USDA warns SNAP benefits won’t be issued in November

Electricity rates for Mainers are going up because more natural gas is being sold overseas. The increase is anticipated as CMP separately requests a rate hike. Read this Maine Monitor story by Tux Turkel.

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.

170,000 Mainers rely on SNAP. Funding for next month's benefits was just eliminated. | Spectrum News Maine

Video shows Graham Platner with ‘troubling’ tattoo that appears to be a Nazi symbol | Bangor Daily News

Maine nurses cite safety concerns amid staffing shortages and rising workplace violence | WGME (Maine Monitor context: A law made assault in an emergency room a felony. Did it help curb violence?)

Portland city councilors reject $9 million bid to expand surface parking at the Jetport | Maine Public

Lewiston victims say $1.9 million raised after mass shooting was not used to help them | WMTW

Cumberland County commissioners put off vote on jail contract to hold ICE detainees | Portland Press Herald

Some Republican Senators entertain nuking the filibuster to end the shutdown. Here's what Susan Collins says. | NOTUS

State official facing animal cruelty charges in public safety dog's death has resigned | Maine Public

Versant taps Canadian utility executive as new president | Portland Press Herald

A referendum in this Maine vacation town is all about child care | Bangor Daily News & The Maine Monitor

North Atlantic right whale population grew by 2% in 2024 | Maine Public

Join us for our next listening tour stops in Jackman and Augusta. We'll be at the Northland Hotel in Jackman on October 21st from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and at The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta on October 23rd from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

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

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