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There’s federal money to shield communities from disasters. Why isn’t Maine getting more of it?
Tue, 11/28/2023 - 4:45pm

When Professor Tora Johnson and her University of Maine at Machias team were preparing an application for a federal grant to help fund a seawall and berms to protect low-lying downtown Machias from floods, it seemed they had a project that fit perfectly with what the Federal Emergency Management Agency funders wanted. The community, which straddles the Machias River just before it widens into the mouth of Machias Bay, is the county seat and a service center for the 32,000 residents of far-flung...
MaineCare dental patients face long waits, drives for care
Tue, 11/21/2023 - 9:00am

The problem with Sara Armas’ teeth began when she was a child. The academic and artist, who is autistic, struggled to take care of her teeth when she was young. She always hated the sensations and sounds of going to the dentist. You cannot tell just from looking at her smile, but many of her back teeth are pockmarked with filled cavities and crowns. Armas was advised when she was young that most of the fillings would only last 30 years. At age 41, she said she takes better care of her teeth –...
$1.6 million in tax revenue on the line for Wiscasset in dispute over nuclear waste facility
Mon, 11/20/2023 - 9:00am

The town of Wiscasset looks set to go to court over a Maine Department of Environmental Protection decision to give tax breaks to a facility that stores spent nuclear fuel from the decommissioned Maine Yankee power plant. The exemption, which has been in place for decades, is intended to incentivize companies to install “pollution-control equipment,” but threatens to cost Wiscasset $1.6 million in annual revenue, almost one-fifth of its budget. This story was originally published by...
From 2020 to 2022, Woodlands of Rockland had highest number of abuse incidents reported by a Level IV facility
Maine rarely sanctions residential care facilities even after severe abuse or neglect incidents
Sun, 11/12/2023 - 10:15pm

One lunchtime in 2021, a longtime resident at Woodlands Memory Care of Rockland started throwing up. His fingernails turned purple, and his skin became red all over. He was lethargic and fidgety, and his breathing grew shallow, according to the facility’s daily care notes. The resident was well known at this residential care facility in Maine’s Midcoast region. Former facility employees told The Maine Monitor and ProPublica that he was a nationally renowned concert pianist who continued to play...
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A (shorter) guide to Question 3
Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:15am

In my (admittedly short) career as a journalist, I have never had as many conversations about a single topic as I have on Question 3 , the referendum on this year’s ballot asking Mainers whether they want to replace Maine’s two investor-owned utilities with Pine Tree Power, a nonprofit that would consist of an elected and appointed board, support staff, and a private third-party company managing daily operations of the grid. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor...
A Q&A on Question 3, the Pine Tree Power referendum
Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:00am

Question 3 proposes replacing Maine’s two investor-owned utility companies — Central Maine Power and Versant Power — with a new company called Pine Tree Power. Pine Tree Power would be run by a 13-member board, staff to support them, and a private third-party operator they would hire to manage the day-to-day operations of the grid.
Mills ready to hear proposals to further gun safety
Sun, 11/05/2023 - 10:15pm

The deadly shooting in Lewiston turned attention to the gun policy positions of Gov. Janet Mills, who has opposed bans on assault-style rifles but backed other gun safety measures in a state with a deep hunting and gun rights culture. Mills’ views will heavily influence the viability of any gun control bills as safety activists and legislators consider reform before the legislature reconvenes in January. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor ...
Lawmakers eye tighter oversight on guardianships
Tue, 10/31/2023 - 10:30am

State lawmakers are considering more intensive oversight and frequent reviews of guardianships after eight adults in state care died in unexplained ways. Members of the Health and Human Services Committee questioned state officials with the attorney general’s office, medical examiner’s, disability services and a probate judge about changes needed in the state’s guardianship system during a 3 ½ hour meeting in Augusta on Wednesday. This story was originally published by The Maine...
Relief expected for Maine utility customers
Sun, 10/29/2023 - 10:30pm

After enduring record-high electricity supply rates this year, most Maine households will start seeing some welcome relief in January, based on recent declines in other New England states and projections by Maine energy experts. Some New Hampshire utility customers already have seen supply rates drop by nearly 40% over last year. They’ve slid a similar amount in Massachusetts . In Maine, experts are anticipating a drop in the 20-30% range, which would cut rates that now stand at roughly 16...
Maine’s vast rural expanse complicates the search for Lewiston shooting suspect
Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:30pm

It takes about 13 minutes to drive from Schemengees Bar and Grille in Lewiston to the Papermill Trail/Miller Park boat launch in Lisbon. The fastest way is along Route 196, leaving the area locals call Lincoln Street Flats, cutting southeast across the city, past businesses, homes and places of worship and into neighboring Lisbon where the road crosses the Androscoggin River. The tree-lined streets look quintessentially New England this time of year with the leaves’ red-orange hues. This...
Lewiston, Maine: A city, and a state, in shock
Fri, 10/27/2023 - 7:15pm

With residents under a shelter-in-place order, the streets of Lewiston were mostly empty for much of Thursday, but for a heavy media presence and scores of local, state and federal officials gathered at City Hall in the morning. In the wake of shootings that left at least 18 dead in Maine’s second largest city, local residents and officials expressed shock that the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings had come to their community and grappled to make sense of the past day’s events. This story...
Shortage of pharmacists leaving customers in peril
Mon, 10/23/2023 - 8:45am

With pharmacists around the country walking off the job or threatening to do so, Maine pharmacies have experienced sudden closures, infrequent hours and frustration from customers who say they’re unreliable. Over the past several weeks, employees at Walgreens and CVS, the nation’s two largest pharmacy chains, staged walkouts or did not show up for work to protest what organizers told The Washington Post are conditions that threaten the safety of employees and patients. This story was...
What to know about Maine’s electrical utilities ahead of vote on ballot initiative
Thu, 10/19/2023 - 6:00pm

As voters decide whether to take over their transmission and distribution utility companies, we’re providing Mainers with some history of the power system in the region — and clearing up some confusion.
Maine’s new PFAS law draws objections from businesses around the world
Wed, 10/18/2023 - 9:15pm

The devil is in the details, as they say, and when it comes to PFAS regulation, there are a lot of details. That was the message from Maine Department of Environmental Protection staff when they updated lawmakers earlier this month on their efforts to create rules around the first-in-the-nation PFAS reporting law . The law, passed in 2021 , requires manufacturers of products with intentionally added PFAS to report to the DEP beginning in 2025, and eventually bans certain items from being sold...
Maine’s auto ‘Right to Repair’ ballot initiative part of national movement
Wed, 10/18/2023 - 9:30am

A citizen initiative on Maine’s November ballot brings the state into a national “right to repair” movement that backers say helps give consumers more control over how and who can fix the products they buy. Proponents say “right to repair” legislation levels the playing field and allows buyers more options in how they fix their products by allowing consumers the same ability to maintain their products as the manufacturers that make them. This story was originally published by The...
Knox, Waldo, Lincoln, Sagadahoc office would open FY2025
Commission endorses statewide public defender network for Maine
Sun, 10/15/2023 - 1:45pm

An $8.8 million proposal that would create a statewide network of public defender offices received initial support from leaders in charge of Maine’s indigent defense system on Wednesday. Officials at the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, or MCILS, laid out a plan to seek money in the state’s supplemental budget and next biennium budget to hire more than three dozen public defenders. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a...
Maine’s indigent defense crisis deepens
Wed, 10/11/2023 - 10:30am

Advocates for poor criminal defendants in Maine say court clerks are appointing ineligible lawyers to handle cases in an attempt to meet the constitutional requirement that people accused of crimes get representation. The complaints follow a petition submitted to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Sept. 20 by two criminal defense lawyers — Rob Ruffner of Portland and Rory McNamara of York — on behalf of a woman who sat in jail for months without being assigned an attorney despite being...
QUESTION 8 ON STATE REFERENDUM BALLOT
Maine’s constitution says people in guardianships with mental illness cannot vote. Voters can change that in November.
Mon, 10/09/2023 - 10:00am

Nine words in the Maine constitution were found to be unconstitutional 22 years ago, yet remain in the state’s guiding document. Voters will decide in November if they should be removed. Every Maine resident aged 18 and over who is also a U.S. citizen can vote, “excepting persons under guardianship for reasons of mental illness,” according to the state constitution. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a nonprofit civic news organization....
question 6 on state referendum ballot
Long-excluded section of Maine constitution may make a comeback
Wed, 10/04/2023 - 4:00pm

Hidden beneath the murky phrasing of Question 6 on the Nov. 7 ballot is an amendment that would reintroduce language, long out of print from Maine’s constitution, honoring the state’s historical obligations to tribal nations. Section 5, Article X of the constitution was taken out of circulation by a statewide vote in 1875 and hasn’t appeared in copies since 1876. The section has remained in “full force” legally, however, and is available on the state legislature’s website , though omitted...
Fifty years ago, the energy crisis officially began. And it hasn’t ended.
Fri, 09/29/2023 - 10:30am

It was an audacious plan. Build a major marine terminal in Casco Bay for supertankers to unload crude oil into a pipeline running underground from Portland to a 250,000 gallon-a-day oil refinery in Sanford, 36 miles away. Petroleum products from the $650 million project would then be piped to southern New England. The idea may sound unbelievable in 2023. But the need for an oil refinery in Maine seemed obvious to many in 1973, and was reinforced 50 years ago in October when the state received a...
A police chief took to Facebook to explain what happens to the arrests his officers are making
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 12:30pm

Disappointed by the judicial outcomes of his department’s criminal cases, Rumford Police Chief Tony Milligan turned to social media last month to provide a window into the frustrations he and his officers faced. Cases were getting dismissed, and questions from residents mounted. They asked why Milligan’s department wasn’t doing more to stymie increases in crime and the burgeoning effects of the opioid epidemic. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor ...
GOP lawmaker calls for scrutiny of DHHS after disclosure of eight public guardianship deaths
Wed, 09/27/2023 - 3:30pm

A Republican state lawmaker said the state’s top social services agency “deserves all the scrutiny we can muster” in light of a Maine Monitor investigation that found eight people in public guardianship died under unusual circumstances. In the Republican party’s weekly radio address , state Sen. Stacey Guerin on Friday criticized the Department of Health and Human Services for not alerting lawmakers about the deaths, despite a law requiring notification. This story was originally published...
Eight deaths warrant further scrutiny from legislature, state lawmakers say
Wed, 09/20/2023 - 12:00pm

The tragic deaths of eight incapacitated adults under public guardianship detailed in a recent Maine Monitor investigation drew the attention of state lawmakers, who say the deaths should be investigated to “the fullest extent possible” and that legislators should consider a possible breakup of the Department of Health and Human Services. The Maine Monitor revealed that state medical examiners labeled the ways seven adults under public guardianship died in the past three years as “undetermined...
Eight deaths raise questions about oversight of Maine’s public guardianships
Sat, 09/16/2023 - 11:00am

Eight incapacitated people in the state’s care died during the past three years and authorities don’t know exactly how. The adults, all under public guardianship, died of what medical examiners described as “undetermined” circumstances, while noting that over-medication was the cause of several of those deaths. Among them is a woman whose death was deemed a “homicide” by medical examiners. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a nonprofit...
Civil rights board seeks Department of Justice investigation of Maine indigent defense services
Fri, 09/15/2023 - 3:30pm

Advisors on civil rights in Maine are recommending the U.S. Department of Justice investigate how the state provides lawyers to poor defendants and are urging the state Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills to “provide adequate funding” for indigent defense services. Maine’s advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Thursday voted in favor of a report that urges the federal commission and state lawmakers to work toward a more equitable indigent defense system and funds both public...
Justice rejects settlement to overhaul indigent defense in Maine
Thu, 09/14/2023 - 6:30pm

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy on Wednesday rejected a proposed settlement in a lawsuit over indigent legal services, saying the agreement could “close the courthouse doors” for poor defendants and leave them little recourse if the state failed to provide lawyers. Criminal defendants, who are not able to afford to hire their own lawyer, would be without a path to sue the state for a systemic failure to meet their Sixth Amendment right to an attorney, if she approved the settlement and...
Maine Medical Association says American healthcare system needs an overhaul
Wed, 09/13/2023 - 10:00am

Members of the Maine Medical Association over the weekend strongly endorsed a policy statement calling for universal healthcare insurance coverage, becoming only the fifth state medical association to do so, according to advocacy groups. “I don’t think it’s credible for physicians to stand on the sidelines of this issue of universal access to care … while millions of patients and thousands in Maine don’t have ongoing primary care, access to specialist care, access to hospital care treatment for...
From 25 years ago, lessons for Maine as it begins to distribute opioid settlement money
Tue, 09/12/2023 - 9:30am

As Maine communities begin to spend what will amount to more than $235 million in opioid settlement money, parallels — and lessons — emerge from a similar 25-year-old landmark agreement with tobacco companies. In 1998, Maine and 45 other states’ attorneys general settled lawsuits with four tobacco companies in which the states sought to recover billions in healthcare-related costs due to tobacco use. The settlement — to this day, the largest in U.S. history — established annual payments in...
Forestry companies granted state funds despite environmental violations
Mon, 09/04/2023 - 9:15pm

Two forestry companies that were announced as recipients for hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant money last December were issued environmental violations at their Maine facilities over the past several years. One of the companies, ND Paper Inc., had a $101,400 state penalty finalized in late August for chemical spills at its Old Town mill in 2020 and 2022. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a nonprofit civic news organization...
As opioid settlement funds reach Maine, opinions arise over how best to use them
Sat, 09/02/2023 - 10:30am

As money from national settlements with companies accused of fueling the opioid epidemic has begun flowing into Maine, a debate has emerged between advocates, local and state governments, and on-the-ground providers over spending priorities for addressing the crisis. A nationwide coalition of more than 130 public health groups, legal aid organizations and service providers, including three from Maine, issued a “roadmap” of priorities for opioid settlement spending in August. Among their...
Off the coast of Maine, puffins are rebounding and feasting on a new snack
Thu, 08/31/2023 - 4:00pm

The 50th anniversary of Project Puffin has just ended, with researchers fully realizing how their quest has morphed from saving one bird to playing a part in saving the planet. Its purpose in 1973 was simply to return puffins to islands off the coast of Maine, where hunters had killed them off by the late 1800s. Led by Steve Kress, then an Audubon camp bird instructor in his late 20s, the project moved puffin chicks here from Newfoundland. This story was originally published by The...
Settlement reached by Maine and ACLU to overhaul indigent legal services
Tue, 08/29/2023 - 11:30pm

A proposed settlement agreement that promises to "dramatically reshape" the state’s delivery of indigent-defense services has been reached between state officials and the ACLU of Maine. The proposal would overhaul nearly every aspect of the agency that oversees indigent defense in Maine and enhance oversight of its operations and the lawyers who serve poor clients during the next few years. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a nonprofit...
Twenty-two challenges to school library books have been filed in Maine since January 2022. Just one book has been removed.
Sun, 08/27/2023 - 8:45pm

On a Monday in September 2022, a semi-retired Livermore Falls resident requested the removal of a graphic novel from the shelves of the local school library. It was the seventh official challenge the area’s school board received that month. The challenger, Arin Quintel, had no children in the school district, though she said she previously volunteered as a foster grandparent in the local elementary school. She eventually left the volunteer program, concerned by the direction she felt the...
Maine Recovery Council hasn’t spent any of the millions available from opioid settlements
Wed, 08/16/2023 - 9:15am

In a brightly lit conference room on the first floor of the Department of Health and Human Services in Augusta on Thursday, the Maine Recovery Council met for the eighth time in as many months and, perhaps for the first time, discussed how it should spend nearly $118 million in settlement funds from companies accused of fueling the opioid epidemic. The 15-member council is charged with overseeing distribution of half of Maine’s $235 million share in settlement funds. With bankruptcy proceedings...
Judge warns of “constitutional crisis” if shortage of defense lawyers not fixed soon
Sun, 08/06/2023 - 1:00pm

Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy on Wednesday said the state’s system of providing defense lawyers to indigent clients has "deteriorated significantly," and she instructed lawyers for the state and ACLU to settle or prepare to litigate whether the system should be overhauled. "There is widespread concern among those of us who work in criminal court rooms that things have gotten markedly worse than they were six months ago, as far as stability and capacity," said Murphy, who usually hears...
Guardianships are a decision that can last a lifetime
Sat, 08/05/2023 - 5:00pm

She didn’t drive. She couldn’t schedule appointments on her own. She wouldn’t be able to hold a job and was dependent on others to get through the day. The petition filed in the Hancock County Probate Court by Julie Thielen-Montgomery in 2011 painted a helpless picture of her daughter, Cindy Thielen. Thielen-Montgomery was asking the court to make her the guardian of her 19-year-old daughter, who was diagnosed with autism at 13. That meant the mother would have complete control of her daughter’...
Road to a popular Maine hiking spot falls into a jurisdictional limbo
Wed, 08/02/2023 - 12:00pm

After a torrent of late-June rain, the road to the popular Tumbledown Mountain hiking destination has taken on the rough look of a mountain trail — not a paved road meant for cars and trucks. Water washed out the pavement on the road’s edges and exposed chunks of loose rock, another portion in the road’s center buckled and cracked under the water’s pressure, and land around its culverts slipped into the brook they feed. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor...
State officials cautiously optimistic over latest drug overdose data
Tue, 08/01/2023 - 10:00am

As the number of Mainers dying from drug overdoses appeared to be going down in the first half of the year, recovery experts and state officials are increasingly looking to harm reduction strategies to aid efforts aimed at overdose prevention and treatment availability. While “cautiously optimistic” that drug deaths are down this year — a decrease of about 6% for the first six months compared with the same period last year — there is still much to be done, said Gordon Smith, Gov. Janet Mills’...
Maine physician prescribed discredited COVID-19 treatments, aimed to make ‘spectacle’ of investigation
Mon, 07/31/2023 - 4:45pm

After they struggled with COVID-19 symptoms for two weeks, Joel Mahoney drove his parents to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, where his mother, Nancy Mahoney, was admitted on Dec. 19, 2021 for complaints of labored breathing, fatigue and a cough. She was treated for COVID pneumonia that required supplemental oxygen. She told the hospitalist treating her that a doctor, Ellsworth internist Meryl Nass, had diagnosed her with COVID “over the phone” earlier that month and prescribed a five-day...
State planners grappling with short-term rentals consider new regulations
Mon, 07/24/2023 - 6:00pm

Maine’s largest land use authority wrapped up a series of summer meetings Wednesday as it considers how to regulate short-term rentals across its over 10.4 million-acre expanse for the first time. Staff members for the Land Use Planning Commission entered a string of community meetings in June with rule recommendations that would fall well short of more stringent regulations passed elsewhere in the state. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor ...
Replacing your home heating oil: Part two of a starter guide
Wed, 07/19/2023 - 6:30pm

Fuel oil is one of the most expensive, planet-warming and unpredictably priced ways to heat a home — yet three of every five Mainers use it, more than any other state. Moving Maine off oil could have big benefits, as was reported in our series Hooked on Heating Oil . But where do you start if you want to make that change in your home? You should be thinking about that now — yes, in these hot summer months — to prepare for the cold we all know is coming. This story was originally published...
Maine homeschooling numbers remain high following pandemic spike
Sat, 07/15/2023 - 10:00am

In the fall of 2016, Jessica Coakley became increasingly concerned that her son, Braden, was falling behind in school. The fourth grader had an Individualized Education Program, requiring certain services for students like him with different learning needs. But his mother worried it was not enough. “I was feeling like the teachers and the principals and the people weren't listening to me,” said Coakley, who lives in Bradley, just north of Bangor. “I would go to these IEP meetings and I'd be...
State shores up finances of emergency medical service providers
Wed, 07/12/2023 - 8:30am

As part of a larger budget deal, state legislators have approved $31 million in funding that will provide breathing room for the roughly 275 emergency medical services (EMS) statewide, some on the verge of collapse. The aid will be distributed in two batches, 40% possibly by October for emergency relief and 60% thereafter in the form of grants. Renée Gray, the newly appointed Washington County manager and also the ambulance chief for Moosabec Ambulance Service in Jonesport-Beals, said the...
Maine passes bill to curb recording of attorney-client phone calls in jails
Thu, 07/06/2023 - 10:00pm

State lawmakers have passed legislation that aims to crack down on jails that record attorney-client phone calls by disqualifying investigators who listen to private jail phone calls and directing prosecutors to adopt statewide procedures to ensure confidentiality by January 2024. Following an investigation by The Maine Monitor in 2022 that revealed six county jails routinely recorded private attorney-client phone calls, then shared dozens of those recordings with police or prosecutors,...
Federal officials find nearly three dozen violations at Thomaston cement company
Sun, 07/02/2023 - 4:00pm

Federal mine safety officials found 33 violations at the Dragon Products cement company in Thomaston during an inspection in May, the latest in a string of violations that have led to tens of thousands of dollars in fines over the past several years, federal records show. The Mine Safety and Health Administration conducted what is known as an “impact inspection" at the Thomaston plant and issued the 33 citations, including ten for “significant and substantial" violations, the federal records...
Legislation aims to curb violence against health care workers in emergency settings
Wed, 06/28/2023 - 6:00pm

A bill that would expand the scope of Maine’s criminal code for assaults against an emergency care provider passed easily in both chambers last week but advocates say there is still more to be done to protect health care workers. Maine law currently states that a person who commits assault against an “emergency medical care provider” while the provider is administering emergency medical care is a Class C crime and carries a punishment of up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. This...
So you want to use less home heating oil: A starter guide
Fri, 06/23/2023 - 7:00pm

This guide will be periodically updated with new tips and incentives to help Mainers transition off home heating oil and onto lower-carbon, lower-cost technologies. This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor , a nonprofit civic news organization. To get regular coverage from the Monitor, sign up for a free Monitor newsletter here . Today, we're focusing on energy efficiency upgrades — ways to use less oil without totally...
Maine likely to amend its strict mining laws
Wed, 06/21/2023 - 7:00pm

Maine looks set to amend its mining laws to exempt some metals from the state's strict metallic mining regulations, provided developers can prove they won't pollute nearby watersheds or cause other environmental harms in the process. "I was incredibly hesitant to suggest any changes to the mining act," said Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Melanie Loyzim during the most recent work session on the bill that advanced to the House this week, LD 1363 . But, she continued, "it...
Maine will receive at least $235 million in settlement funds
City of Rockland and Knox, Lincoln, Waldo counties set to get millions from opioid crisis settlements
Mon, 06/19/2023 - 7:00pm

Maine stands to receive at least $235 million over the next nearly two decades as the result of national settlements with some of the companies accused of supercharging the opioid epidemic. The settlements end years of litigation filed by dozens of states and other plaintiffs against the companies, alleging they led a misleading, dangerous and ultimately deadly campaign for more than two decades to put pharmaceutical opioids into the medicine cabinets of people across the country. This...
Civil rights group may seek DOJ investigation of Maine public defense system
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 7:00pm

State advisors to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights plan to apply more pressure to Maine leaders to overhaul the state's indigent public defense system with a report that finds the system may disproportionately affect people in federally protected groups. People of color, people with disabilities and non-English speakers are more likely to need legal assistance from Maine's indigent defense system, and they also may be more likely to be affected by a lack of quality and capacity in the...

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