Author: Cara DeRose
Cara DeRose is a staff writer for Beacon. A graduate of the University of Southern Maine, she served as writer and copy editor for the USM Free Press and interned at the Portland Press Herald.
The arrival of spring this year brought a explosion of ticks across Maine and, with it, a surge in tick-borne diseases. Conservation groups are warning that the milder winters, earlier springs, and hotter summers that signal a changing climate are also making the state even more hospitable to the blood-sucking parasites. Maine Conservation Voters held…
A new Kittery School District policy guaranteeing the rights of transgender and gender expansive students has become the target of an online campaign by the Christian Civic League of Maine (CCL), an anti-LGBTQ organization. The school policy, which received a unanimous vote of approval at its first public reading during a Kittery School Committee meeting…
Months after Walmart laid off roughly 10,000 workers, shareholders on Wednesday voted at their annual meeting to raise company CEO Doug McMillon’s pay package by half a million dollars, underscoring what watchdogs say is the inequity of the recent corporate tax cuts. According to Arkansas Business, in addition to hiking executive pay, the corporate shareholders…