Nov 19, 2024 · As election results continue to roll in, the process of interpreting those results has begun. This might seem premature, since it could be months before we have an accurate account of who actually voted in states. (Notoriously unreliable exit polls don’t count.) We do already know some things, though. We know that Republicans, led by

Jan 22, 2025 · On January 10, Governor Janet Mills unveiled her budget plans for Maine through 2027. While the proposal balances the budget through some revenue increases, it largely relies on cuts to previous commitments, impacting vulnerable Mainers and low wage workers while letting the rich and big corporations — whose wealth largely surged during the pandemic — off the

Nov 2, 2023 · This is a repost of an op-ed published by The Portland Townsman. On Tuesday, Oct. 24, Portland’s Planning Board voted to recommend zoning changes to Portland City Council that will gut the impact of state housing law LD 2003 in Portland. The details of these changes are described in a previous article. In brief, these

Jan 14, 2025 · Use of Maine’s yellow flag law has grown dramatically since the Lewiston mass shootings: law enforcement agencies completed more than 500 weapons restriction orders in the past 14 months, up from fewer than 100 in the three years prior to the tragedy. Since August, when an amendment to the yellow flag law went into effect,

Apr 26, 2021 · A Portland City Council committee recently voted to support an effort in the Maine State Legislature to defund a state police agency critics say infringes on Mainers’ rights to privacy and freedom of speech.. Earlier this month, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers led by state Rep. Charlotte Warren (D-Hallowell) introduced a bill to …

Jan 23, 2023 · One major potential solution to the state’s runaway cost of housing never seems to get discussed by Maine lawmakers: Public housing. For decades, the idea of building new publicly-owned, permanently affordable housing has been off the table, even as housing prices ballooned before the Great Recession of 2008 and have now reached new heights in Maine and across the country with national ...

Jan 6, 2025 · Josh Keefe is a government accountability reporter for The Maine Monitor with a focus on Maine’s child welfare system and indigent defense system. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville and Bangor Daily News. Originally from Veazie, he now lives in Portland. His accountability reporting on Tennessee’s child welfare system, Maine county law ...

Oct 18, 2024 · The Maine Supreme Court is currently deciding a case related to whether the public should be allowed to freely walk on Moody Beach in Wells.. Currently, there is a dispute as to whether the intertidal area of the shore (between the high and and low tide line) can be used for anything more than “fishing, fowling, and navigation.” Read literally, that basically means we Mainers can only walk ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Editor's Note: This podcast was recorded Wednesday morning, before the White House Office of Management and Budget rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans. This week on the podcast, Esther and Ben unpack some of the chaos the White House caused when it issued a since-rescinded directive that ordered a spending “pause” on

Apr 11, 2022 · Update: On April 14, three days after publication of this story, a family member of Gaven Charest notified Beacon that Charest had been transferred from Maine State Prison to Maine Correctional Center in Windham. That information was confirmed by a search Thursday of the Maine Department of Corrections' resident database. A man incarcerated in Maine