In the last 13 days before Election Day, state campaign finance records show millions of dollars coming in, millions going out – much of it for the heated race for governor.
Marina Villeneuve
Marina Villeneuve was an investigative reporting fellow in 2014 for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. She primarily worked on accountability projects on public safety and state government.
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The ‘gatekeepers’: Ten wealthy Mainers giving $3.95 million to this election
The top 10 individual Maine donors to state and national political campaigns represent just .001 percent of Maine’s adult population of about one million. But that minuscule percentage represents 27.3 percent of all donations to candidates, parties and causes from contributors with a Maine address.
‘We’re not getting anywhere’: A judge’s day enforcing victim restitution orders
On Aug. 20, three offenders who owe victims restitution came before District Court Judge Gregory Campbell in his Bangor courtroom. Their cases illustrate common issues the courts have in enforcing restitution agreements.
Chief judge: Restitution “system is imperfect and we know it”
Our investigation found Maine’s system for compensating victims of non-violent crimes is overburdened, uncoordinated and promises what it can’t deliver.
Crime victims have little help getting their due from the system
In Maine, crime victims are nearly alone in navigating a confusing and understaffed restitution system.
‘Fundamental reality’: State’s system for helping crime victims a failure
District attorneys from across the state are as frustrated as crime victims with the fundamental reality of the restitution system in Maine: it’s broken.
Veterans’ group victimized by $50,000 fraud — and then by justice system
Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson said two thirds of the 1,181 restitution cases in her county are in default.
Sens. Collins, Murray call for R&D to improve rail safety
Sen. Susan Collins is leading an effort to get smaller railroads more federal funding to train emergency responders how to handle hazardous materials.
Maine’s D.C. delegation raises doubts about fed response to hazardous materials rail shipments
Members of Maine’s congressional delegation are pushing regulators to strengthen planning, response and mitigation requirements for railroads transporting hazardous materials.
New US rail safety rules will not apply to all trains carrying explosive crude oil
Just as the state has revealed that crude oil shipments by rail have resumed along the state’s rail lines, Maine state emergency officials say new federal rules about shipping hazardous materials such as crude by rail don’t go far enough.
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