In her State of the Budget Address on Tuesday, Governor Janet Mills declared that Maine’s fiscal health is strong and touted her Administration’s budget proposal as tackling many of Maine’s most pressing issues, from the workforce shortage to the housing crunch. The...
Maine would become the 12th state to approve a paid family and medical leave benefit for workers statewide if a proposal passes the state House and Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills. State Democratic lawmakers have stepped up lobbying efforts on the...
Governor Janet Mills announced that she has nominated a veteran of the Maine state court system, Superior Court Justice Wayne R. Douglas, to serve as an Associate Justice on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Justice Douglas has served on the Maine Superior Court and...
Governor Janet Mills announced Tuesday that she will deliver the State of the Budget Address to a Joint Convention of the Legislature in the House Chamber on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. The Governor was invited to deliver her Address by the Legislature’s...
Janet Mills announced Tuesday that she has nominated Meg Garratt-Reed, Director of the Office of the Health Insurance Marketplace at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, as Executive Director of the new Office of Affordable Health Care. The Office of...
Governor Janet Mills announced Monday, that the first round of $450 winter energy relief payments are being mailed to eligible Maine taxpayers today. The $450 Winter Relief Payments are part of Governor Mills’ Emergency Energy Relief Plan to help keep Maine people...
Under the Maine Department of Transportation’s (MaineDOT) three-year work plan for 2021-2023, released Jan. 25, nearly $1.4 billion is set aside for highway and bridge capital projects. The plan — which includes all capital projects and programs, maintenance and...
Beginning this week, members of the 131st Legislature started their review of more than 2,100 bills submitted for the upcoming session that range from designating a state rock to passing constitutional amendments that would guarantee the right to an abortion,...
The state housing authority has issued RFPs to provide overnight warming shelters this winter, and other long-term solutions for next winter and beyond. MaineHousing is preparing to spend $21 million to provide overnight warming shelters this winter and other...
Governor Janet Mills, Senate President Troy Jackson, and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross announced legislation to strengthen Maine’s reproductive health care laws. The legislation is inspired by the story of Yarmouth resident Dana Peirce. In 2019, Peirce was...
Sean P. Murphy, Boston Globe – A group of former customers of a Worcester home heating fuel company have won a major legal victory after a judge ruled their lawsuit against the company can go forward as a class action. A handful of former customers first filed...
Governor Janet Mills announced today that she has appointed Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, former Speaker of the Maine of House of Representatives, as Senior Advisor for Community Development and Strategic Initiatives in the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the...