Clinics denied Medicaid funds during lawsuit

How Maine churches are reckoning with fear of immigration raids. Faith leaders are working to set up protocols for interacting with federal agents and ensuring immigrants know their rights, as well as helping to launch an ICE Watch initiative. Click the image to read this Maine Monitor story by Sean Scott.

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Maine clinics denied Medicaid funds during lawsuit after Trump cuts to abortion providers | Associated Press

Housing and business developments are stalling for years in Brewer | Bangor Daily News

Maine man accused of faking his own drowning arrested by U.S. Marshals | WMTW

Several suspects remain on the run after attack on law enforcement in Rumford, police say | WGME

After calls for transparency, Waldo County forms opioid settlement committee | Midcoast Villager (Maine Monitor context: Counties and municipalities have spent about $7 million of their opioid settlement funds so far)

Why Maine is losing out on a wood building boom | Bangor Daily News

Who foots the bill when Maine responders rescue hikers in unorganized territories? | Sun Journal

Maine group raises commissary funds for immigrants in ICE detention | Maine Public

Portland Museum of Art demolition begins | News Center Maine

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