Brad Rogers

6 days ago | wgme.com | Brad Rogers

LISBON (WGME) – Lisbon residents are facing a potentially massive property tax increase. Town leaders say every year, their town and school budgets automatically go up hundreds of thousands of dollars. The difference this year is that revenues are down. "The proposed budget from all the departments was a 45 percent increase on property taxes," Lisbon resident and former state lawmaker Dale Crafts said.

6 days ago | fox23maine.com | Brad Rogers

LISBON (WGME) – Lisbon residents are facing a potentially massive property tax increase. Town leaders say every year, their town and school budgets automatically go up hundreds of thousands of dollars. The difference this year is that revenues are down. "The proposed budget from all the departments was a 45 percent increase on property taxes," Lisbon resident and former state lawmaker Dale Crafts said.

6 days ago | fox23maine.com | Brad Rogers

AUGUSTA (WGME) -- A bill calls for removing the term “gender identity” from the Maine Human Rights Act. Maine voters added the term “gender identity” to the Maine Human Rights Act 20 years ago. Some Republican lawmakers at the State House want it removed. "We’re all humans,” Jodi O’Connor, who opposes the bill, said. “We all deserve to be protected. We all deserve to exist.”O’Connor believes President Donald Trump and Maine Republican lawmakers are out to erase transgender people.

6 days ago | fox23maine.com | Brad Rogers

A bill up for a public hearing Thursday calls for removing the term “gender identity” from the Maine Human Rights Act. (WGME)

6 days ago | wgme.com | Brad Rogers

AUGUSTA (WGME) -- A bill up for a public hearing Thursday calls for removing the term “gender identity” from the Maine Human Rights Act. The public hearing hasn’t started yet because of all the people testifying on school-related bills. Maine voters added the term “gender identity” to the Maine Human Rights Act 20 years ago. Now, some Republican lawmakers at the State House want it removed. "We’re all humans,” Jodi O’Connor, who opposes the bill, said. “We all deserve to be protected.