The people of Maine deserve to know what Gov. Janet Mills tried to do to select members of the press, and how willing established outlets were to give this whole story a good leaving alone.

A soul-crushing sight met PETA fieldworkers one frigid February day: Minnie, a black pit bull who had spent her short, miserable life chained outside, was dead. Her bone-thin body was still tethered to a tree when they found her. Five other dogs on the property were chained, penned or both, like prisoners, but they were […]