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ClaimFound s Unclaimed Property MAPS Goes Live in Maine
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GAINESVILLE, Fla., Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In an effort to help return more unclaimed property to their constituents, ClaimFound announces the Maine State Treasury launched MAPS (Mapping Abandoned Property Searches). This technology allows visitors of a state s unclaimed property website a new way to visually search for their lost money.
The technology enables any constituent visiting an unclaimed property department s website to visually search for their property via geographic pins on an interactive state map. Similar to a Google Maps view, visitors can search for the various places they have lived and worked to see if there is unclaimed property listed at those addresses.
Eye on Augusta: Mills Administration Bows to Business, Proposes Massive Tax Breaks for Profitable Companies
by Andy OâBrien Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:51 AM
Andy O’Brien is communications director at Maine AFL-CIO. He is a former managing editor of The Free Press and a former state legislator. His Eye on Augusta column appears every other week in The Free Press. Governor Janet Mills finally caved to pressure from business groups last week when she proposed an $82 million tax break on federal relief companies received during the pandemic. Under federal law, Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans are not subject to a federal tax, but they are taxed under state law and business groups have been calling on the Mills administration to conform to the federal tax law.
Lawmakers urged to yank state investments from fossil fuel companies
Legislature weighs measure that proponents say would help combat a growing climate crisis.
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Pumpjacks operate in January 2015 at the Kern River Oil Field in Bakersfield, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in October 2019 intended to counter Trump administration plans to increase oil and gas production on protected public land.
Less than a decade after Maine’s tiny Unity College kicked off an international effort to cease investments in fossil fuel companies, the effort has grown to encompass more than $14 trillion in endowments and investment portfolios.
And if some environmentalists have their way, the state of Maine will join the movement soon.