AUGUSTA, Maine, June 25 -- Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey issued the following news release: Attorney General Aaron M. Frey lauded the passage and signing of a bill to create the Maine Retirement Savings Program. The bill, LD 1622, was sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli and will receive initial funding from settlement funds obtained by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). It will create a private-public partnership to enable Maine workers who do not have retirement savin  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, June 25 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Governor Janet Mills has signed the following bills into law: * LD 957 An Act To Authorize Expanded Deferred Disposition Requirements * LD 963 An Act To Ensure Culturally Informed Programs and Services for Adjudicated Juveniles in the Custody of the Department of Corrections * LD 1030 An Act Regarding Courts' Authority To Protect Children When a Parent Has Been Awarded Sole Parental Rights and Responsibi  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, June 25 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Governor Mills has signed the following bills into law: * LD 31 An Act To Adopt the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact * LD 213 An Act To Require Coverage for Female Firefighters Facing Reproductive System Cancer * LD 320 An Act To Provide the Right to Counsel for Juveniles and Improve Due Process for Juveniles * LD 336 An Act To Encourage Research To Support the Maine Offshore Wind Industry * LD 3  more

ORONO, Maine, June 24 (TNSPar) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Walgreens and the University of Maine have signed a workforce development agreement as part of the Corporate Connections Program of the Maine Business School and its Graduate School of Business. As the program's first Corporate Colleague, the second largest pharmaceutical retailer in the nation with more than 400,000 associates will have access to in-state tuition rates, fast-track admissions and profes  more

ORONO, Maine, June 25 (TNSJou) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Individuals who experience migraines are prone to a brain energy deficit between attacks, whether through increased demand or inadequate energy production according to a new analysis which finds that an energy impairment may cause brain oxidative stress, triggering a migraine as a protective response. This analysis sheds light on why migraines occur and helps explain how a migraine aura is kindled and   more

ORONO, Maine, June 24 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: Paloma Henriques, a marine policy master's student at the University of Maine has been awarded a 2021 Switzer Fellowship by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. Henriques, a marine policy master's student in the School of Marine Sciences, is advised by Joshua Stoll. Her research is focused on creating alternatives to sustainability certifications that serve the needs and capacities of small-scal  more