Carol Bousquet

1 week ago | mainepublic.org | Carol Bousquet

Hundreds of protesters rallied at the University of Southern Maine in Portland on Thursday afternoon as part of a National Day of Action against President Trump's policies on worker rights, education and immigration. At USM, graduate students called for a union contract. Brendan McQuade, Chair of the Criminology and Sociology Departments at USM, said graduate student workers have gone more than 500 days without fair wages.

2 weeks ago | bangordailynews.com | Carol Bousquet

Canada-based Acadian Seaplants closed its Maine operations in Jonesboro in April, citing the exchange rate, transportation costs and tariffs as the drivers of the decision. Company President and CEO Jean Pierre DeVeaux spoke to a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporter about the closure a week ago, saying tariffs will cost his business millions of dollars on an annual basis. “We are coming into the season. We had to make a decision. Do we operate or not.

2 weeks ago | mainepublic.org | Carol Bousquet

Canada-based Acadian Seaplants closed its Maine operations in Jonesboro earlier this month, citing the exchange rate, transportation costs, and tariffs as the drivers of the decision. Company president and CEO Jean Pierre DeVeaux spoke to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter about the closure a week ago, saying tariffs will cost his business millions of dollars on an annual basis. "We are coming into the season. We had to make a decision. Do we operate or not.

2 weeks ago | mainepublic.org | Carol Bousquet

Hundreds of people attended Seaweed Saturday at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland. The event included four panels on seaweed sustainability, the history of seaweed farming and how seaweed can reduce greenhouse gases. Nicole Price, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, was on the panel about climate change and said seaweed captures CO2 through photosynthesis and fragments of seaweed containing the CO2 fall off the blades.

2 weeks ago | mainepublic.org | Carol Bousquet

The lack of attorney representation for indigent clients has prompted one lawmaker to introduce a bill to require court clerks to enter judges' orders appointing public defenders into the docket within 24 hours and to notify those attorneys right away. Attorney Rob Ruffner testified before the Judiciary Committee that attorneys who are appointed indigent cases are sometimes not notified for two weeks or more. And he said that can have devastating consequences.