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Published
April 11, 2017

Speakers at hearing support limiting drug company gifts to Maine doctors

A bill seeking an annual cap of $50 seeks to end any influences on the prescribing of opioids, painkillers that are often a precursor to heroin use.
Published
April 9, 2017

Our View: Maine lawmakers should study tipped wage, not cut it

It would be premature to change the state's new minimum-wage law before seeing if it works.
Published
April 6, 2017

Maine Democrats’ budget priorities expose huge gap between parties

Democratic leaders tout a humane 'opportunities agenda,' but Republicans dismiss it as just more tax-and-spend policies.
Published
April 6, 2017

Maine’s attorney general says bill to protect climate change views is unneccessary

A conservative lawmaker who authored the bill says it's meant to stop Attorney General Janet Mills from suppressing free speech.
Published
April 6, 2017

Maine lawmakers backing off long resistance to federal Real ID requirements

The Senate overwhelmingly approves moving to more secure driver's licenses as the impact of noncompliance starts to cause problems and threatens to get worse.

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Published
April 5, 2017

Dozens turn out to testify on two Maine ‘death-with-dignity’ bills

The bills would allow patients with less than six months to live to ask their doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs that patients would administer themselves.
Published
April 4, 2017

Lawmakers split on how to regulate retail marijuana sales in Maine

The divided committee vote reflects differences in opinion about which state agency – or agencies – should license marijuana businesses.
Published
April 4, 2017

Ethics commission identifies lawmakers who may have missed income disclosure deadline

The commission's director says no further investigation is planned, and lawmakers now are more aware of the requirement.
Published
April 4, 2017

House sustains LePage veto of veterans ID bill

The legislation would have provided $15,000 to help pay for passport cards for low-income veterans who now can't access a New Hampshire VA health clinic.
Published
April 4, 2017

Our View: Thibodeau deserves praise for speaking out

When political parties go overboard with partisanship, leaders need to get involved.