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Gov. Janet Mills' plan for free tuition, at a cost to the state of $20 million, is a bargain.

Maine has been in full policy-by-referendum mode since 2016, when no fewer than five major questions appeared, and things haven't gotten a lot easier for voters-as-legislators since then. The most important pending question is the one you've probably heard least about: an effort by a consortium of providers and public health groups to bring a version of "...

Medicare for All in Maine could attract overdue attention to the multiple failures of a privately dominated system of huge insurers, drug companies and enormous numbers of “middlemen” far more adept at producing profit for their owners than providing health care for the American people.

Three referendum questions that sponsors hoped to get on the November ballot will instead appear, most likely, in 2023, perhaps providing some needed breathing room.

Legislators will now shift to committee work from home via the magic of electronics for the foreseeable future.