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PublishedDecember 20, 2019
Rep. Moonen: Inclusivity has been a key value in Maine policymaking in 2019
Bills passed this year have addressed issues such as equal pay, automatic voter registration, state-tribal ties, food insecurity and ending conversion therapy.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2019
Bruce Poliquin fighting to stop spread of ranked-choice voting
The two-term former Republican lawmaker from Maine's 2nd District lost his seat in nation's first federal ranked race.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2019
More celebs join Michelle Obama’s voter outreach drive
Obama is a co-chair, along with Lin-Manuel Miranda, Faith Hill, Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, and basketball star Chris Paul, of the nonprofit When We Vote.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2019
Maine Suffrage Centennial: Lewiston journalist was early, bold advocate for the vote among Franco women
Starting in 1910, Camille Lessard Bissonnette took a singular stand when she reached out to immigrant women in Maine and women in French Canada.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2019
Greg Kesich: We are more than just consumers
Citizens who are working together have more power than individuals who are deciding what they want to buy.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2019
Maulian Dana: Many still silenced after women got the vote
Native Americans in Maine did not achieve full suffrage rights as citizens for many years after the right to vote was extended to women in 1920.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2019
Battle brews to dump Jim Crow rules aimed at keeping African-Americans from office
A lawsuit in Mississippi targets the state's 1890 constitution, which still has provisions expressly crafted to stop blacks from getting elected.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2019
Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns
With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2019
Presidential primaries, automatic voter registration among election-law changes
But lawmakers defeated several attempts to change the citizen initiative process and the ranked-choice voting that was used statewide in Maine for the first time last year.
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PublishedJune 12, 2019
Maine House rejects giving towns ‘local control’ over guns in polling places
The legislation would have allowed towns to set their own policies regarding whether guns could be carried at public meetings or in polling locations.
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