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LEWISTON A final report from the city’s Charter Review Committee unanimously supports moving to staggered terms for elected officials, and suggests making the change could be easier than previously thought.
In early August, the City Council will review the committee’s final report, which was completed over the past five months. Lewiston’s charter calls for a review every 10 years.
By June, it became clear that the committee, led by former longtime City Administrator Ed Barrett, was in favor of staggered terms and other changes that could require an elected Charter Commission.
However, the group’s report released Thursday states that a recent court opinion appears to, “broaden the scope of what we initially believed could be included in (a charter) amendment.”
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Appellate advocacy is about persuasion – and the most important avenue for persuading appellate judges is a brief that is clear, concise, and readable. So what does an appellate attorney do when confronted by the need to quote a passage that contains ellipses, citations, or alterations in brackets? One less-than-desirable option is to include all of that extraneous material and a long citation string, making for a hard-to-read quote that is central to your case. But there is another option – and it was just endorsed by Justice Thomas last month.
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Construction has started on Central Maine Power s corridor that is meant to carry hydroelectric power from Quebec into the New England regional grid, although the project still faces numerous legal and other challenges.
Central Maine Power first proposed building a transmission line to Canada in 2017, and four years of controversy later, there are still hurdles ahead: legal challenges at the state and federal levels, a statewide ballot item set for November, unexpected technical issues to address.
But on Thursday, a federal court lifted an injunction that barred tree-clearing in one disputed segment.
And elsewhere on the corridor, trees are being cut and cleared, and poles are rising from the brush. Some observers say the $950 million project s gathering momentum could make it unstoppable.