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WEB5 days ago · Beacon Staff September 27, 2024. This week on the podcast, Ben and Cate discuss the new Pan Atlantic poll showing some interesting results across the state. They also dig into expenditure reports and online ad archives to give a sense of the hard-fought battle for control of Maine’s state legislature. Ask a question or leave a comment for a ...
Residents, lawmakers balk as Nestlé plans major sale of Maine …
WEBActivists with Community Water Justice and concerned residents from across the region gathered in Fryeburg on Saturday to protest Nestlé’s planned sale of its bottled water business to private equity firm One Rock Capital. At an estimated $4 billion, opponents say the sale represents the largest private transfer of water rights for bottlers in U.S.
Old Town residents, tribal leaders fight to have a say over state’s ...
WEBMay 25, 2020 · Closing loopholes in waste management law. Communities surrounding Juniper Ridge have fought to have a say in the size and composition of the landfill for more than two decades; a voice which they have repeatedly been denied. Many of those active in these efforts are residents of Old Town or tribal members of the Penobscot Nation.
Activists protest outside Maine mansion of conservative Supreme …
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Leo bought a nearly 8,000 square foot mansion in Northeast Harbor — on Mount Desert Island — during the fall of 2018. In 2019, activists protested outside the house when Sen. Susan Collins attended a private campaign fundraiser there. Collins, a Maine Republican, famously cast a pivotal vote in favor of confirming Kavanaugh, one of the ...
Maine is nation’s whitest, most rural state that doesn’t vote ...
WEBAug 27, 2019 · Maine tops a list of just seven states where demographics have not yet become a reliable predictor of whether voters will break towards Democrats or Republicans in national elections.. Maine, which has a higher share than average of white, rural voters without a college education, should vote much redder, suggests a study of …
Pro-Palestine activism on Bates campus investigated as …
WEBOn May 10, members of the student group “Bates Leftist Coalition” posted a series of pro-Palestine chalking drawings to their Instagram account. The drawings were found under the library arcade and on Bates campus buildings, including Commons, the Bates Student paper reported. “Stop ethnic cleansing,” one drawing read.
Rep. Sheats faces super PAC-backed challenger in Auburn
WEBOct 20, 2020 · State Rep. Bettyann Sheats is being out-spent by a margin of three-to-one by Republican challenger Laurel Libby, who has been buoyed by the anti-vaccination movement as well as an out-of-state Libertarian PAC. Sheats, the District 64 incumbent and a Democrat, is enrolled in the Maine Clean Elections program, which means she doesn’t directly solicit contributions
Connecting marginalized communities to arable land, Land Share …
WEBMay 18, 2021 · As the pandemic struck Maine early last year, access to food became even more important, with more than one in ten Maine families already food insecure prior to the COVID-19 crisis, including 28% of households of color.. That’s where the Maine Land Share Project came in. Started in March of 2020, the program connects those who have land to share with people who want to grow food.
On the inside: Letter from Penobscot County Jail inmates details …
WEBMar 3, 2021 · A letter sent last week by inmates in the Penobscot County Jail to a local advocacy group and provided to Beacon alleges that the jail is violating inmates’ rights through inhumane quarantine policies, poor COVID-19 precautions among staff, lack of timely medical care, inconsistency in access to basic supplies and threats of retaliation against inmates,
After historic passage, new laws battling PFAS enter …
WEBMay 18, 2022 · On May 9, Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed LD1911 into law, officially banning the spread of fertilizer infused with PFAS, toxic substances more commonly known as “forever chemicals,” on Maine’s farmland. The bill’s passage made Maine the first state in the U.S. to ban the use of industrial and municipal sewage sludge as fertilizer. The.