Graham Platner 51% (+6)
Susan Collins* 45%
Maine House Democrats - We just finished up the second session of the 132nd Legislature in Augusta....Some highlights include:
+Ensuring tax fairness with a millionaire's tax!
+Supporting education and child care by overhauling the state school funding formula to ensure every town receives its fair share, raising starting salaries for teachers, clearing the child care waitlists, and guaranteeing free meals for public pre-K students.
+Making a $68 million investment to build affordable homes and providing annual property tax relief by increasing the Property Tax Fairness Credit from $1,000 to $1,500.
+Protecting women’s rights from the Trump Administration by ensuring funding for reproductive health care centers and starting a program to track sexual assault forensic examination kits.
+Protecting immigrants by prohibiting ICE from accessing dorms, schools, libraries, and hospitals without a warrant from a judge.
+Introducing first-in-nation legislation that will put a temporary ban on data center development, giving the state time to put guardrails in place that will protect Maine’s natural resources and ensure electric costs for consumers aren’t driven up by big corporations.
Press Herald
The small mountain town doesn’t immediately seem like one of Maine’s most vibrant cannabis markets. Bethel, a community of about 2,500 in the White Mountains, has about one dispensary, grow, or manufacturing facility for every 200 residents — the highest concentration of cannabis businesses of any Maine municipality with more than 1,500 residents. To locals, the surprise isn’t the number of shops, but how they all manage to stay in business.
A Maine island airline says the United States Postal Service owes nearly $400,000 for mail deliveries dating back to 2023, prompting it “to make a small stand” Tuesday. Penobscot Island Air says it has ferried mail on 75 days so far in 2026 without payment. A USPS spokesperson said Tuesday that the agency will be reaching out to the airline “to resolve the matter.” But the airline says it has already been in regular contact with USPS, to no avail.