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| Nov 4, 2026 | ProInfoNet Named Finalist for 2026 Maine Family Business Awards as Company Marks 30 Years | ProInfoNet Founder and CEO Jim Rogers and Vice President Jeff Rogers at the company’s 30th anniversary celebration in December 2025.
The Maine-based consulting firm was selected among 26 finalists from 505 nominations following its 30th ann... |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Midterm Election Day recap: Democrats flip Senate and House in stunning victory | This was CNBC’s live coverage of Election Day. Follow day two of 2026 midterm election results here.
Democrats’ epic night led to projected victories in the House and Senate, with a commanding victory in at least the House. The party also f... |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Portland Press Herald highlights CRP grant to Windham | 9/14/2026
The Portland Press Herald reported that the Town of Windham was awarded a Round 7 Community Action Grant from the Community Resilience Partnership (CRP) for its Residential Preparedness Program.
The Windham Residential Preparednes... |
| Sep 7, 2026 | Governor Mills Statement Recognizing Labor Day | September 7, 2026
Augusta, MAINE – Governor Janet Mills issued the following statement in honor of Labor Day 2026:
“Every morning, as the sun rises over Cadillac Mountain, Maine lobstermen are headed out to sea, farmers are tending their fi... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Maine media share Manufactured Housing Community Data Dashboard | 8/18/2026
Maine Public and the Portland Press Herald featured the Manufactured Housing Community Data Dashboard, a tool developed by the Maine Office of Community Affairs' Housing Opportunity Program.
The PPH reported that the public i... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | SWISS A330 Behind Delhi Slide Injuries Diverts Again: Bangor Smoke Emergency | By Ronald Holman
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| Jul 28, 2026 | Trump’s new 50% tariff on some Canadian goods could shake Maine businesses | New tariffs on some Canadian goods could roil Maine’s markets if they go into effect as planned next month, experts say. The new import taxes were ordered by President Donald Trump last week. The U.S. will charge a 50% tax on the value of a... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | A lawless administration won’t stop unless voters act (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A poet, a nurse, a construction worker and a food delivery driver. The four people killed in 2026 by federal immigration agents were regular folks trying to live their lives in peace before they we... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | PPH notes MOCA role in code enforcement | 7/24/2026
In an article about efforts to address the decline in code enforcement officers in Maine, the Portland Press Herald spoke to Samantha Horn, Director of the Maine Office of Community Affairs, about the agency's role in oversee... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Maine media report on housing data collected by HOP | 6/29/2026
The Maine Morningstar, Portland Press Herald, Maine Biz, and Spectrum News reported on the first ever statewide survey of housing production across Maine, with data collected by the Housing Opportunity Program at the Maine Office ... |
| Nov 7, 2025 | Farmers’ Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges | A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time. Related Articles
Deep in Trump country, coal miners with black lung say government ... |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Veterans, rural residents, older adults may lose food stamps due to Trump work requirements | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
States are rushing to inform some residents who rely on food stamps that they will soon be forced to meet work requirements or lose their food assistance. Related Articles
Trump administration narrows list of p... |
| May 2, 2025 | Beyond Real ID deadline panic, national identity document plan raises new privacy questions | To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec
Real ID identification requirements will go into effect May 7 nationwide for boarding flights, and not all state politicians or privacy experts are happy about it.
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| Feb 20, 2025 | Maine Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commissioner Urges USDA to Expedite Release of Critical Farm Funding | MAINE, February 19 - Back to current news. Maine Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commissioner Urges USDA to Expedite Release of Critical Farm Funding
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| Feb 7, 2025 | Automakers Sue To Kill Maine’s Hugely Popular ‘Right To Repair’ Law | A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on... |
| Jan 6, 2025 | Maine Still Hashing Out The Details Of Its Year Old ‘Right To Repair’ Law As Auto Lobbyists Loom | A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on... |
| Nov 11, 2024 | National Politics | Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish | Here’s a look at what Trump has said he will do in his second term and whether he can do it the moment he steps into the White House:Make most of his criminal cases go away, at least the federal ones
Trump has said that “within two seconds”... |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Celebrating Adult Education Family Literacy Week | Governor Mills has proclaimed September 16 – 20 as Adult Education and Family Literacy Week! Last year, Maine’s Adult Education programs helped over 12,900 students train for a career, earn their high school credentials, prepare for college... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Automakers Still Trying To Weaken Maine’s Popular ‘Right To Repair’ Law | Last November, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diag... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | 13 mistakes you're probably making with your slow cooker | Food 13 mistakes you're probably making with your slow cooker
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| Feb 8, 2024 | Meat Misinformation: How Big Beef is Funding Education Schemes to Influence Kids | 6 Mins Read Today’s kids are more vulnerable to climate change than any generation, and thus more inclined to have consumption behaviours that are kinder to the planet – the meat industry is trying to derail that by influencing the educatio... |
| Jan 31, 2024 | Automakers Look To Neuter Maine ‘Right To Repair’ Bill Under The Pretense Of Privacy Concerns | Last November, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diag... |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Massive Data Breach Hits Maine: Over One Million Residents' Information Compromised in Ransomware Attack | Inno Flores, Tech Times 09 November 2023, 09:11 pm
The Maine government has officially acknowledged that personal information of more than one million state residents was compromised in a data breach orchestrated by a ransomware gang linked... |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Commentary | Guest opinion: Marjorie Kelly: End wealth supremacy | By Marjorie Kelly
It’s been 15 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The investment firm’s startling downfall marked the beginning of a historic Wall Street crash that swiftly wiped out over $7 trillion in home equity and $2.8 trilli... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | A new public utility for Maine would speed clean energy, say advocates | Maine voters will decide in a referendum on November 7 whether to create a new nonprofit, the Pine Tree Power Company, that could purchase the transmission and distribution assets of one or both of the state’s two investor-owned utilities, ... |
| May 19, 2023 | Maine officials confirm first Powassan virus death of 2023 | Officials in Maine have confirmed the first fatal case of the Powassan virus disease in 2023.
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday they found the tick-borne illness in an adult resident from Sagadahoc County. R... |
| May 5, 2023 | New association formed to unite New England fishermen against offshore wind development | A new advocacy group for fishermen in the U.S. Northeast seeks to “fight against needless regulation and offshore wind development threatening the viability of the American fishing fleet,” organizers say.
The New England Fisherman Stewardsh... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | Moving Company That Threatened People With $1,000 A Day Fees For Negative Reviews To Pay $125,000 Settlement | If you’re a good company, you try to make customers happy and deal honestly with their complaints. If you’re Liberty Bell Moving and Storage, Inc., you threaten unhappy customers with lawsuits and steadily escalating fees for expressing the... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Right To Repair Is A Business Puzzle, Not A Legal Principle | Right to repair is a movement, legislative wave, and well-meaning idea that says people who buy durable products like mobile phones, tractors and dishwashers should be allowed to get them fixed by someone other than the original equipment m... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Governor Mills, Senate President Jackson & Speaker Talbot Ross Announce Legislation to Strengthen Maine’s Reproductive Health Care Laws | Inspired by the experience of Yarmouth resident Dana Peirce, legislation seeks to ensure that Maine people are able to access reproductive health care they need, when they need it
Governor Janet Mills, Senate President Troy Jackson, and Hou... |
| Nov 18, 2022 | How small-town Maine embraced a family that fled the Taliban | Redeem now
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine — Last November, at about midnight, Omid was lying in bed in his new home in Cape Elizabeth, Maine — exhausted, but unable to sleep. He texted Nasir Shir, his old friend from Afghanistan who lived down the s... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Democratic Gov. Janet Mills faces off against Republican Paul LePage in Maine's gubernatorial election | Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo; Insider
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| Oct 31, 2022 | Democratic Gov. Janet Mills faces off against Republican Paul LePage in Maine's gubernatorial election | Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo; Insider
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| Oct 21, 2022 | Rep. Jared Golden, a pro-gun Democrat, faces off against Republican Bruce Poliquin in Maine's 2nd Congressional District | Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo; Insider
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Rep. Jared Golden is running against Republican Bruce Poliquin in Maine's 2nd Congressional District for the second time.
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| Jul 27, 2022 | Solar powered electric lawn mowing | Small combustion engines, due to their much lower efficiencies, spew much greater volumes of pollution on a per unit scale. In fact, the division chief at the California Air Resources Board was quoted as saying, ‘We [California] expect that... |
| May 31, 2022 | In Brunswick-Topsham, the parade resumes and a veteran is honored - The Portland Press Herald | BRUNSWICK — It had been a whirlwind weekend for Richard “Archie” Pelley.
A decorated Vietnam veteran, Pelley had just returned from an Honor Flight Maine trip to visit the memorial monuments in Washington D.C. On Monday morning, the 91-year... |
| May 31, 2022 | Maine Compass: Gov. Mills has led efforts to truly support veterans | Memorial Day is a day of remembrance. As a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served in Vietnam, I often set aside time to remember the honorable people who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country and how much I miss them to this very day.
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| May 31, 2022 | At a Biddeford cemetery, children plant flags, learn about sacrifice ahead of Memorial Day. | BIDDEFORD — Raoul Goulet led Beckett Jacques over to a flat marker in St. Joseph’s Cemetery and brushed fresh grass clippings from the stone.
“I’m going to give you the honor,” Goulet, 73, said.
The fourth-grader pulled the rubber band off ... |
| May 9, 2022 | The Skills Emergency Is Happening Now | Co-founder, chairman and CEO of retrain.ai, the HR Tech using AI to help leaders reskill employees and prepare for the future of work. |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Maine mulling legal defense fund for lobster industry | A legislative committee in the U.S. state of Maine has reversed itself on the establishment of a bill to provide financial support to Maine’s lobster industry for court battles against federal rules intended to protect the endangered North ... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | Owner and crew of Maine herring seiner charged with misreporting landings | The owner and crew of a herring seine-vessel based in the U.S. state of Maine face federal charges alleging they falsified landing reports and sold millions of pounds of unreported Atlantic herring.
U.S. attorney Darcie N. McElwee in Portla... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | artnet : Experts Have Been Searching for This Marsden Hartley Painting for Decades. It Just Turned Up in a Bank Vault | Art World Experts Have Been Searching for This Marsden Hartley Painting for Decades. It Just Turned Up in a Bank Vault
An art historian tracked the painting down while working on an online catalogue of the modernist artist's work.
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| Nov 5, 2021 | Maine Voters’ Rejection Of Transmission Line Shows Again How Land-Use Conflicts Are Halting Renewable Expansion | A homemade sign posted on a telephone pole in protest of Central Maine Power's controversial ... [+] hydropower transmission corridor in Jackman, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Therapists in Maine are treating more people for climate anxiety: ‘What do you call a lobsterman when there are no more lobsters?’ | Maine lobster boat. Kathryn Donohew/Getty Images
The Bangor Daily News reported more therapists in Maine are seeing clients for climate anxiety.
Maine is highly reliant on its lobster industry, but the current lobster boom could end due to ... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | A discount store in Maine is closing after losing half its staff. Despite a ‘help wanted’ sign in the window, only 5 people applied for a job in 6 months, its owner said. | Workers say they’re leaving their jobs because of low pay, bad benefits, and a lack of flexible hours. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A discount store in Wiscasset, Maine, says it’s closing down because of the labor shortage.
The owner of Big Al’s... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Maine plans to intervene in lawsuit over new lobstering regulations | The Maine Department of Marine Resources plans to get involved with a lawsuit over new lobstering regulations intended to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale – regulations that will impact the state’s lucrative lobster fishery... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Match2Play App Now Available for Download on iOS in Maine | Match2Play The app was designed to match families in a way that best fits their lifestyle and budget, while still exceeding kids’ expectations of fun. - Sara Lopez
PORTLAND, Maine (PRWEB) September 08, 2021
Match2Play, the highly-anticipate... |
| May 11, 2021 | Mississippi Is Medicaid Expansion Campaign’s Next Red State Target | Mississippi is the latest Republican-leaning state to be targeted for Medicaid expansion by The ... [+] Fairness Project and other groups that have already put together a half dozen other successful ballot initiatives to broaden healthcare ... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | Crossed wires at a utility jolt Maine’s solar developers | Interconnecting millions of rooftop and small-scale power plants across the nation is proving to be more complex than dealing with the few thousand that existed prior to the rise of distributed wind and solar.
Events in Maine over the cours... |
| Feb 20, 2021 | McKee hopes to tap cities, towns to expand vaccinations | PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Dan McKee on Friday said he wants cities and towns to become more involved in the COVID-19 vaccination effort to help speed up distribution once more shots become available.
McKee said he hopes ... |
| Jan 27, 2021 | A big hurdle for older Americans trying to get vaccinated: Using the internet | The United States is racing to vaccinate millions of people for Covid-19, but online appointment registration systems are slowing down or preventing access to vaccinations for some of the people most vulnerable to the virus: older Americans... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | Thirteen Predictions For 2021 In Sustainability Private Equity (Part Two) | 2021 Benjaminsgetty |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Republicans sold out democracy to appease Trump’s loser tantrum | President Donald Trump giving a presidential ‘pardon’ to a turkey at the White House on November 26, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The dumbest of coups is almost over, no thanks to Republicans who stood idly by while President Donald ... |
| Oct 10, 2020 | The ultimate guide to legalization | Welcome to Insider Cannabis, our weekly newsletter where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boom.
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| Aug 28, 2020 | Fraudster Hijacks Biddeford Police Phone Numbers to Demand Bitcoin | Police officers in Biddeford, a city in York County, Maine, United States have detected an unknown person who keeps posing as one of the police officers demanding certain considerations from people and threatens to arrest them if they fail ... |
| Aug 21, 2020 | Judge rules lobstering can continue in spite of whale issues, as Maine lobstermen wait for trade aid | A federal judge has ruled American lobster fishermen can continue fishing in the wake of a decision in April that found they are in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
According to the Portland Press Herald, the judge decided not to ba... |
| Aug 5, 2020 | Medicaid Expansion Wins In Red State Missouri | A man works to complete his ballot in Missouri's primary election on August 4, 2020 at Gambrinus ... [+] Hall in St Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jul 22, 2020 | PPP loans helped buoy Maine’s lobster industry through the spring | Maine lobster businesses, both large and small, received emergency funding through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program to help them survive the economic crisis wrought by the coronavirus’ global spread this ... |
| Jun 30, 2020 | Medicaid Expansion Wins In Red State Oklahoma | In this photo, Medical student Ashton Gores speaks before supporters of Yes on 802 Oklahomans Decide ... [+] Healthcare deliver petitions to the Oklahoma Secretary of State's office, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma ... |
| May 19, 2020 | Bristol Seafood confirms COVID-19 cases, voluntarily pauses production in Maine | Portland, Maine, U.S.A.-based supplier Bristol Seafood has voluntarily paused production at its Portland Fish Pier processing facility after several team members tested positive for COVID-19.
Bristol Seafood CEO Peter Handy said on 18 May t... |
| Apr 14, 2020 | Stimulus funding process proving tricky to navigate for smaller seafood operators | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the U.S. seafood industry being upended as restaurant closures drive down the prices of seafood, leading a number of food organizations to request relief from the government.
The U.S. government... |
| Apr 5, 2020 | Among Those Losing Jobs, Red States Will See More Uninsured | A big increase in uninsured Americans is expected to hit harder in states that didn’t expand ... [+] Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act amid record applications for unemployment in an economy struggling with the Coronavirus strain COVID... |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Maine counters NMFS rejection of right whale plan | Maine officials said that the National Marine Fisheries Service’s rejection of its submitted right whale plan didn’t take enough of the state’s efforts into account.
The NMFS rejected the state's plan via letter earlier this week. Acco... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | NMFS rejects Maine's right whale plan | The National Marine Fisheries Service has informed the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) that its proposed North Atlantic right whale plan, designed to mitigate the impacts the lobster industry may have on the endangered species, d... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | Daily funding roundup - January 29th, 2020 | Crown Affair closed $1.7M; Defendify raised $2M; Masters of Pie closed $4.7M; 1Huddle raised $5M
Crown Affair: Crown Affair is a beauty brand that makes hair products. Crown Affair has raised $1.7 million in funding from Brand Foundry, Ampl... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet | Well, we got to January 2nd before the latest angry resignation published by a tech executive on Medium.
Today’s installment comes from Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in ... |
| Dec 20, 2019 | Gonzaga And Missouri State’s Friday Night Showdown Is A Mid-Major Dream | Jenn Wirth is Gonzaga's highest returning scorer from last season's meeting with Missouri State. (AP ... [+] Photo/Amanda Loman)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Maine lobster industry, officials push back against federal right whale protection plans | The U.S. state of Maine’s lobster industry, in addition to some state officials, are pushing back against proposals requiring fewer vertical lines in the industry in order to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
At a meeting o... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | Maine symposium to address how climate change will impact Gulf of Maine | Hundreds of scientists, conservationists, and government officials have gathered in Portland, Maine for the Gulf of Maine 2050 International Symposium in order to discuss how climate change will impact the region.
The Gulf of Maine is one o... |
| Oct 30, 2019 | A dilapidated, raccoon-infested wooden yacht that was once the 'floating White House' for 8 US presidents is being restored - here's a look inside the USS Sequoia | Advertisement
A rundown, raccoon-infested yacht that once served as a luxurious "floating White House" for eight US presidents between 1933 and 1977 was just barged from Virginia to Maine for a complete restoration.
The Presidenti... |
| Sep 7, 2019 | Jeffrey Epstein reportedly brought 'Eastern European' models with him to MIT, where employees planned how they could help them if they weren't 'there by choice' | Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend de Grisogono Sponsors The 2005 Wall Street Concert Series Benefiting Wall Street Rising, with a Performance by Rod Stewart at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City.
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| Aug 1, 2019 | BIPV in futuristic Las Vegas development: pvMB 08/01/19 | Sci-fi Las Vegas development to feature BIPV, IoT, AI, etc… – We don’t know quite how to describe the $7.5 billion thing that Bluetech Park Properties is building in Las Vegas, but as a start, “the net-zero buildings within their own insula... |
| Jul 16, 2019 | Extra menhaden quota awarded to Maine as lobster bait shortage concerns heat up | As the peak summer season begins to beat down on Maine’s lobster harvesters, state officials have stepped in to help ease some of the bait shortage burdens pressuring the sector as of late.
Last week, the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Mana... |
| May 30, 2019 | Searching For A Summer Home? Consider These Five Stunning Northeast Markets | |
| Apr 10, 2019 | Green Crab Cookbook aims to develop culinary culture for invasive species | A new cookbook released in the United States by the nonprofit Green Crab R&D is aiming to change the invasive European green crab from a liability to a boon.
European green crabs have been on the East Coast of the U.S. for over a centur... |
| Apr 9, 2019 | A Fitting Strategy To Save Lobstermen's Lives | Flotation device researchers Julie Sorensen, Rebecca Weil and Judy Graham (left to right) get... [+] feedback from lobstermen Jeremiah Felix, Bryan Butler and Tim Butler in Seal Cove, Maine. Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safe... |
| Feb 28, 2019 | Maine House takes first steps to undo gross metering | As the first legislative session following the replacement of former Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) with Janet Mills (D), the legislature is wasting no time in reversing the former administration’s idiosyncratic policies.
And one of the fir... |
| Feb 8, 2019 | Potential changes coming for Maine’s lobster industry | Multiple rule-changes could be coming for Maine’s lucrative lobster industry from both the state and federal governments in the coming year.
At the federal level, concerns over entanglements with the endangered North Atlantic right whale ha... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | More Evidence Of The Chinese Startup Slowdown | 38 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Don’t just listen to us, China’s startup sector is slowing.
The recent Crunchbase News report on the Chinese startup venture capital market detailed a slowdown in the second half of... |
| Jan 15, 2019 | pvMB 1/15/19: Solar tax suit in Maine, coalition calls on Congress to ditch fossil fuels and Appalachian Power is set to sell 100% renewable energy | Brunswick families ask state’s top court to overturn solar panel tax – A group of families in Brunswick, Maine are petitioning for the state’s Supreme Court to overturn a solar panel tax. The families and their attorneys argue that the town... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Legislators aim to restore reason to Maine’s rooftop solar policy | On January 2, Janet Mills (D) was inaugurated as the governor of Maine, replacing Paul LePage (R). And only a week later, bills had already been filed to reverse the outgoing governor’s policies.
Former Governor LePage frequently took to th... |
| Dec 13, 2018 | New Winners In Global Trade Wars | Corporations around the world are growing increasingly concerned about the immediate threats posed by a number of different global trade disruptions, ranging from the U.S. trade war with China to Brexit. While we still have a long way to go... |
| Oct 3, 2018 | Right whale protections could force change for lobster industry | In the second week of October, the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team will meet in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. to discuss what efforts are necessary to stop the deaths of right whales, one of the most endangered species on the pl... |
| Oct 1, 2018 | Potential slash of herring quota could lead lobstermen to sit out season | A proposal by the New England Fisheries Management Council on 25 September to make large changes to the herring fishery could lead to many Maine, U.S.A.-based lobstermen to sit out the next season.
The NEFMC’s Amendment 8, which was in the ... |
| Sep 25, 2018 | The new era in mobile | Joe Apprendi Contributor
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| Sep 21, 2018 | 160-foot-long Italian sandwich is quickly devoured in Maine | PORTLAND, Maine >> This was a sub worth diving into.
Eleven sandwich shops in Maine combined forces to create a 160-foot-long (49-meter-long) Italian sandwich.
The ginormous sandwich disappeared as quickly as it was created Thursday, ... |
| Sep 7, 2018 | Court Denies Politician's Attempt To Dismiss Lawsuit Over Banning Critics From His Facebook Page | Late last year, Maine governor Paul LePage was sued by the ACLU and two of the state’s residents. It wasn’t over his vocalized desire to shoot a local political cartoonist or his tone deaf handling of the Net Neutrality debate. This lawsuit... |
| Aug 30, 2018 | Maine lobster company proposes ‘trap-to-table’ seafood complex | Shucks Maine Lobster, based in Richmond, Maine, U.S.A., is proposing a new ‘trap-to-table’ seafood complex on the Portland, Maine waterfront.
The complex would consist of a processing plant, seafood restaurant, and marine education center i... |
| Aug 16, 2018 | Maine lobster industry feels impact of China’s tariffs | The ongoing trade war kicked off by U.S. President Donald Trump is beginning to hurt the lobster industry in Maine, U.S.A.
In response to a wide swath of tariffs on Chinese goods instituted by the U.S., China created a set of tariffs of its... |
| Jul 27, 2018 | Lay's rolling out lobster roll-flavored potato chips | The market price for Frito-Lay’s take on the New England lobster roll is sure to beat out that of any seaside shack this summer.
The popular PepsiCo-owned chip enterprise is rolling out eight limited-edition, regionally-inspired chip flavor... |
| Jul 23, 2018 | Cousins Maine Lobster’s Sabin Lomac hosting new reality TV series | Filming has wrapped on the first season of the Cooking Channel’s new TV show “Seaside Snacks and Shacks,” a reality program hosted by Cousins Maine Lobster’s co-founder Sabin Lomac, according to a report from the Portland Press Herald.
A Ma... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Shipyard Brewing Loses Its Lawsuit Over Ships and The Word 'Head' | Roughly a year ago, Shipyard Brewing Co. launched its bid for title holder of the single dumbest trademark lawsuit in the beer industry. The lawsuit against Logboat Brewing came as a result of two concerns. First, both breweries have the wo... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | Luke’s Lobster signs long-term lease in Maine, announces San Francisco opening | New York, U.S.A.-based Luke’s Lobster recently announced the company has entered into a long-term lease at 60 Portland Pier, in Portland, Maine, the former site of New Meadows Lobster.
The lease will allow Luke’s Lobster to begin buying and... |
| Jun 27, 2018 | A Somali-American Muslim Explains How the Travel Ban Ruling Will Affect Her | In recent weeks, Hamdia Ahmed has been thinking a lot about her experience as a refugee. Her family escaped the civil war in Somalia in 1997 and crossed the border to settle into a camp in Kenya. She was just a few weeks old at the time.
“M... |
| Jun 11, 2018 | Half of the Country Doesn't Have a Legal Definition of Consent | In May, Sweden became the 10th country in Europe to recognize that sex without consent is rape. The new legislation, which passed by a majority vote in Parliament and goes into effect in July, has been hailed as a huge victory by women’s ri... |
| May 18, 2018 | IKEA: Vegan Hot Dog Soon Available Throughout Europe | The Swedish retail chain IKEA has announced that a new vegan hot dog will be available in all stores in Europe by August this year. After a successful test phase at the Malmö site, during which the new product received 95% approval from cus... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | In wake of menhaden quota increase, some states rejoice as others push back | Changes to the menhaden quota allocation on the East Coast of the U.S.A. have been met by support from some states, while others are pushing back.
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) decided in November 2017 to increase ... |
| Apr 4, 2018 | Canadian firm plans investment in live lobster shipping hubs | Live Stor of Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada has announced a partnership with Leader in Green Assets (LIG Assets) that will create a new company devoted to live seafood storage and shipping.
Live Stor's American division plans to create fa... |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Nordic Aquafarms begins process for Maine-based salmon farm | Norway’s Nordic Aquafarms have started the long process of making its vision of building one of the world’s largest land-based salmon farms a reality.
The company’s proposal to build a USD 150 million (EUR 120 million) land-based aquacultur... |
