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WEBBeacon Staff August 19, 2024. Members of Maine’s immigrant community led a rally Friday evening calling for improved access to permanent residency status. The group called on Maine’s members of Congress to support or co-sponsor updating the Registry Act for Immigration Reform. Updating the act would provide a pathway to legal status for ...
Black, immigrant leaders call on Mills to ‘declare racism a public ...
WEBJun 25, 2020 · Maine has the worst racial disparity in COVID-19 cases in the country. In an online press conference on Thursday, a coalition of elected and community leaders from the state’s indigenous Black, African immigrant, Latinx and tribal communities came together to call on Governor Janet Mills to take immediate steps to address the crisis by prioritizing
Maine’s Green New Deal aims to ‘link economic justice with …
WEBApr 16, 2019 · On the heels of new federal legislation that seeks to address the climate-change imperative, on Tuesday state lawmakers officially launched their effort to pass a Maine-focused Green New Deal. The effort has the backing of the state’s most prominent environmental and labor organizations. Freshman state Rep. Chloe Maxmin (D-Nobleboro), the sponsor of LD 1282, “An
Lawmakers expanded dental coverage but Mainers are still …
WEBDan Neumann August 9, 2022. Old Town resident Stacey Velez can’t find a dentist who accepts MaineCare dental coverage within an hour drive of her house. She has been rejected by over 20 providers in the last week. “I’ve been calling everybody who takes MaineCare and none of them are taking new clients,” she said.
Maine lawmakers pass heating relief bill that includes $450 checks
WEBJan 4, 2023 · The Maine State Legislature passed LD 3, a $474 million proposal put forward by Gov. Janet Mills in December that would use Maine’s budget surplus and other funds on direct checks for heating assistance as well as funding for housing programs. Specifically, the plan would send checks of $450 to a projected 880,000 Mainers.
Efforts to address racism in Maine schools turn to private town ...
WEBJan 27, 2021 · Millett has introduced legislation that if passed would bring town academies schools into parity with Maine’s K-12 public schools. “It falls on school districts to make sure that they are abiding by our prohibition on bullying and harassment,” she said. “Minimally, we have to at least put the 60/40 schools under the same statutory ...
Struggling Mainers call CMP’s winter disconnection notices a ‘fear ...
WEBJan 27, 2021 · Struggling Mainers call CMP’s winter disconnection notices a ‘fear tactic’. Evan Popp January 27, 2021. When Amy Bregy and her husband received a disconnection notice from Central Maine Power in November, her husband paid $900 out of the $1,000 that CMP said they owed, taking at face value the …
Decades-old Bangor activist hub contemplates new direction amid ...
WEBDan Neumann October 8, 2018. A Bangor activist network with more than 30 years of experience in grassroots organizing against war, inequality, poverty and environmental degradation is at a turning point due to changing membership demographics and declining funding, say the leaders of Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine.
CMP parent company’s net profits grew 25% last year as Maine …
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power (CMP), reported Wednesday that it took in a net income of $881 million in 2022. That sum comes as CMP has requested a distribution-side rate increase — all while many Mainers have struggled to afford the cost of power in recent years. Avangrid increased its net income by 25% in 2022 over the $707 million it made in 2021, according to ...
What’s on the November ballot in Maine — and what it means
WEBAug 1, 2023 · Maine’s November ballot will be busy, with eight measures for voters to consider, including a high-profile question about whether to replace the state’s embattled investor-owned utility companies, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a consumer-owned model. Last week, the Secretary of State’s Office released the order of referendum questions that Mainers will weigh in November,