The one-time, $90-per-customer credit, to be issued by the end of March, would help offset higher electricity rates.
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Gov. Mills unveils $8 million plan to improve child protection in Maine
The plan would strengthen the office of the Child Welfare Ombudsman and add child protection caseworkers to cover weekends, nights and holidays, among other initiatives.
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Mills administration cracking down on employer wage and hour violations
The state Department of Labor returned about $470,000 in unpaid wages to Maine workers in 2021, almost double the amount in 2019. Now it is naming violators online.
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Bipartisan group of lawmakers asks Mills to raise pensions for retired state workers
People receiving benefits under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System got the maximum 3% cost-of-living adjustment last summer, but it wasn’t enough to cover the 5.4% rate of inflation.
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Gov. Mills preparing utility accountability bill, with threat of consumer-owned option
The proposal could emerge as a competing alternative to the push for a statewide consumer-owned utility in Maine to replace CMP and Versant.
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Portland to host National Governors Association’s summer meeting
Gov. Janet Mills had invited the group to Maine during the winter meeting held in Washington, D.C., last week.
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Gov. Mills launches $10 million loan program for affordable single-family home construction
The Affordable Homeownership Program is expected to support construction of at least 150 new, single-family, affordable homes across Maine.
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Maine Legislature fails to muster enough support to allow farmworkers to unionize
Lawmakers don’t override Gov. Mills’ veto of a bill to allow workers at farms with 5 or more employees to negotiate wages and working conditions.
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Gov. Mills swears in attorney William Harwood as public advocate
Harwood replaces former Public Advocate Barry Hobbins, who retired in June.
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Gov. Mills calls White House, gets more COVID-19 treatments for Maine despite undercount of cases
Maine has been getting a smaller allocation of a monoclonal antibody treatment because of a large backlog of positive tests that have yet to be screened and added to the daily total of confirmed new cases.