Proposal for fuller public defender system is a good start
"While this may seem like a lot of money, it is a needed investment in the constitutional rights and well being of low-income Mainers."
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"While this may seem like a lot of money, it is a needed investment in the constitutional rights and well being of low-income Mainers."
The one-and-a-quarter-mile coastal walk between Ogunquit and Perkins Cove offers arresting vistas at every turn.
The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is not asking to fund the offices all at once, but wants state leaders to commit to the proposal.
As proud Mainers, it can rankle us just a bit when people take the term Down East and apply it to things that not only aren’t in Washington or Hancock counties — they aren’t even in Maine.
Two Maine scientists give a crash course on all things that slither, hop and crawl here. (And how you can help them keep tabs on all that slithering.)