Housing reformers and home-rule defenders struggled to find middle ground on Maine’s affordability crisis.
2022
Posted inMaine, News
Busiest stretch of highway in Maine shutting down to traffic next month
I-295 between Falmouth and Portland will close for 64 hours while crews install a new bridge over Veranda Street in Portland.
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Posted inMaine, Politics, Uncategorized
Lawmakers advance bill to give mobile sports betting licenses to Maine tribes
A last-minute amendment would allow harness racing tracks in Bangor and Cumberland and the Oxford Casino to offer in-person sports betting.
Posted inNation & World
Kentucky Senate passes bill banning abortions after 15 weeks
The measure is modeled after a Mississippi law under review by the Supreme Court.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Court orders Jussie Smollett released from jail pending appeal of 150-day sentence
The ruling comes two days after the actor’s attorneys said his time in custody could put his mental and physical health at risk.
Posted inNation & World
Residents whose homes were built on toxic landfill awarded $75 million
Dozens of mostly Black families still live in the area, which was named a federal Superfund cleanup site in 1994.
Posted inNation & World
Florida massacre victims’ families to get millions for FBI’s inaction
Nikolas Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder.
Posted inNation & World
Powerful quake off north Japan kills 2, injures dozens
More than 2.2 million homes are plunged into darkness.
Posted inNation & World
Affidavit details shooting of 3 people at Kansas school
Jaylon Desean Elmore, 18, who fired a ‘ghost gun’ remains hospitalized and is charged with attempted capital murder.
Posted inSports
NBA roundup: Dinwiddie hits 3 at buzzer as Mavericks beat Nets, 113-111
Spencer Dinwiddie scores 22 points, 15 in the fourth quarter for Dallas.