According to the latest CIVQS poll Trump would lost Maine by 26%.
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- As the first snowflakes fall and the temperatures drop, skiers are anxious to head to their favorite mountain. While many head for big resorts, thousands of skiers looking for a cozy, less crowded and less expensive experience will head to one of Maine's smaller ski areas. Some slopes are thriving, while some are just getting by. Either way, they face an uphill battle as they work to stay affordable and relevant as a source of winter fun. Read more here.
- The Maine Mall opened at 8 a.m. By 8:01 a.m., its walkways teemed with deal-hunters. But it was far from shoulder-to-shoulder traffic. As the holiday shopping season grows wider, and as more deals move online, what keeps shoppers door-busting brick-and-mortar stores? For some, it's tradition.
Inside Climate News - Three years ago, Maine was the first state in the nation to recognize the risks of PFAS—manmade chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other dire health problems—by outlawing the use of sewage sludge on farmland. But PFAS, testing showed, had already seeped into drinking-water wells and crop roots, tainting vegetables, beef and milk.
Research about PFAS is sobering and so are the concerns of people in this northern state who have worked and lived with them—and testified to state legislators about the high rates of contamination at their farming businesses and in their bodies.
“We have farmers in Maine who have more PFAS in their blood than the factory workers in the 3M plants [that produce PFAS], because we eat it, we drink it, we live it,” said Bill Pluecker, the public policy organizer at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA).
The demand to ban sludge as a fertilizer has been hailed as an environmental corrective, but there are no easy fixes to the PFAS dilemma. Lawmakers and state regulators have yet to figure out, in two years of consultations, a long-term solution for truckloads of sludge still being produced at wastewater treatment facilities and sent to landfills.
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Maine Trust for Local News - Jody Hartman and his two dogs Stella, right, and Mabel at their home in Freeport. Hartman’s dogs are famous on social media with millions of views on the videos Hartman takes of them. |