by Zahir Janmohamed and Mia Warren | October 11, 2020
Editor’s Note: The Maine Monitor is pleased to share the podcast “A Better Life?,” as a media partner. This episode focuses on the immigrant experience of COVID-19 in Maine. The podcast is a product of a Feet in 2 Worlds, a project of the New School...
by Rose Lundy | August 9, 2020
During the past five months of the coronavirus pandemic, Mainers and other Americans have been inundated with numbers. Confirmed COVID-19 cases per capita. Death rates. Test positivity rates. Hospitalization rates. Available ICU beds. There is a staggering number of...
by Rose Lundy | August 9, 2020
A committee of Maine economic experts and industry representatives this month outlined a $1.1 billion plan to steady the state economy in July. The plan from the Governor’s Economic Recovery Committee includes 11 focus areas based on insights from hundreds of Mainers,...
by The Maine Monitor | August 9, 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...
by Gordon L. Weil | August 7, 2020
The war about reopening the economy is being fought about as fiercely as the war against COVID-19 itself. Maine is caught in this war between public health officials and open-economy advocates. The conflict has turned partisan. A unanimous Legislature gave Gov. Janet...
