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News and notes
— Gov. Janet Mills was pictured on the red carpet at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Her trip was paid for by the Democratic Governors Association, which held events around the race, according to Alex Raposo, the governor's campaign manager. Mills was wearing a lobster fascinator hat made by a woman-owned small business in Portland that the governor used as "an opportunity to promote Maine and Maine lobster," her campaign said.
— Mills will be in Greenville instead of Louisville on Wednesday. Beginning at 10 a.m., she has several stops planned across Piscataquis County, including a visit to Northern Light C.A. Dean Hospital and sweeping down Route 6 to end her day with meetings on economic development issues in Dover-Foxcroft.
— Former 2020 U.S. Senate candidate Lisa Savage is on the cover of this month's "Beer & Weed" magazine, smoking (you guessed it) weed. Here's your soundtrack. |
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What we're reading
— After arguments before Maine's high court, here are the three questions that will decide the fate of the imperiled Central Maine Power Co. corridor.
— The Hampden-based school district banned conservative activist Shawn McBreairty from its property after he played an obscene recording at a school board meeting late last month.
— Maine's university system professors union is lobbying for changes to the hiring process after the system did not disclose to a search committee that incoming University of Maine at Augusta President Michael Laliberte faced no-confidence votes from students and faculty at his current institution.
— Here's a guide to the type of house $300,000 can buy you across Maine. |
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📷 Lead photo: Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on May 4, 2022. (AP photo by J. Scott Applewhite)
🚫 Correction: An item in Tuesday's newsletter wrongly described a 2020 ruling by Maine's high court on an anti-corridor referendum that year. It deemed it unconstitutional. |
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