‘People will freeze to death’ if heating aid doesn’t come soon

Maine is building homes faster, but they are emptier. Often-overlooked numbers show how fewer people are living together, inadvertently contributing to Maine’s housing crisis. Read this Maine Monitor story by Murray Carpenter.

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‘People will freeze to death’ in Maine if federal heating aid doesn’t come soon | Bangor Daily News

Supporters of universal health care seek to put the issue to Maine voters | Maine Public

Mills calls on Trump to tap emergency reserves to fund food stamps | Bangor Daily News

Maine Constitution requires state to provide SNAP, says Winthrop Democrat | Portland Press Herald

Tenants, landlords still frustrated as Portland works to improve rent control enforcement | Portland Press Herald

Maine Republicans disagree over whether voter ID referendum goes too far | Bangor Daily News

Planned cuts to federal housing program could make hundreds of Mainers homeless | Bangor Daily News

How AI is changing police work in Maine and why some are calling for more oversight | WGME

Maine housing crisis gets boost with expansion of accessory dwelling units | News Center Maine

UMaine to demolish its oldest building for parking. Students are pushing back. | Portland Press Herald

Maine network ends primary care after losing Medicaid due to Trump defunding Planned Parenthood | Associated Press

Maine farmer sees hope in breakthrough cholesterol drug for PFAS treatment | News Center Maine

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Monitor Local to fill news gap in downeast, western Maine towns

In response to feedback from participants in listening tour workshops held across Maine this year, the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, the nonprofit publisher of The Maine Monitor, announced the launch of a new initiative to provide people in towns in western and downeast Maine with a new source for news about their communities: Monitor Local.

“In parts of Maine where no local paper exists and no local reporters keep people informed of town developments, specifically in rural places, people told us they feel disenfranchised. They described being unable to cast informed votes at the polls and unaware of decisions by local leaders,” said Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, executive director of MCPIR. “We couldn’t stand by and let that happen.”

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