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Maine lawmakers are plodding toward a mid-April adjournment with a slew of contentious issues to resolve, including gun safety and a new spending plan. Meanwhile, a divided Congress continues its obsession with the November election in its quest for historically unproductive governance.
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The bill is one of multiple measures that lawmakers are considering following a spate of high-profile deaths among children whose families were part of Maine's child welfare programs.
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Historically on the losing end of the gun debate, activists who want to tighten access to firearms are hoping they can convince lawmakers to pass expanded background checks, a waiting period on sales and streamline a process to confiscate guns from people deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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The bill has the backing of Wabanaki leaders as well as the Mills administration and Maine's attorney general. But it represents a dramatically scaled-back version of the tribal sovereignty measure that was originally proposed.
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First-time homebuyers would be eligible to buy a home without having to pay a down payment or monthly mortgage insurance premiums.
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In a highly unusual move, 15 attorneys general from across the country denounced the proposal in Maine as "constitutionally deficient" and accused proponents seeking to infringe on their states' policy-making.
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The appropriations bills include millions for housing, infrastructure, storm resiliency and other projects.
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Gov. Janet Mills is calling for additional funding for the Maine State Police to beef up rural patrols, but only for counties with existing coverage agreements with the agency.
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The backers of a Maine ballot initiative to limit donations to super PACs say their proposal could set a national precedent.
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Commercial and industrial businesses located within 20 miles of an organics recycler and that generate two or more tons of food waste a week will be required to divert it from landfills.
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State lawmakers heard hours of testimony Thursday on the latest round of gun safety policy changes from Gov. Janet Mills and much of the Democratic caucus, which include a proposed three-day waiting period for certain firearm sales, an expansion of background checks for advertised private sales and changes to Maine's yellow flag law.
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Rep. Chellie Pingree has invited Good Shepherd Food Bank president Heather Paquette to join her in the House chamber Thursday night. Paquette said food insecurity in Maine is back to pre-pandemic levels.