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Want to see the future of Maine’s coast? Here it is. “How seven wealthy summer residents halted workforce housing on Mount Desert Island” themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-… via The Maine Monitor

I went deep on a story that shows how a Maine town’s desire to fix its workforce housing crisis rises or falls on the machinations of its wealthy donor class (who only live there a few months a year). From Mount Desert Island for the The Maine Monitor themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-…

In Mount Desert, the median house price doubled to 900k in just 5 years. For The Maine Monitor Josh Keefe dove into one attempt to build workforce housing & the ways 7 wealthy summer residents are fighting to stop the project— a project that’s 6 units total themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-…

Why we need professional journalists: JD Vance rep tells @wsj about Anna Kilgore, a Springfield OH woman whose cat went missing in August, so Kris Maher drives to her house. She found the cat in her basement and apologized to her Haitian neighbors.

In a quarter of Maine House races, one of the major parties didn’t bother to run a candidate. For this story, I talked with a Maine lawmaker running for a fourth term that has never faced an opponent — either in the primary or general. themainemonitor.org/one-major-part…

This is the first time the Committee on Judicial Conduct has recommended discipline against a judge on the Supreme Court. Now, Maine’s highest court must decide how to judge one of its own members, with history and law offering little guidance. READ: buff.ly/3UYs7lJ

Wrote about how the Maine Supreme Court must decide about disciplining a sitting justice, a first. I also found that Justice Connors seems to still have a financial stake in one of Maine's largest law firms, which also lobbies the legislature. themainemonitor.org/uncharted-recu…

Eye-opening story by Sawyer Loftus. Maine is unique in excluding people in public housing from eviction assistance funds, so instead of helping a woman who owed $950 in back rent, taxpayers spent $55,000 to house her in a homeless shelter for two years. bangordailynews.com/2024/12/12/mai…

Federal data tells a very different story about DHHS and child welfare in Maine than the one I hear being told by politicians. My latest for the The Maine Monitor. themainemonitor.org/dhhs-moving-ag…

“People rely on us, we got no notice that this was going to happen.” Last update for tonight on how housing assistance in Maine will be affected by the federal grant freeze: bangordailynews.com/2025/01/28/ban…

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.

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🧵 In a highly unusual move, the FCC has asked CBS News to hand over the unedited transcript and tapes from its interview with VP Kamala Harris last fall. CBS says "we are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do."

Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/2…

Our senior health reporter, Rose Lundy, joins NEWS CENTER Maine to discuss vaccines for schoolchildren in Maine. Watch the full video here: newscentermaine.com/video/news/reg…

Susan Collins is a NO on Kash Patel

How the Trump administration took aim at Maine. The acting head of the Social Security Administration called the state’s governor “disrespectful” and vowed there would be consequences, by Joanna Slater Lisa Rein washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04…

ICE boasts of preventing illegal "ideas" from crossing the border.