Maine county commissioners have ‘huge incentive’ to pass extreme resolutions Contributed • February 15, 2021
By David Marino Jr., Bangor Daily News Staff
Recent resolutions stridently opposing Gov. Janet Mills’ COVID-19 measures from commissioners in Androscoggin and Piscataquis counties have focused new attention on a level of government that seldom attracts much notice.
All 16 of Maine’s counties are governed by county commissioners, but their power is generally limited to setting budgets for sheriff’s offices, jails and a few other functions, as well as some local matters in the sparsely populated unorganized territories.
Their relative lack of direct influence coupled with the public’s general lack of interest in the positions make county commissions ripe for overt partisanship, according to experts and those with experience in Maine county government.
On Nov. 9, 2020, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, acting in his capacity as Chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, announces that he and other GOP members were taking legal action aimed at invalidating mail-in votes in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Image credit: Lamar White, Jr. | Bayou Brief.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!” Mark Twain, autobiographical dictation, Dec. 2, 1906.
PROLOGUE
In the late morning of Jan. 6, 2021, only a few minutes after President Donald Trump took the stage at the Ellipse, the park overlooking the South Lawn of the White House, Louisiana’s chief legal officer, Jeff Landry, opened a press conference in Baton Rouge.
More than 10 positive cases were reported last week, the most the tribe has recorded in any week since the pandemic began, following a funeral and gatherings held to grieve a 4-year-old boy who died in a traffic accident.
Rosenbaum is a Senior Fellow and Interim Program Area Lead for Food Assistance, who joined the Center in 2000.
Her work focuses primarily on federal and state issues in SNAP as well as issues that.
27 January 2021
By: Elizabeth Van Wye
Dr. Maxine Minkoff, the new executive director of the Centers for Culture and History in Orleans. COURTESY PHOTO
ORLEANS – Dr. Maxine Minkoff loves to do jigsaw puzzles. In fact, she admits to loving to solve puzzles of all kinds. The Orleans resident and retired principal of Nauset Regional Middle School, now also the newly named executive director of the Centers for Culture and History (the CHO) in Orleans, has just the right skills for her new job, especially the ability to pull all the pieces together to form a cohesive new picture.
Founded in 1958, the CHO, formerly the Orleans Historical Society, hosts exhibits and programs in the Meetinghouse Museum on River Road and oversees the historic CG 36500 lifeboat used in the Pendleton rescue, now on display at Nauset Marine East. The addition of “Culture” to the group s title represents an increased focus on change and cultural growth that allows the group t