by Katie Brown | March 21, 2021
Maine regulators are considering a proposal to continue slowing the spread of the invasive emerald ash borer parasite that is killing the state’s ash trees. The new rules would expand the areas where Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, or...
by Rose Lundy | March 7, 2021
In February 2020, Margaret Downing read an article that terrified her. It predicted that a novel coronavirus spreading around the world would overwhelm U.S. healthcare systems, particularly those in small communities like her town of Yarmouth. “It was very obvious to...
by Rose Lundy | March 7, 2021
Kayla Duvall knew she had to get out of her marriage. If she didn’t answer her husband’s repeated phone calls, he grew angry. He accused her of lying or cheating if she turned off the tracking app on her phone. Once, Duvall said, she left their 9-year-old...
by Gordon L. Weil | March 7, 2021
Behind almost every government action lurks a single question: How do we pay for it? The answer seems easy: by taxes or debt. But taxes must pay off the debt, making the real question not “how” but “when” we ante up. At the federal level, the answer is often “later.”...
by Rose Lundy | February 7, 2021
As Maine moves into Phase 1B of its COVID-19 vaccination rollout, federal dose allocations are becoming more stable, and mass vaccination sites in Bangor and Scarborough this week began immunizing hundreds of Mainers. About 9.7 percent of the state’s population...
