Cardboard boxes, plastic jugs and things like them are filling the waste stream, and their disposal costs Maine taxpayers millions each year.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine Legislature must fund critical investment in housing
L.D. 1645, a proposed tax incentive, would benefit low-income families and seniors around the state.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Columnist Fossel off mark with tax cut comment
The Maine Legislature can’t run a deficit, so tax cuts come at the cost of vital services.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News, Times Record
Bill pending in Maine to make producers pay for disposal of packaging
Maine is drafting a first-in-the-nation law to shift the cost of disposing of packaging materials from consumers to private companies.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Lawmakers sideline proposed cellphone ban in parking lots
A bill that would have prohibited use of hand-held phones in parking lots now attempts only to clarify fines and other mistakes in the existing law.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
House upholds veto of bill to let candidates put their nicknames on ballot
Rep. ‘Billy Bob’ Faulkingham, the bill’s sponsor, says many voters in his district wouldn’t recognize his given name.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics, Times Record
Bill aims to avert large fines in Maine’s hands-free cellphone law
In addition to clarifying that the fine for a first offense is $50, not $170, the bill would make it illegal to use a handheld cellphone while driving through a parking lot.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Bath Iron Works is holding up its end of the deal
A former state senator argues that the company is more than meeting the hiring goals imposed when it received a tax break.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Mills’ gambling veto is paternalism at its worst
The governor of Maine presumes she knows more than the people of Maine about what would be good for them.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Maine lawmakers urged to tackle mental health crisis in the state’s jails
A bill before the Legislature aims to ease the strain on the corrections system, including county jails, which increasingly house people with mental health issues who face criminal charges.