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The owners of Maine's largest power companies have spent more than $37 million to defeat Question 3, while the leading supporter of a public utility takeover has spent just over $1 million.

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Maine ballot questions handle everything from amending constitutional language to settling a debate among residents over utilities.

The 'Yes on 3' campaign for Pine Tree Power is challenging top executives at CMP and Versant to a public debate.

What the clues from 1914 to 2021 have to offer on the possible fate of Pine Tree Power. This fall’s elections are a full house: Four Constitutional amendments and as many Citizen Initiatives. Not since 1978 have we been offered so many of the former, not since 2016 the latter. The measure that’s the biggest […]

Mainers making their way through the lengthy Nov. 7 statewide ballot may come to a surprising conclusion: that the four constitutional amendments they’ll consider are considerably more interesting than the four rather tedious initiated referendum questions that precede them. Question 3, which envisions scrapping Maine’s century-old private but publicly regulated electric companies, Central Maine Power […]

Do we want to empower ourselves and choose our own energy direction by creating a customer-owned utility directly accountable to us?

The 'Yes on 3' campaign for Pine Tree Power is challenging top executives at CMP and Versant to a public debate.

In 40 years of reporting and editing on international energy, one thing I didn’t hear much about was the “customer base."

BAR HARBOR — The Bar Harbor Climate Emergency Task Force has endorsed a “Yes” vote on the Question 3 ballot item, per a press release issued on Oct. 23.