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The Maine Monitor brings you free-to-read original investigative and in-depth reporting each week on our website and email newsletters. In addition to highlighting our original stories, in Maine's Daily Digest we share a curated snapshot of the day's significant news to keep you in touch with what's happening today in Maine. While The Maine Monitor does not place its content behind paywalls, some newsrooms we link to in this newsletter may. We encourage you to consider supporting these local Maine newsrooms.

Monday's storm brings triple threat of flooding, wind, and ice to Maine | WMTW

Maine's outgoing hospital lobbyist says it is impossible to solve problem of rising health care costs | The Maine Monitor

How COVID-19 prepared Nirav Shah for the Maine governor's race | Portland Press Herald

High gas prices impact Maine rideshare drivers and their customers | WMTW

GOP urges Mills veto as Augusta Democrats review bills raising taxes on wealthy | WGME

Oxford County Regional Airport hires firm to explore longer runway for larger aircraft | The Maine Monitor

Winthrop, Monmouth, consider merging police departments | Kennebec Journal

The Maine Monitor's journalism was celebrated this weekend at the New England Newspaper and Press Association's annual spring convention, with six reporting projects recognized at the Saturday awards ceremony.

Monitor Local editor Judith Meyer was honored at the convention by the Academy of New England Journalists with its Yankee Quill Award for her "extraordinary, decades-long commitment to excellence in reporting, newsroom leadership, and unwavering defense of the First Amendment."

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