How high gas prices are rippling through Maine’s economy

Maine’s pool of money from taxes on home sales is growing. How is it being used? Read this story by Caitlin Andrews.

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.

Federal appeals court upholds Maine’s three-day waiting period to buy a gun | News Center Maine

How high gas prices are rippling through Maine’s economy | Portland Press Herald

Maine banks helped foil $46M in fraud in 2025, trade group says | MaineBiz

Maine man drowns while saving children from rip current in Florida | WGME

Proposed Jay data center would not require local approval under plan | Franklin Journal

Maine online gamblers to lose credit card option under new law later this year | WGME

RSU 73 budget clears first of two voter hurdles | The Maine Monitor

Data links new problem gambling to online sports betting in Maine | Spectrum News Maine

Know of a story The Maine Monitor should look into? Click the banner to contact the newsroom.

Thanks for allowing me to provide you with a look at today's news. We'll be back with more tomorrow.

this edition was curated by george harvey

Have feedback or a correction? Let us know directly: george@themainemonitor.org.

The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization. We deliver Maine’s Daily Digest, a special curated look at important news from across Maine’s news organizations, as part of our commitment to ensuring Mainers have the information they need to be engaged citizens.

Our publication, The Maine Monitor, produces original investigative and in-depth news reporting on issues impacting the state of Maine to better inform and empower our readers. Have feedback, a correction or know of something we should look into? Send it to our newsroom.

If you value this special curated service and our original Maine Monitor reporting please consider making a donation! We cannot do this without your support.

DONATE NOW

banner that states the maine monitor is part of the trust project, an international consortium of news organizations implementing transparency standards. tap to learn about the monitor's editorial standards.

Manage preferences | Update email address