Maine has ranked 51st on another list, but this time placing last is a badge of honor. Maine has the least expensive car insurance rates in the country, placing it 51st on Insure.com’s list of the most expensive states, and Washington, D.C., for car insurance. Maine’s average annual premium was $934, according to the survey. […]
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Public input sought on privacy protection bill
AUGUSTA (AP) — A privacy protection bill to restrict “geo-tracking” will be getting public input during a Maine legislative hearing. The Judiciary Committee on Wednesday holds a hearing on a bill that would require police to get a court-approved warrant to obtain location information of a cell phone or other electronic device. The bill sponsored […]
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Maine environmental groups seek to shut turbines to protect Atlantic salmon
PORTLAND (AP) — Two environmental organizations have asked a federal court to shut down turbines at four hydroelectric dams on the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers this spring to protect the Atlantic salmon run. Friends of Merrymeeting Bay and Environment Maine said in their motion for a preliminary injunction last week in U.S. District Court in […]
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Environmentalists ask judge to shut down turbines for salmon
LEWISTON — Two Maine environmental groups are asking a federal judge to temporarily shut down hydroelectric turbines at four dams on the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers. Ed Friedman, chairman of Friends of Merrymeeting Bay, said Tuesday his organization and Environment Maine filed a motion last week in federal court asking for a preliminary injunction against […]
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Maine Department of Marine Resources to tinker with proposed lobster marketing fees
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee on Monday tabled discussion on a bill that would raise $3 million in lobster industry licensing fees so that state regulators could have time to tinker with the proposed fee schedule. The bill, LD 486, would increase surcharges on each kind of license — harvester, dealer or processor — that […]
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At Popham, ‘there is no beach at high water’ as erosion worsens
PHIPPSBURG — Bright orange excavators clawed up boulder upon boulder Monday afternoon and placed them atop one another, shoring up a stone stabilization wall designed to hold off the pounding surf that, again this winter, has whittled away Popham Beach. Many summer cottages at the edge of Popham Beach State Park have lost their “lawn,” […]
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Fireworks legislation can’t get off ground
AUGUSTA — A slate of bills that would place new restrictions on the sale and use of fireworks failed to launch Monday. Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee tabled four bills that do everything from restrict the hours and dates fireworks could be used in Maine to set up fireworks-free zones […]
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Litchfield rejects offer of free ballot machine
LITCHFIELD (AP) — Three Maine towns will continue hand-counting ballots on election night after turning down a state offer of free machines to tabulate the results. Litchfield, Greenville and Winterport ultimately rejected the offer after being given one last chance to get in on the deal by Friday. The Secretary of State’s office last fall […]
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Nobel Peace winner to deliver Maine law school lecture
PORTLAND (AP) — A Nobel Peace Prize winner will deliver the University of Maine School of Law’s second annual Justice for Women Lecture. The school says Leymah Gbowee of Liberia will deliver her speech on Wednesday. Gbowee is an activist who led a peace movement that helped bring an end to the Liberian civil war […]
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Maine gas prices fall slowly
AUGUSTA (AP) — Gas prices in Maine continue to trickle down. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reported Monday that the average retail price of a gallon of gas has fallen by more than a penny in the past week to an average of $3.77. Nationally, prices have fallen by nearly two cents to an average of $3.65. […]