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Scholars Strategy Network: Why Maine needs L.D. 2 This bill would require the Legislature to assess the potential racial impact, however unintended, of any act the legislature passes. By Steven E. Barkan Share “Systemic racism” refers to the complex interaction of societal institutions and embedded normative practices that produce racial inequality by disadvantaging Black Americans, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous peoples. We hear this term often these days, and rightly so. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, people of color across the nation have been contracting and dying from the v...

Feb. 21—CHARLESTON — Bills now working their way through the legislative process would impact public service employees, including teachers, who engage in a strike. Senate Bill 11 includes language emphasizing and spelling out the illegality of public employees striking, and specifying the action could result in them being fired and at the very least losing pay for days missed. Not only that, ...

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Letter to the editor: Racial impact statements bill is long overdue Share Thank you to House Assistant Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, for introducing L.D. 2, An Act to Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process, and kudos to the Editorial Board for endorsing the proposal. These racial impact statements could be particularly instructive for Sen. Susan Collins. When asked about systemic racism during last October’s Senate debate, she flatly replied: “I do not believe systemic racism is a problem in the state of Maine.” Perhaps this denial...

The Atlantic Tight security harms the daily functioning of the legislative branch. February 10, 2021 May-Ying Lam / Redux Even after the 7,000 National Guard troops currently deployed around the United States Capitol pack up following the impeachment trial, the Hill will not be returning to normal. “We must harden this campus,” House Sergeant at Arms Timothy Blodgett warned in a closed Appropriations Committee session late last month. Yogananda Pittman, the acting chief of the Capitol Police, recently called for “vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure.” Those plans�...