The governor’s communications director says the pledge doesn’t address the law enforcement aspect of the drug crisis and calls for expanding access to naloxone, which the governor opposes.

Three days after being warned that a blue ribbon panel’s meeting had to be open to the public, the governor’s staff changed the location and description, a court filing says.

Cynthia Montgomery, now a judge, told the governor he could delay the vetoes, records show, but 65 bills then became law over his objections.

Ralph Stevens, a retired mechanic who says ethanol emissions may have caused the state’s opioid crisis, and a legislator persuade Paul LePage to order a study of the additive.