In The News 
State panel debates access to medical pot
Nearly one month after voters supported expanding Maine’s medical marijuana law, members of a task force began debating how best to help sick patients get easier access to the drug without threatening public safety or creating a bureaucratic nightmare.
No probe for city’s TABOR fliers
The state ethics commission decided Thursday against an investigation into whether South Portland should be required to file campaign finance reports because of a flier it sent regarding the Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Another tax reform proposal on the horizon
Forget the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, the 1 percent tax cap and the failed excise tax cut. Next up is "An Act to Implement Tax Relief and Tax Reform," a new tax policy battle Maine people will likely be asked to consider in the spring.
When Voters Disrupt the Tea Party
Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.
Observers: Loss by TABOR showing trust
People rarely have nice things to say about politicians. But Tuesday's lopsided defeat of Question 4 revealed that the vast majority of Maine voters trust their elected officials, political observers said Wednesday.
Maine, Washington Defeat Referendums on Tax Extremism
In Maine and Washington State, voters Tuesday overwhelmingly told the extremist right-wing, anti-worker crowd to take their efforts to cripple state governments and slash vital services and shove them.
Tea Baggers Get Kicked Where it Hurts
It should come as no surprise that most of the political and pundit class in the beltway are looking in all the wrong places as they try to use the 2009 elections as a barometer of where the country is at. The good news is, progressives won big on a topic that will likely define the nature of the midterm election.
Anti-Marriage Equality Ad Rings False on the Merits
A new anti-marriage equality ad is claiming registered domestic partners are accorded a legal status similar to that of a married person. But the ad rings false on the merits, and 'similar' doesn't mean 'the same.'
New poll: Marriage equality supporters in lead
A new poll released today by Pan Atlantic SMS Group of Portland shows a 53-42 percent advantage to supporters of same-sex marriage.
MEA to battle ‘real threat’
The union that represents 25,000 Maine school employees is retooling its mission until Nov. 3 to focus entirely on defeating a ballot initiative the group characterizes as an "immediate and real threat" to the state's public schools.
