Testimony: Rein in the Administrative State
Testimony in Support of LD 1840, “An Act to Reform the State’s Administrative and Rule-making Procedures” Senator Nangle, Representative Stover, and the distinguished members of the Committee on State and […]
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Testimony: Increasing Child Care Choices
Testimony in Support of LD 1729: “An Act to Reduce Child Care Provider Regulation” Senator Baldacci, Representative Meyer, and the distinguished members of the Committee on Health and Human Services, […]
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Op-Ed: Maine lawmakers, regulators made child care as expensive as it is today
Over the last couple decades, Maine’s child care providers have seen more rules added to the books in the name of “quality,” while providers – particularly family providers, which are […]
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Testimony: Protecting the Rights of Individuals and Businesses Through Regulatory Reform
Testimony in Support of LD 1744: “An Act to Strengthen Accountability in Rulemaking by Providing for Legislative Oversight” Senator Nangle, Representative Stover, and the distinguished members of the Committee on […]
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Testimony: Protecting the Sale of Legal Products in Pharmacies
Testimony in Opposition to LD 1558, “An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies” Senator Baldacci, Representative Meyer, and the distinguished members […]
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Throwing money at Maine’s childcare system won’t solve its underlying problems
Gov. Janet Mills announced in July that $10 million in federal relief funds were being allocated to “help child care businesses start or expand.” Given that vast swaths of Maine […]
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The housing crunch is in southern Maine. That’s why statewide policy and broad mandates are a bad idea
Up For Growth (UFG), a nonprofit membership organization which was “founded to elevate and amplify the need for solutions” to the housing issue, recently published a report on the state […]
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Maine’s next legislature must clarify vague mineral mining law on lithium
Last October, public interest journalism outfit The Maine Monitor broke the story of a newly-discovered large—and extremely valuable—lithium ore deposit in Newry, a small town in western Maine which is […]
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Understanding the importance of sunset provisions
According to the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform, Maine is currently ranked 44th in the nation in terms of its “economic outlook.” A 2022 analysis conducted […]
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Release: Maine Policy Urges Veto on LD 2003
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 26, 2022Contact: Jacob PosikDirector of CommunicationsOffice: 207.321.2550 Maine Policy Urges Gov. Mills to Veto LD 2003,‘An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To […]
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