Heather Sanborn

And she had been working at Daymark before that, has worked with utility commissions around the country on renewable energy policy and economics.

And then Heather Sanborn has been public advocate since January 2025, heading toward two years.

Used to be in the state legislature, both the House and the Senate, from areas of Falmouth, Portland, and Westbrook, and co-founded a microbrewery, which I can say the name Rising Tide in case anybody wants to still go there and enjoy it.

And then we have two more.

by appealing to low-income customers.

Public advocate Heather Sanborn says subscribing to a solar farm could mean that people enrolled in the low-income assistance program don't receive their full benefit.

We want to make sure that folks are

target marketing to low-income customers.

The Washington Post went and interviewed more than two dozen people who worked around him in leadership.

What they described was a man who yells and curses at colleagues as a matter of routine.

CNN and the New York Times reported the same thing.

If you want to know whether any of that has changed, watch the final debate.

Collins called it very telling.

And when he was asked about it afterward, Jackson said he has no regrets.

So we have an assault he admits to, a domestic allegation he denies, a thrown bottle, a couple dozen colleagues on the record about his temper, a residence he swore to on a federal form that he can't square with his travel reimbursements.

Maine Democrats didn't choose him to be a different kind of candidate from Graham Plattner.

As Peter McGuire reports, the breakdown counters claims that renewable energy developments are a major cost driver.

Public advocate Heather Sanborn says subsidies for an abandoned community solar program are the smallest factor increasing Mainers' monthly bills.

no one policy solution and no one backward-looking blame game is going to be able to explain where we are at right now or how to go forward and drive prices down in the future.

The OPA says a typical household bill increased 72 percent over the last six years to almost $160 a month.