Emera Maine

Every couple of weeks we seem to end up with a news story that perfectly fits the 'only in Maine' category. This particular story seems to be another good fit for our growing list. And the best part? It doesn't appear that there was any harm done to birds or humans...

Though the majority of outages have been restored, there are still thousands in the state that are in the dark. According to the CMP outage map, there were 3,552 customers without power as of 5:45 AM on 2/28/20. The majority of those outages are in Franklin County and the majority of those outages were in the town of Phillips...

My initial gut reaction is that I don't want government, whether state or local, to continually take over private sector commerce.