City Manager Jon Jennings will convene a task force to address issues such as access, zoning, transportation, berthing, ordinance enforcement and investment in the city’s piers.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Portland council rebukes Trump plan to limit citizenship for immigrants
Councilors oppose the plan to restrict access to citizenship for immigrants who use various public assistance programs.
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Housing developers among six bidders for Mercy Hospital site
The hospital, which is selling its State Street building, may announce a finalist in January.
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Portland’s support for non-citizens leads city to forgo $68,000 federal grant for police
Officials turn down funds that the police department typically uses for training and technology.
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Portland drops Barron Center site as possible location for new shelter
The decision follows months of opposition by residents of the Nason’s Corner neighborhood. A council committee then endorses a plan to pursue a 150-bed facility elsewhere in Portland.
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Portland police make arrest in Rite Aid robbery
Alexander Angelini, 18, of Barrington, Rhode Island, was apprehended about 4:30 p.m. Monday, several hours after the West End pharmacy was robbed.
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Portland’s plan to track energy usage stalls over privacy concerns
CMP says regulators must change the rules for it to let large property owners access their tenants’ electricity data, but is ‘thrilled’ with the city’s plan. Others say the company isn’t acting like it.
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Portland’s effort to ease traffic is helping Forest Avenue turn a corner
Some drivers who frequent a stretch notorious for jammed intersections say changes like advanced sensors are working.
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Activists hang banners calling for safe injection site in Maine’s largest city
Portland OPS is calling on city officials to open a facility where people can inject drugs under medical supervision, which they say reduces overdose deaths.
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Mother of Noyes Street fire victim petitions Portland to create memorial
Lisa LeConte Mazziotti wants the city to build a memorial to the six young adults – including her daughter Nicole Finlay – who died in the 2014 blaze.