by Rose Lundy | April 4, 2021
Demand for food assistance this winter remained high during the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers say federal programs prevented hunger from increasing even more. The economic fallout from the pandemic, leading to hunger, continues to disproportionately hit the most...
by Samantha Hogan, Jordan Wolman and Rose Lundy | March 28, 2021
Republicans are gearing up to challenge Gov. Janet Mills’ emergency powers this week in a battle that some experts and former governors from both parties say is largely political. The State and Local Government Committee is scheduled on Monday to consider more...
by Rose Lundy | December 20, 2020
As COVID-19 cases continue surging in Maine and the first vaccination doses offer some hope, Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke to health reporter Rose Lundy to reflect on the state’s pandemic response, and outline...
by Rose Lundy | November 22, 2020
As Maine’s COVID-19 cases continue to surge, the state’s top coronavirus official asked Mainers on Friday to change their mindset about the coronavirus in order to “change the trajectory” of the outbreaks. In the past week, from Nov. 14-20, the Maine Center for...
by The Maine Monitor | November 8, 2020
The first Mainer suspected of contracting COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, returned from a trip to Italy on March 6 with symptoms of a cold. By then, more than 100,000 people had been infected by the coronavirus worldwide, COVID-19 had claimed...