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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.

Trump administration says it will withhold SNAP from Democrat-led states if they don’t provide data | Associated Press

Snowstorm continues to impact Maine through the evening | News Center Maine

Maine hospitals sue Trump administration over changes to drug discount program | Maine Public

State receives over $39M to help low-income Mainers with heating costs | WGME

Maine secretary of state opposes using federal immigration database to determine voter eligibility | Portland Press Herald

Maine school boards scramble to respond to lawsuit over transgender policies | The Maine Monitor and Bangor Daily News

Gov. Mills says Maine is on track to go entirely green by 2040 | WGME  (Maine Monitor context: Maine’s heat pump boom has been promising for rural workforce development. Can it last?)

Maine Turnpike saw record-setting traffic over Thanksgiving weekend | Portland Press Herald

Portland froze hotel development for a year. Did it do anything? | Portland Press Herald

Sen. King says Trump administration may have committed war crime | WGME

Lewiston schedules special election for State House seat | Sun Journal

Maine sees slight increase in permanent housing placements among veterans, according to VA | Maine Public

Google maps shortcut to turnpike causing headaches on Turner’s County Road | Sun Journal

Gorham Planning Board debates future of Amazon facility in town | WGME

In the November edition of The Maine Monitor Radio Hour on WERU, Report for America corps member Daniel O’Connor (who reports for The Maine Monitor and Bangor Daily News) discussed his reporting on the budget crisis in Washington County and the Maine school districts that have voted to change policies around transgender students. Listen to the episode.

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

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

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