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Mark Swann, executive director of Preble Street, says some 1,200 Mainers, including seniors, veterans and people with disabilities, are at risk of losing their homes after the Trump administration announced it will cut funding for the Continuum of Care program. Read the story at the link below.
New federal policy threatens stable housing for hundreds of Mainers - Maine Beacon
Maine officials warn a new federal directive will increase homelessness in the state. The Trump administration is cutting funding for the Continuum of Care program, which helps move some of the most v...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Mark Swann, executive director of Preble Street, says some 1,200 Mainers, including seniors, veterans and people with disabilities, are at risk of losing their homes after the Trump administration announced it will cut funding for the Continuum of Care program. Read the story at the link below.
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Federal government releases nearly $40M in heating assistance for Mainers
Federal government releases nearly $40M in heating assistance for Mainers
Funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, had been delayed for weeks by the federal government shutdown.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Federal government releases nearly $40M in heating assistance for Mainers
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Maine secretary of state opposes using federal immigration database to determine voter eligibility
Maine secretary of state opposes using federal immigration database to determine voter eligibility
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joined Democratic officials from 11 other states in criticizing the Trump administration's proposed expansion of its use.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Maine secretary of state opposes using federal immigration database to determine voter eligibility
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Trump administration threatens to yank food stamps funding from Maine, other Democratic-led states mainemorningstar.com/2025/12/02/r...
Trump administration threatens to yank food stamps funding from Maine, other Democratic-led states • Maine Morning Star
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin next week to block nutrition assistance funding for states led by Democrats that have not provided data on fraud in the program, Secretary Brooke Rollins…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said Tuesday that "however you describe it, you’re talking about trying to deny hungry people food."
Trump administration says it will withhold SNAP from Democrat-led states if they don't provide data
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said Tuesday that "however you describe it, you’re talking about trying to deny hungry people food."
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December 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree said Tuesday that "however you describe it, you’re talking about trying to deny hungry people food."
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With Massachusetts toying with the idea of procuring offshore wind energy from Canada, officials in Maine say they are keeping an eye on opportunities across the border as local development has been stalled. mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/25/a...
Amid federal setbacks, Maine ‘closely tracking’ development of Canadian offshore wind • Maine Morning Star
With Massachusetts toying with the idea of procuring offshore wind energy from Canada, officials in Maine say they are keeping an eye on opportunities across the border as local development has been…
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July 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
With Massachusetts toying with the idea of procuring offshore wind energy from Canada, officials in Maine say they are keeping an eye on opportunities across the border as local development has been stalled. mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/25/a...
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Updated: Both chambers of the Maine Legislature cast initial votes on Tuesday in favor of a bill to restrict local authorities from carrying out federal immigration enforcement. mainemorningstar.com/2025/06/17/b...
By one vote, Maine House passes restrictions on federal immigration enforcement • Maine Morning Star
By one vote, the Maine House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday to restrict local authorities from carrying out federal immigration enforcement. The bill now heads to the Senate, which is…
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June 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Updated: Both chambers of the Maine Legislature cast initial votes on Tuesday in favor of a bill to restrict local authorities from carrying out federal immigration enforcement. mainemorningstar.com/2025/06/17/b...
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The ruling pauses the Trump administration's effort close the nation’s largest job training program for low-income young adults.
A court’s decision will continue limbo for Maine Job Corps centers
The ruling pauses the Trump administration's effort close the nation’s largest job training program for low-income young adults.
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June 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The ruling pauses the Trump administration's effort close the nation’s largest job training program for low-income young adults.
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The group announced their people’s veto effort in March after the Democratic-controlled Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills approved a two-year, $11.3 billion budget.
Maine Republicans fail to get enough signatures to overturn state budget
The group announced their people’s veto effort in March after the Democratic-controlled Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills approved a two-year, $11.3 billion budget.
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June 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The group announced their people’s veto effort in March after the Democratic-controlled Legislature and Gov. Janet Mills approved a two-year, $11.3 billion budget.
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In Senate speech, Angus King invokes Margaret Chase Smith’s ‘Declaration,’ warns of current ‘crisis’
In Senate speech, Angus King invokes Margaret Chase Smith’s ‘Declaration,’ warns of current ‘crisis’
Citing Smith's 1950 'Declaration of Conscience' address, King said the issue is not President Donald Trump's agenda, but his apparent attempts to centralize power, including by 'ignoring the Constitut...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In Senate speech, Angus King invokes Margaret Chase Smith’s ‘Declaration,’ warns of current ‘crisis’
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King said that President Trump is "attempting to govern like a monarch." The independent also accused many of his colleagues of deliberately ignoring what he sees as Trump's violations of the constitution.
Angus King invokes Margaret Chase Smith’s ‘Declaration' in Senate speech on Donald Trump
King also said that President Trump is "attempting to govern like a monarch." The independent also accused many of his colleagues of deliberately ignoring what he sees as Trump's violations of the con...
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April 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
King said that President Trump is "attempting to govern like a monarch." The independent also accused many of his colleagues of deliberately ignoring what he sees as Trump's violations of the constitution.
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Today's GDP numbers are a snapshot of how Trump's tariffs are affecting the economy. In Maine, his erratic implementation of import taxes is making it difficult for economic forecasters to predict revenues -- a critical piece of how state lawmakers draft the state budget.
Trump's haphazard tariff scheme clouds Maine revenue outlook
Predictions by the Revenue Forecasting Committee are a key tool used by state budget writers. But the panel says market volatility and tariff uncertainty are injecting a high degree of risk in its upc...
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April 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today's GDP numbers are a snapshot of how Trump's tariffs are affecting the economy. In Maine, his erratic implementation of import taxes is making it difficult for economic forecasters to predict revenues -- a critical piece of how state lawmakers draft the state budget.
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A bipartisan bill introduced during a public hearing Tuesday would formalize and increase collaboration between agencies involved in grid planning. mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/30/a...
Amid rapidly evolving energy goals, Maine lawmakers seek more coordinated grid planning • Maine Morning Star
The bipartisan bill would formalize and increase collaboration between agencies involved in grid planning.
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April 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A bipartisan bill introduced during a public hearing Tuesday would formalize and increase collaboration between agencies involved in grid planning. mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/30/a...
Sue voted to confirm RFK Jr. — who is now shamelessly helping Trump gut our public health infrastructure and push conspiracy theories. #ShameOnSue
“For the administration to abruptly cancel grants and slash federal funding with little or no justification clearly puts our nation’s leadership in biomedical research in jeopardy,” Collins said in an interview this week. “It must be reversed.”
Collins criticizes Trump administration over scientific research cuts
The Senate Appropriations Committee, which Collins chairs, is holding a hearing Wednesday morning with top scientists affected by the cuts, including a researcher from MDI Bio Lab in Maine
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May 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sue voted to confirm RFK Jr. — who is now shamelessly helping Trump gut our public health infrastructure and push conspiracy theories. #ShameOnSue
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"This president is engaged in the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history," U.S. Sen. Angus King writes.
Opinion: 75 years after Margaret Chase Smith, this is my ‘Declaration of Conscience’
"This president is engaged in the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."
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April 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"This president is engaged in the most direct assault on the Constitution in our history," U.S. Sen. Angus King writes.
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“The contract we make as a country with veterans is currently being broken," said U.S. Marine Court veteran Scott Surette, a postal worker who serves as president of Branch 122 of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 301. mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/30/s...
State and national labor leaders highlight outsized impact federal cuts have on veterans • Maine Morning Star
When Scott Surette left the U.S. Marine Corps after serving in the Gulf War, with tours in Iraq and Kuwait, he took a job at the U.S. Postal Service. Like millions of other veterans, he was drawn to…
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April 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“The contract we make as a country with veterans is currently being broken," said U.S. Marine Court veteran Scott Surette, a postal worker who serves as president of Branch 122 of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union Local 301. mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/30/s...
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has started a process to schedule drilling for offshore fossil fuel.
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Federal oil and gas leasing plan could include Maine coast
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has started a process to schedule drilling for offshore fossil fuel.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has started a process to schedule drilling for offshore fossil fuel.
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The company cited the exchange rate, transportation costs, and tariffs as the drivers of the decision.
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Canada-based Acadian Seaplants closed its Maine operations earlier this month
The company cited the exchange rate, transportation costs, and tariffs as the drivers of the decision.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The company cited the exchange rate, transportation costs, and tariffs as the drivers of the decision.
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A 2009 study from the Maine Geological Survey noted there was no potential for oil and gas accumulation in state waters and little potential further offshore.
Federal oil and gas leasing plan could include Maine coast
A 2009 study from the Maine Geological Survey noted there was no potential for oil and gas accumulation in state waters and little potential further offshore.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A 2009 study from the Maine Geological Survey noted there was no potential for oil and gas accumulation in state waters and little potential further offshore.
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Key manufacturing resource in Maine could lose all federal funding
Key manufacturing resource in Maine could lose all federal funding
The state's Manufacturing Extension Partnership is one of 10 nationwide that had its funding cut, then restored temporarily by the Trump administration.
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May 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Key manufacturing resource in Maine could lose all federal funding
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He believes the country is witnessing the “collapse of the constitutional structure.”
Angus King says Donald Trump’s actions are ‘dangerous for everybody’
The independent senator who caucuses with Democrats has used media appearances, podcasts and speeches in the past month to sound the alarm.
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May 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
He believes the country is witnessing the “collapse of the constitutional structure.”
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Acadian Seaplants President and CEO Jean Pierre DeVeaux said that tariffs will cost his business millions of dollars on an annual basis.
Canadian seaweed company has closed its Maine operations
Acadian Seaplants cited the exchange rate, transportation costs and tariffs.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Acadian Seaplants President and CEO Jean Pierre DeVeaux said that tariffs will cost his business millions of dollars on an annual basis.
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Maine lawmakers passed a landmark bill designed to increase home construction and ease the state’s worsening housing crisis. Now, almost one year after implementation, some worry the law hasn’t lived up to its potential.
Maine lawmakers still betting on accessory dwelling units to help end housing crisis
Following the passage of a landmark law in 2022, a bill seeks to further encourage the construction of small housing units also known as in-law suites.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Maine lawmakers passed a landmark bill designed to increase home construction and ease the state’s worsening housing crisis. Now, almost one year after implementation, some worry the law hasn’t lived up to its potential.
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"When families get support to address life’s challenges, it prevents crises and the need for more intensive and costly intervention from the state child welfare agency."
Opinion: If we want to keep kids safe, we need to invest in their families
"When families get support to address life’s challenges, it prevents crises and the need for more intensive and costly intervention from the state child welfare agency."
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May 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"When families get support to address life’s challenges, it prevents crises and the need for more intensive and costly intervention from the state child welfare agency."
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The resolution to to block the president's global tariffs failed after a 49-49 vote. It was the second time that U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King tried to curtail the president's use of emergency powers to enact tariffs without Congressional approval.
Susan Collins, Angus King back failed effort to check Trump's unilateral tariffs
The resolution to to block the president's global tariffs failed after a 49-49 vote. It was the second time that U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King tried to curtail the president's use of emergen...
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May 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The resolution to to block the president's global tariffs failed after a 49-49 vote. It was the second time that U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King tried to curtail the president's use of emergency powers to enact tariffs without Congressional approval.