OTHER HOT ISSUES

Boston Globe -Pet owners in South Portland can continue taking their dogs to a local beach after voters rejected a proposal that would have banned dogs there for much of the year. By a 60-40 margin, residents on Tuesday voted down a proposal to limit dogs at Willard Beach.

Portland Press Herald - An effort to amend the state Constitution to give city and town clerks more time to check petition signatures on citizen ballot initiatives was failing by four percentage points late Tuesday. With 509 precincts, or 84 percent, reporting, the proposal was falling 243,831 to 233,763 or 52 percent to 48 percent. The proposal would increase the amount of time clerks have to certify petition signatures from five days to 10, which would reduce the amount of overtime communities would have to pay workers.