Mainer

In public comments, residents have invoked the state’s motto to rally Mainers: “Dirigo,” Latin for “I lead.”

Following an uproar, that action was reversed within a day, but it raised suspicions that it was undertaken to punish Mainers for their Democratic governor’s public upbraiding of Trump at a Washington meeting.

The changes force Mainers to bring their babies into one of just eight offices across the state, with swaths of the state an hour or more away.

It’s proven a durable and appealing structure, whether employed by fellow Midwesterner Ray Bradbury in “Dandelion Wine” or Mainer Elizabeth Strout in her “Olive Kitteridge” novels.

“No Mainers should be afraid that by registering to vote that their information will be published online and that they’ll face threat, harassment and other harms.”