Stay updated with breaking news from Willy Ritch. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Maine voters have rejected a proposal to replace the state's leading electric companies, Central Maine Power and Versant Power, with the nonprofit Pine Tree Power.
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
Maine voters decide on several ballot initiatives, including utility takeover, foreign spending ban, tribal treaties and right to repair.
Maine voters rejected a ballot initiative Tuesday that would have replaced the state’s electric utilities with the first state consumer-owned utility. The initiative, Question 3, would have created the Pine Tree Power company through a takeover of Maine’s two investor-owned utilities, Versant and CMP. The Associated Press called the race Tuesday night with about 68…
Taking a page from the “throw-the-bums-out” script in politics, Mainers will vote on whether to rid themselves of the state’s two biggest private electric utilities. The referendum on the November