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Read Article State Rep. Christopher Kessler is sponsoring a bill that would add a fee to short-term rentals and vacation homes that are vacant more than six months of the year to help fund affordable housing programs. Kessler’s district includes parts of Scarborough and South Portland, where in Thornton Heights, an affordable housing development seen at right is being built across from motels that frequently are used as housing for the homeless. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer Some Maine lawmakers want to impose new fees on wealthier property owners who own vacation homes or operate short...

Letter to the editor: Open Maine’s primary elections to unenrolled voters Given the high percentage of uncompetitive legislative races and the fact that taxpayers foot the bill for primaries, something has to change. Share Maine has a tradition of civic duty and strong voter participation. However, there is one area where I believe we are falling short: Under current law, the 32 percent of Maine voters who are unenrolled in a party – often referred to as “independents” – are unable to participate in primary elections. Portland election clerk Judy Smith checks in Caralee Oster at th...

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Members of the Maine Legislature’s taxation committee split three ways in their efforts to reach a recommendation on how the state should conform its tax