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Politics, qualifying credentials and managerial expertise collide in the debate over who would operate a publicly owned utility.

The foreign-owned for-profit power companies are spending tens of millions of dollars to attack the Pine Tree Power initiative with big-money ads that only attack but don't offer any new vision for how they plan to improve. That should tell people an awful lot right there. It's much like a few years ago when they

Dear Editor: Do you know the executive director of the parent company of CMP? Or the chief executive of that company? The executive director is José Ignacio Sanchez Galan. The chief executive is Armando Martinez Martinez. Our power source, CMP, is...

It is a good thing we don’t have columnist Jim Fossel calling the plays (Oct. 1, “Pine Tree Power is a risky scheme with disastrous potential”). Republicans have a knack for making common sense a lot harder than it used to be. He said, “Entrusting politicians to run our electric utilities makes about as much […]

Public power companies have been around for a long time; give Pine Tree Power a chance.

Residents across Maine have the opportunity to decide on eight statewide ballot questions.

NORWAY — Pine Tree Power advocate Jonathan Fulford of Belfast will speak at the First Universalist Church of Norway on Thursday, October 19, at 6:30 p.m. in the church’s Concert Hall. The First Universalist Church of Norway is located at 479 Main Street, Norway. Pine Tree Power is a grassroots coalition with members all the […]

Approving Question 3 on the November ballot would ensure more responsive and rapid investment in connecting renewable energy sources to the state grid.

A recent letter writer (Oct. 2) tells us to vote for Pine Tree Power because “it could not possibly be worse.” I suggest Pine Tree Power could be worse, much worse. We’re told that Pine Tree Power will not run the grid itself, instead seeking bids from private companies to run it. What if the […]