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Maine’s yellow flag law in three charts
3 days ago · Use of Maine’s yellow flag law has grown dramatically since the Lewiston mass shootings: law enforcement agencies completed more than 500 weapons restriction orders in the past 14 months, up from fewer than 100 in the three years prior to the tragedy.
Yarmouth approves plan to remove two Royal River dams
3 days ago · The Yarmouth town council voted unanimously this month to remove two town-owned dams on the Royal River and consider fish passage improvements at a stretch of rapids in between them, a historic vote more than two decades in the making.
Maine real estate mostly unaffected by commission changes
4 days ago · A shift in the way commission fees are calculated has had little impact in Maine so far, say most agents. A for sale sign in Bar Harbor. Changes in the way commission is structured have had little impact in Maine, said agents. Photo by Kate Cough. New rules that went into effect in August changing ...
Battery ownership question remains unresolved
3 days ago · Nearly two years after the Legislature began debating whether storing energy — in batteries, or reservoirs, or fuel cells — should be considered generation or distribution and whether utility companies should be allowed to have an ownership stake in it, the question remains unresolved.. In a report released last March, the Public Utilities Commission, which the Legislature tasked with ...
Denmark updates water extraction ordinance
4 days ago · In the last week of one of Maine’s driest falls on record, a meager turnout of just 19 Denmark residents unanimously voted to expand the town’s authority over bottled water behemoth Poland Spring and large-scale water extraction from local aquifers.. The amendment approved at a Dec. 14 special town meeting gives Denmark powers to reduce or halt private water extraction when aquifer levels ...
Maine Monitor joins MINC as strategic partner
2 days ago · The Maine Monitor is the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 27-2623867), dedicated to delivering high-quality, nonpartisan investigative and explanatory journalism to inform Mainers about issues impacting our state and empower them to be engaged citizens.
Maine proposes major staffing changes for residential care facilities
Nov 24, 2024 · In the first major update to assisted living and residential care regulations in more than 15 years, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services has proposed significantly increasing staffing requirements, among other changes.
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The Maine Monitor is the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 27-2623867), dedicated to delivering high-quality, nonpartisan investigative and explanatory journalism to inform Mainers about issues impacting our state and empower them to be engaged citizens.
Dissecting the latest decisions on Maine dams
Nov 24, 2024 · Dover-Foxcroft select board chair Tom Lizotte sees that vote as a byproduct of the mistrust between the town and many of its residents, who were suspicious of the removal proposals and their connection to environmental groups, as well as the dam’s prominence in town.