Small business owners bracing for soaring health care premiums

Fighting bugs with bugs: How the Midcoast is defending its hemlocks. The hemlock woolly adelgid is indifferent to property lines as it marches inland to Maine’s hemlock belt. Read this story by Emmett Gartner of The Maine Monitor.

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Maine small business owners bracing for soaring health care premiums if ACA tax credits expire | Portland Press Herald

Sen. Collins signs petition to overturn Maine's transgender protections | WGME

Maine braces for record travel numbers for Thanksgiving | Spectrum News Maine

Solar companies sue to block rollback of Maine subsidy program | Maine Public

Maine increases revenue projections by $250 million over next 2 years | Portland Press Herald

As temperatures drop, Maine fire department warns of space heater, wood stove dangers | Spectrum News Maine

Candidate for Maine governor Troy Jackson addresses CD-2 speculation | WMTW

New training programs aim to grow Maine’s construction workforce | News Center Maine

California nonprofit can acquire Central Maine Healthcare in Lewiston, state says | Morning Sentinel

DOJ settles lawsuit with states over domestic violence funds | Maine Public (Maine Monitor context: Tracking Maine’s legal challenges to Trump’s agenda)

Saint Dominic Regional High School announces plan to reopen in Downtown Lewiston | News Center Maine

‘It’s the only identity we have’: Concerns grow over future of sports at Maine’s smallest high schools | Morning Sentinel

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Maine Monitor reporter Emily Bader appeared on News Center Maine to talk about how The MOSS Center, housed at the University of Southern Maine’s Portland campus, is working with local governments as they decide how to spend their opioid settlement funds. Watch the appearance.

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