Maine residents are set to vote next week on a ballot initiative that would make the state the first with a publicly owned electric utility governed by an elected board. Proponents say the initiative could chart a new path forward for utilities, increasing local control of something that profoundly affects people's lives and reducing service interruptions in Maine, which leads the nation in frequency of power outages. Detractors, meanwhile, say it would be prohibitively expensive. The ballot initiative, Question 3, would allow for “a new power company governed by an elected board to acquire and operate existing for-profit electricity transmission and distribution facilities i
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