AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 23 -- The Maine House Democrats issued the following news release: The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Housing voted with unanimous support for legislation sponsored by Rep. Kristen Cloutier, D-Lewiston, to expand affordable housing. The bill would amend the Maine Cooperative Affordable Housing Ownership Act to include group equity cooperatives. It would also provide that a housing assistance program must be made reasonably available to residents of housing coopera more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 23 -- The Maine Senate Democrats issued the following news on Jan. 22, 2024: On Monday, Sen. Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic, introduced LD 780, "RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Protect Personal Reproductive Autonomy," at a public hearing before the Legislature's Judiciary Committee. Monday also marked the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. "In my lifetime, I remember when my access to birth control was limited and access to safe, legal abortio more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 23 -- The Maine House Democrats issued the following statement on Jan. 22, 2024, by State Rep. Lori K. Gramlich, D-Old Orchard Beach: * * * Like so many towns up and down the coast of Maine, our lovely seaside community sustained devastating damage during the storms we experienced this month. Property owners, working waterfronts and businesses alike are now trying to pick up the pieces and deal with the adverse economic consequences. Old Orchard Beach was hit particularly more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Jan. 23 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on Jan. 22, 2024: In testimony submitted to the Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary, Governor Janet Mills today called for the passage of a Reproductive Rights Amendment that would enshrine the right to reproductive autonomy in the Maine Constitution. The Governor's testimony comes on the 51st anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision establishing a U.S. Constitutional right  more PR

ORONO, Maine, Jan. 23 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: On a bench inside a high-tech workshop lay a life-sized sculpture of a medieval knight. Crafted by University of Maine artists with 3D scanning and layered Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machining, coupled with traditional sculpture methods, the five-and-a-half foot warrior wore plate and mail armor and bore a sword and shield. Though it appeared as if made from stone, the knight, which will soon ga more PR

ORONO, Maine, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Orono Brewing Company is serving one of Maine's pest experts Jim Dill twice by brewing his favorite style of beer and donating to tick research. The new JD Brown Ale, which is inspired by and named after Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist, will be tapped and served at both OBC locations in Orono and Bangor starting Jan. 18. Abe Furth, an owner of OBC, said kegs  more PR