AUGUSTA — A new Maine Legislature is set to start work Wednesday. And the upcoming session is shaping up to be anything but business as usual. Along with having to build and adopt a new two-year state budget, lawmakers will wrestle with the impacts of four major new laws passed by voters in November, from legalized marijuana to a new education tax. Maine’s firebrand Republican Gov.
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