Monday, March 25, 2024

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The reality is this is probably the biggest bite of the apple we can take."

— Biologist Steven Pelletier, referring to reducing emissions. Read how Maine’s controversial electric vehicle sales mandate failed.

Today’s Top Maine Stories

This chart shows just how bad Maine's indigent defense system has become.There is no clear path to fix the issue.

Attorneys say state evaluators failed to carefully review bids on a massive Medicaid contract. An appeal committee will decide whether there are grounds to invalidate the state’s award.

Linda Bean, the granddaughter of entrepreneur L. L. Bean has died at age 82.The businesswoman founded Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine and Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster among other ventures.

Both the University of Maine women’s basketball team and the men’s hockey team fell over the weekend to their respective rivals. The Black Bears will be back on the ice Thursday facing off against Cornell in the NCAA regional tournament game

Maine in Pictures

Ice weighs down birch trees in Dedham. An early spring snowstorm dumped snow and ice throughout Maine on Saturday. Photo by Linda Coan O’Kresik.

Inside the Newsroom

I was out in the woods in Veazie with a pre-Kindergarten class a few weeks ago for my recent story about how the state’s flawed school funding formula is threatening Maine’s pre-K goals. This class is nature-based. So, my reporting actually looked like me in the mud with a bunch of 4-year-olds as they splashed around and made “strawberry and banana” flavored mud cakes. At one point, one of the students offered me the tiniest pinecones to commemorate my visit with his class. It was easily some of the most fun I have had in the field reporting.

— Sawyer Loftus

More News from Around the State

From the Opinion Pages

“When filing your state tax forms this year, you can check a box to donate money to a hunger relief fund… The form allows a portion — or all — of a person’s tax refund to be directed to one or several of these funds.”

Opinion: Your tax form can help ease hunger in Maine

Life in Maine

Farm sitting is becoming one of Maine's latest cottage industries. And an increased number of homesteaders looking for critter sitters.

Marianne Smyth wasn't an Irish heiress after all. The woman with more than 10 aliases was from Maine.

Turkeys are back in the Maine woods, just in time to prepare for the spring hunt. Check out this troupe strutting by Allie Ladd’s trail camera.

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