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Financial help available for most CoverME.gov plan enrollees
Mainers shopping for health insurance during the open enrollment period for CoverME.gov may experience sticker shock from high monthly premiums but health care advocates said financial help is still available. The Maine Bureau of Insurance has approved an average premium rate…
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Jackson vows to fight for universal school meals as Collins declines to back federal legislation
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson is pledging to fight for universal free school meals nationwide, a policy he helped enact in Maine but that Republican Sen. Susan Collins has repeatedly declined to support at the federal level, despite promising more than two…
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Strimling: Who I expect to win on Election Day
A quick request about this missive, my annual predictions column. If you don’t like who I predict, don’t blame the messenger. Use it as motivation to vote on Tuesday and bring five like-minded people with you to prove me wrong. There are a couple on here where I hope to be wrong…
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Where Maine’s Senate and CD2 candidates stand on rural maternity care
As rural birthing units close across Maine, the Maine Beacon asked Maine’s Senate and 2nd District candidates about their plan to protect rural maternity care. Troy Jackson and Matt Dunlap answered. Sen. Susan Collins, who voted against the 2025 Medicaid cuts but provided a…
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Midcoast mothers, family physicians fight MaineHealth’s birthing unit closure
Leah Hurwitz was talking with a woman she’d just met at a sauna in Lincoln County when the conversation turned to Hurwitz’s daughter. “Oh my god, your daughter’s Veda?” the woman asked. She had been the respiratory specialist on duty at MaineHealth Lincoln Hospital the night…
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Podcast: Why voting ‘No’ on Question 1 in Lewiston will save lives
As Lewiston voters prepare to decide Question 1 — a ballot measure that would restrict syringe service programs — public health experts and community advocates are urging residents to consider the potentially devastating consequences for people struggling with substance use…
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Strimling: All around Maine, mobile home rent control is on the ballot
When voters around Maine cast their ballots over the next week, they’ll be voting on a lot of local initiatives. As a longtime tenant rights guy, I’m really happy to say that a record six municipalities in Maine are voting to enact rent control for mobile home parks. All part of…
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Maine taxpayers set to spend $823 million on mass deportations, new analysis finds
Maine taxpayers are expected to contribute more than $823 million toward Pres. Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, money that could instead provide Medicaid coverage for nearly 32,000 Mainers, health care for more than 16,000 veterans or salaries for more than 3,100 public…
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Maine Wire’s voter harassment and intimidation must be immediately investigated. And it must be stopped.
Recently, we’ve been receiving reports from people in Lewiston that the Maine Wire has been targeting citizens of color attempting to peacefully cast their ballots. This is part of a broader pattern of harassment, particularly of the Somali community in Lewiston, that has now…
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Paid Family and Medical Leave: A helpful guide on how to apply for benefits
Author’s note: I believe that information about public programs should be easily accessible and shareable to as many people as possible. The creation of this blog will hopefully serve as a resource that Maine workers can reference before and during their application for PFML…
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Podcast: Matt Dunlap on taking on LePage and standing up to Trump
With Election Day approaching, Democrat Matt Dunlap is making his case for a different direction for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District as he takes on former Republican Gov. Paul LePage. This week on the podcast, Dunlap shares his plans to make healthcare and housing more…
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ICE raids could cost Maine billions in lost economic output
Federal immigration enforcement surged in Maine this year, and a new report showed the removal of immigrant workers could cost the state up to $3 billion in annual economic output.The report highlighted the contributions of more than 30,000 foreign-born workers in the state,…
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Lewiston to vote on mobile home park rent protections as residents organize across Maine
The Lewiston City Council will vote Tuesday on a proposed ordinance to limit mobile home park lot rent increases, part of a growing effort by residents across Maine to protect their homes from rising rents and corporate ownership. The ordinance would cap annual lot rent…
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Public comment period on federal permit for proposed Eastport data center ends Monday
EASTPORT — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s deadline is Monday, Oct. 19, for comments and motions to intervene on a 48-month preliminary permit application for DeepGreen Western Passage SPV, a proposed subsea artificial intelligence data center in Eastport’s coastal…
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Collins struggles to cite consequential vote against Trump in final debate with Jackson
Sen. Susan Collins struggled to name a time when her opposition to Pres. Donald Trump had changed the outcome of a vote during Thursday night’s fourth and final debate with Democrat Troy Jackson, who argued that the Republican senator’s claims of independence haven’t translated…
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Faith leaders rally in Lewiston to defend voting rights ahead of November election
Faith leaders, community organizers and elected officials gathered in Lewiston Wednesday to defend voting rights and push back against voter intimidation as part of a nationwide bus tour encouraging Americans to participate in the November election. “The vote is sacred, and…
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Strimling: Investigating the corruption machine
Amidst all the important issues being debated this election cycle in Maine’s U.S. Senate and Congressional races — affordability, abortion, the oligarchy, Iran, tariffs, taxing the rich — the one that may matter the most is missing. Corruption. No, not Sen. Susan Collins’ false…
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Jackson: Collins is powerful during election time but weak when Mainers need her
Three months after federal immigration agents fatally shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Democrat Troy Jackson criticized Sen. Susan Collins for supporting billions in immigration enforcement funding during Tuesday night’s third U.S. Senate debate. “This agency is…
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‘Will I be next?’: Maine immigrants traumatized by latest ICE shooting
Following last week’s ICE shooting of Oscar Belgal, a young father in New York City, immigrants in Maine said they are altering their everyday activities to avoid becoming the next target.The shooting occurred on a crowded street filled with parents picking up their children…
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ICE contractors reward Susan Collins’ loyalty with campaign donations
Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the three-month anniversary of the ICE killing of 25-year old delivery driver Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, and his murderer still has not been brought to justice. In U.S. Senate debates last week, Sen. Susan Collins was forced to defend her…