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      Energy Giants Spending Millions to Block This State's Effort to Create Consumer-Owned Utility

      Maine's investor-owned utility companies are spending millions to stop a proposed consumer takeover.

      Jon Lamson
      Aug 24, 2022

      As the 2022 election season heats up, Maine's highest spending political committee doesn't belong to the fundraising division of any political party. Instead, the dubious honor belongs to a ballot question committee called Maine Affordable Energy.

      The proposal would create a new nonprofit consumer-owned utility company, covering the vast majority of the state's residential power load.

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      In Landslide 1,108-to-387 Vote, Maine Nurses Reject Effort to Decertify Their Union

      "They thought because we were a new union, they could manipulate Maine Med nurses and overturn our 2021 election," said one nurse. "But we just showed them the door."

      Jake Johnson
      Aug 19, 2022

      Nurses at Maine Medical Center have voted by an overwhelming margin to keep the union that they opted to join last year, fending off a decertification effort backed by a right-wing legal group dedicated to rolling back workers' ability to organize and bargain collectively.

      The vote, held in person on August 17 and 18, favored the union even more heavily than the initial 1,001 to 750 vote in 2021.

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      Young Rural Progressives Have a Message for the Democratic Establishment

      "The future of progressive politics—and indeed our democracy—demands that we revive our relationship with rural communities," write Maine state Sen. Chloe Maxmin and her campaign manager.

      Brett Wilkins
      May 02, 2022

      Arguing that the Democratic Party and its candidates have "willfully abandoned rural communities" as they focus on winning in the cities and suburbs, a progressive Maine state lawmaker and her campaign manager offer a dire warning--and solutions--in a Mondayop-ed.

      "The only way for Democrats to regain traction in rural places is by running strong campaigns in districts that usually back Republicans."

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