Sen. Angus King.
Donald Trump’s administration quietly holds up $50M for Maine universities
New figures reveal that the Trump administration’s cuts to Maine’s public university system have reached further than previously disclosed.
Maine resilience projects face yet another funding setback
The Trump administration is scaling back a multi-billion dollar hazard mitigation grant program that states have long used to protect homes and businesses from floods and other disasters.
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