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The House and Senate will likely take up the additional initiatives on Friday as lawmakers gather for potentially one final time to vote on several vetoes from Gov. Janet Mills.
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Bowdoin College students overwhelmingly voted last week to support a referendum calling for the College to divest and condemn violence in Gaza committed by the Israeli government.
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Six months after the mass shootings, gun control advocates won approval for several initiatives that have evaded them in Maine's traditionally gun-friendly Legislature. But Gov. Janet Mills has yet to signal where she stands on at least two of the bills.
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The law shields providers of reproductive health and transgender care from laws in other states that restrict such care. The bill faced strong opposition from Republicans.
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The governor's original bill left wage enforcement to the state labor department. The legislature amended it to allow farmworkers to sue their employers.
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The proposal received approval from the Maine Senate in early April, but failed to get a vote in the House before lawmakers adjourned last week.
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Jared Golden voted in support of a proposal to provide aid to Israel. But Pingree voted against that bill.
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Maine will use its share of $5.5 billion in grants to facilitate single- and multi-family on-site solar programs and support cooperatively owned community solar.
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Brennan passed away April 6th at the age of 89. At his funeral at The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland Brennan was celebrated as a leader who was polite, sympathetic, firm and fair, a man who spent his life in public service.
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This session brought many wins, allowing developers to chip away at Maine's housing production goals and advocates to help those facing homelessness and tenants struggling to pay rent.
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What it mean to live according to a social contract, and does our society do that well?