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NEWS CENTER Maine political analysts Garrett Mason, Ken Altshuler, and Genius Black weighed in on the top issues of the week.

The Maine Legislature will return to wrap up session this week, but the governor and legislative leadership are not on the same page about what actions should be taken. Gov. Janet Mills has said the Legislature should only cast votes to overturn or sustain her vetoed legislation, a typical action permitted after statutory adjournment each […] The post A ‘Rubik’s cube’: Lawmakers reconvene as more than 200 bills await legislative action appeared first on Maine Morning ...

House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross is in her final term as a state representative and has registered to run for the state senate this fall.

Barry worked for years as a research librarian at the Maine Historical Society, wrote and contributed to books about Maine history, and penned hundreds of book reviews in the Maine Sunday Telegram.

In seven years in Augusta, Rachel Talbot Ross has risen from a back-bencher to the head of her chamber.

At the end of June, a group of teachers met to learn about using genealogy to teach inclusive history with Dustin Axe, the Youth Genealogy Curriculum Coordinator with the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS).  This workshop kicked off the American Ancestors pilot that supports teacher planning for inclusive historical inquiry projects using genealogy.  During … Continue reading Unraveling Roots: Cultivating Genealogy as an Instructive Journey

Steve Bull once raced against time to try to save the memoirs of one of Maine's gay rights pioneers. His trip led him down memory lane.

The Maine Department of Education has said it worked in good faith to enact a law championed by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross.

Juneteenth marks the day that enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, learned that the Civil War was over and they had been freed.

Over the coming week, Mainers across the state will be participating in events to mark Juneteenth, the celebration of what has come to symbolize the end of slavery in the U.S.. On June 19, 1965, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing enslaved people in rebel Confederate states, Union