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PublishedJanuary 24, 2019
Mills backs bill to have state guarantee loans to unpaid federal employees
The emergency bill aims to ease financial pressures on 1,100 Mainers who are working during the government shutdown but haven't been paid.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2019
Maine House bans the use of live video by members during floor session debates or speeches
Republicans say shutting down the use of video by members is an affront to transparency.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2019
Maine House bans members from taking videos, photos during floor debate
Republicans say the ban is unnecessary, but the majority leader says the rule change is meant to prevent distractions.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2019
Mills says state must be ‘backstop’ against federal efforts to restrict abortion
She declares Tuesday that those who would reduce access to legal abortions 'are going to have to get through me first.'
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2019
‘New era’ looms for Maine and its tribes
The governor kindles hope, but tensions linger over the role she played as attorney general in regard to sovereignty issues.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2019
Advocates think bill to end most exemptions from childhood vaccinations has a shot
Maine has the nation's 7th-highest rate of non-medical opt-outs and high rates of infectious diseases like whooping cough.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2019
Mills names former House Speaker Hannah Pingree to head new office of innovation
Pingree says Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future will look for solutions in early-childhood education, the opioid crisis, broadband expansion and other areas.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2019
Area lawmakers proposing nearly 50 bills in legislative session
The bills are among more than 2,000 to be mulled by lawmakers in the next few months.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2019
This year’s legislative session may pit Mills against her own party on taxes
Maine's new governor has vowed not to raise taxes in her first 2-year budget proposal, but Democratic lawmakers' agenda calls for more state spending.
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2019
Debate brews over splitting Maine’s agriculture, conservation department
Some interest groups who represent farmers and conservationists want to break up the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, but Gov. Janet Mills has reservations.
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