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 | 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 | 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...
by Rose Lundy | January 10, 2021
More people in Maine now have been vaccinated for COVID-19 than have had the virus. About 46,600 Mainers were vaccinated as of Friday, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That represents nearly 3.5 percent of the state’s population. At...
by Rose Lundy | December 20, 2020
A COVID-19 outbreak at a Deer Isle nursing home in late November prompted nine employees — a tenth of its workers — to immediately take a leave of absence. Within two weeks 31 other employees were infected, cutting the available staff nearly in half. The remaining...
