Wen Stephenson, an independent journalist and climate activist, is at work on a book about climate justice to be published by Beacon Press in 2015. He helped launch the grassroots network 350 Massachusetts and serves on the board of Better Future Project, a nonprofit in Cambridge, Mass., dedicated to building the climate movement. A former editor at The Atlantic, where he co-created and edited TheAtlantic.com, and at The Boston Globe, where he edited the Sunday "Ideas" section, he was most recently the senior producer of NPR's On Point. He has written about climate, culture and politics for The Boston Phoenix, Grist, Slate, The New York Times, and the Globe. On Twitter: @wenstephenson.
A third of Maine’s electorate will have an opportunity for meaningful participation in taxpayer-funded elections. Governor Janet Mills allowed a bill to go into law Monday that creates a semi-open primary system that gives independent voters a say in the state's primaries.
AUGUSTA A pair of bills to end hunger in Maine by 2030 and establish semi-open primaries, championed by local state lawmakers were voted to be fully funded Friday. First, LD 174 “An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Ending Hunger by 2030.