Maine’s pool of money from taxes on home sales is growing

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.

Maine's pool of money from taxes on home sales is growing. How is it being used? | The Maine Monitor

Maine electric ratepayers could get refunds for 15 years of overpaying for power transmission | Maine Public

Only 11 arrested during ICE's Maine surge had criminal records, new data show | Bangor Daily News

Federal government will get access to Maine schools' athletic rosters, judge rules | WMTW

Bill to protect pregnant hospital patients is one step closer to becoming law | WABI (Maine Monitor context: Her labor turned dangerous. The closest hospital had just stopped delivering babies.)

Could Maine make polluters pay for the cost of climate change? Lawmakers want to study it first. | Portland Press Herald

Proposed school cellphone ban in Maine advances | Spectrum News Maine

Schumer had a plan to win back the Senate. But some Democrats aren't on board | Associated Press

How Maine's elite private colleges sold Wabanaki land to bankroll early construction | Portland Press Herald

State drops autism care provider's contract after alleged health and safety violations | News Center Maine

RSU 71 board members say they were pressured to support closing Swanville school | Bangor Daily News

WERU is a proud partner of The Maine Monitor.

Maine Monitor reporter Kristian Moravec appeared on News Center Maine to talk about her reporting on the impacts of the Trump administration eliminating, then returning, some money for mental health workers in Maine schools. Watch the appearance.

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