AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 2 -- The Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2024: Following a more than 24 percent pay increase for State of Maine employees in just under five years, the Department of Administrative and Financial Services today submitted a report to the Legislature outlining a new strategy to promote competitive pay and benefits for employees. In 2020, the Mills Administration conducted a Market Study Report that compare more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 2 -- The Maine Department of Education issued the following news release on Feb. 1, 2024: The Maine Department of Education (DOE) delivered a report today to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs of the Maine Legislature detailing recommendations to solve decades-long structural challenges that have limited Maine's ability to successfully provide special education services to preschool-aged children. The recommendations include a proposal to transit more PR

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 2 -- The Maine Senate Democrats issued the following news: On Thursday, the Legislature's Judiciary Committee voted in favor of LD 780, "RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Protect Personal Reproductive Autonomy," sponsored by Sen. Eloise Vitelli, D-Arrowsic. The Reproductive Rights Amendment received a vote of 6-5, with two members absent. "As someone who remembers a time before Roe v. Wade, I know how vital access to safe reproductive healt more PR