{"id":126771,"date":"2023-12-10T01:44:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=126771"},"modified":"2023-12-10T01:44:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T01:44:04","slug":"maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=126771","title":{"rendered":"Maine considers electrifying proposal that would give the boot to corporate electric utilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine (AP) \u2014 Taking a page from the \u201cthrow-the-bums-out\u201d script in politics, Mainers are poised to vote on an unprecedented plan to rid themselves of the state\u2019s two largest electric utilities and start with a clean slate. The proposed takeover of two investor-owned utilities that distribute 97% of electricity in the state would mark [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/pmn\/news-pmn\/maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Maine (AP) \u2014 Taking a page from the \u201cthrow-the-bums-out\u201d script in politics, Mainers are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities.jpeg",1000,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities-300x225.jpeg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities-768x576.jpeg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities.jpeg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities.jpeg",1000,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities.jpeg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities.jpeg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/126771-maine-considers-electrifying-proposal-that-would-give-the-boot-to-corporate-electric-utilities-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}