Press Herald - ICE has held a Maine resident in jail for 8 months. The ACLU says that’s illegal.
Newsbreak - Maine lawmakers are advancing a Republican proposal to lift one of the remaining vestiges of the state's 'blue laws' by allowing retailers to open on Sundays and holidays. The legislation, which cleared the Legislature's Committee on Housing and Economic Development on Wednesday, would repeal a state law prohibiting some retailers from opening on Sundays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and other major holidays.
Newsbreak - A bill to require cities and towns to allow backyard chickens is
flying through the State House and should soon land on Gov. Janet Mills
desk.
Rep. Jennifer Poirier, R-Skowhegan, sponsored the legislation after hearing that some cities and towns were prohibiting the birds despite the 2021 passage of a right to food constitutional amendment.
Maine was the first state in the country to enshrine a right to food in its state constitution. It reads “that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing.” Voters approved it with 60 percent support.