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WEBBeacon Staff September 6, 2024. On the podcast this week, Cate interviews Miles Rapoport, Executive Director of 100% Democracy, an initiative to advance voting as both a fundamental right and a civic responsibility. Ask a question or leave a comment for a future show at (207) 619-3182.
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WEBBeacon Staff August 19, 2024. Members of Maine’s immigrant community led a rally Friday evening calling for improved access to permanent residency status. The group called on Maine’s members of Congress to support or co-sponsor updating the Registry Act for Immigration Reform. Updating the act would provide a pathway to legal status for ...
What’s on the November ballot in Maine — and what it means
WEBAug 1, 2023 · Maine’s November ballot will be busy, with eight measures for voters to consider, including a high-profile question about whether to replace the state’s embattled investor-owned utility companies, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a consumer-owned model. Last week, the Secretary of State’s Office released the order of referendum questions that Mainers will weigh in November,
One Maine climate activist’s bold plan to take back the grid
WEBDec 26, 2022 · About Dan Neumann Dan studied journalism at Colorado State University before beginning his career as a community newspaper reporter in Denver. He reported on the Global North's interventions in Africa, including documentaries on climate change, international asylum policy and U.S. militarization on the continent before returning to his home state of Illinois to teach community journalism on ...
Maine’s housing affordability crisis needs a public option, says ...
WEBJan 23, 2023 · One major potential solution to the state’s runaway cost of housing never seems to get discussed by Maine lawmakers: Public housing. For decades, the idea of building new publicly-owned, permanently affordable housing has been off the table, even as housing prices ballooned before the Great Recession of …
Podcast: The ongoing abandonment of older Mainers
WEBJul 5, 2024 · It’s not good. Ask a question or leave a comment for a future show at (207) 619-3182. Subscribe to the podcast feed using any podcasting app or subscribe on Apple Podcasts. Beacon is a website and podcast created by the Maine People’s Alliance to highlight the experiences of everyday Mainers, share …
Maine’s shield goes up – stopping out-of-state attacks on …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · This week on the podcast, Esther Pew is joined by an impressive array of Maine LGBTQ and reproductive rights experts to discuss the implementation of the state's new shield law, protecting health care providers and patients from investigation and prosecution by authorities in other states. The panel includes Mary Bonauto with GLBTQ Legal Advocates &
Ballot Questions 1, 2 and 3 are all about CMP’s monopoly power
WEBNov 6, 2023 · At its core, Question 1 came about in a response to Question 3, which asks Maine voters to replace CMP and Versant with a statewide consumer-owned utility, Pine Tree Power. Question 1 asks if voters “want to bar some quasi-governmental entities and all consumer-owned electric utilities from taking on more than $1 billion in debt unless they ...
Jewish-led protest demands Pingree join call for Gaza ceasefire
WEBNov 3, 2023 · Over 100 protesters, led by Maine DSA, IfNotNow and Jewish Action Maine, gathered outside Rep. Chellie Pingree’s Portland office on Friday evening, demanding the First District congresswoman join a House resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and pledge no further military funding for Israel. As of Thursday, Israeli airstrikes and a …
Opinion: Mills’ ideas for gun safety leave us yearning for more
WEBFeb 8, 2024 · Opinion: Mills’ ideas for gun safety leave us yearning for more. Ethan Strimling February 8, 2024. Gov. Janet Mills gave the best speech of her tenure last week. The part of her State of the State address describing the impact of gun violence on Mainers was emotional, smart and deeply persuasive. The picture she painted of the mass shootings ...