Government & Politics

A bill cosponsored boy Maine's independent senator seeks to ensure that the IRS enforces the tax code more fairly and serves taxpayers better.

The forum, scheduled for Friday. May 8, will focus on issues affecting Maine’s business climate, workforce development and economic competitiveness.

Maine’s modular construction industry, considered essential to helping meet the state’s critical housing needs, hit a regulatory roadblock this month in the Legislature, with the failure of LD 2229.

The new measure, signed by the governor this week, bars medical debt collectors form placing a lien on a person's home or garnishing their wages.

Five years after the closure of a post office in May 2021, the 1,700-population town of West Paris has a new post office that opened over the weekend.

The lawsuit claims the repeal violates the Clean Air Act, ignores the scientific record and abandons safeguards that protect communities living near and downwind of coal plants. In Maine, mercury levels in fish, loons and eagles are among the highest in North America.

The Chamber says LD 1870 is “costly, redundant and unnecessary.” More than two dozen business associations have expressed their opposition to the bill.

The state’s Child Care Affordability Program provides a state subsidy that helps defray costs by paying providers directly and limiting out-of-pocket expenses based on income.

“The revisions … severely curtail program eligibility and make it more difficult for nonprofit partners to place rural families in homes," U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, and others said in a letter to the USDA.

In a two-page letter to the U.S. International Trade Commission, a dozen lawmakers are urging officials to examine trade conditions affecting the U.S. potato industry