Maine dissolves 27 local public health groups with little explanation
The LePage administration is undoing a structure created after years of statewide discussion and planning.
View ArticleLePage promised transparency, but multimillion-dollar contract awards remain...
It is nearly impossible for Maine residents to know how much state money is being spent on contracted services, which private businesses and nonprofit organizations receive large state contracts, and...
View ArticleHow did your small Maine town shape you?
We’d like to hear from you about your experience growing up in small-town Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, upper Penobscot, Aroostook, Washington or Hancock counties. How did your hometown shape who...
View ArticleThe poorest Maine school districts that pay the most
The cost that each local community pays each year varies in Maine from $2,000 per student to $25,000 per student.
View ArticleThe Maine towns with the greatest percentage of empty homes
Maine lost population unevenly over the last 15 years. Some counties hollowed out, while others grew in population.
View ArticleMaine’s efforts to help rural towns didn’t work. Here’s what it can learn...
“We don’t come in with our own agenda. It’s about helping communities become collective teams for action.”
View ArticleFrom hospitals to jails: How Maine’s mentally ill are still institutionalized
After a well-intentioned move decades ago to shift the care of the mentally ill away from psychiatric institutions, many Mainers can’t find adequate care in their communities. They still end up...
View ArticleOusted from her order, ‘Sister Lucy’ found her own way to support needy Mainers
“If you truly love your neighbor as yourself," she said, “you don’t put them in a shelter at night and throw them out on the street in the morning. Everything you have, you want for them as well.”
View ArticleInside Roxanne Quimby’s park-building efforts in Acadia, beyond
Despite the stated goals of benefiting the public, efforts by Roxanne Quimby and others to conserve and secure public access to land throughout the country have generated controversy.
View ArticleMaine has sliced the ranks of nurses who prevent outbreaks, help...
The LePage administration, which has not publicized the cuts, had the money to fill the positions.
View ArticleHow Maine quietly handed off financial oversight of a $23M program for infants
The circumstances raise questions about transparency and accountability.
View ArticleMaine got millions to help moms and babies, but has little to show for it
DHHS said it would reach more families and collaborate with other home visiting programs. But competition between the groups has only gotten worse.
View ArticleWe want to know: Have you ever been a mentor or mentee?
We want to know about how some people uplift the lives of others, even when they don’t have to.
View ArticleMaine police know sex trafficking is here, yet many still fail to fight it
"Our range of what we can do is very limited," said one police officer. "We’re losing."
View ArticleWith no explanation, Maine rejects scarce funds for young people with mental...
“To refuse these dollars makes no sense, especially because other states are using these dollars and using them well,” said Arabella Perez who previously led one of the organizations involved in the...
View ArticleInside the minds of Maine’s sex trafficking victims
Broke, with nobody to turn to, here’s how one 15-year-old Maine girl came to ‘the Life.’
View ArticleWhat drives Maine sex traffickers’ inhumanity
A look at the motives and calculations behind forcing people into the sex trade.
View ArticlePower companies push to meet goal of restoring electricity to all Mainers...
More than 3,000 workers continued efforts to meet Central Maine Power’s goal of restoring power to all customers who lost it as a result of Monday’s windstorm, but the company warned that as many as...
View ArticleFast-moving storm expected to dump up to a foot of snow across Maine
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning in advance of a storm expected to dump between six inches and a foot of snow on most of Maine on Wednesday. Snowfall predictions range...
View ArticleChinese demand continuing to boost Maine lobster prices, despite tariff threats
China’s hunger for American lobsters is helping keep prices high to U.S. consumers, and a tariff on the seafood does not appear imminent. The Asian country imported more than 17.8 million pounds of...
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