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What we're reading
— Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat from Maine's 2nd District, voted for his party's tax, climate and health care package on Friday, something sure to feature as a wedge issue in his race with former Rep. Bruce Poliquin.
— Several Maine hospitals are not fully complying with a federal price transparency law.
— A Mainer has opened an addiction recovery center in Florida, but a teenage felony conviction from 14 years ago is hindering efforts to find housing.
— All Maine counties will see the number of days topping 90 degrees double in the next 30 years, a new study found.
— The state university system is preparing for a class of students with unprecedented academic needs after three of their four high-school years were affected by COVID-19.
— A man who waited three years for a trial is asking Maine's high court to find that his right to a speedy trial was violated, the Maine Monitor reports.
— Maine has hired a great white shark researcher two years after a shocking fatal attack off Bailey Island. |
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| 📷 Rep. Timothy Theriault, R-China, left, talks with Rep. Kathleen Dillingham, R-Oxford, on April 25, 2022, at the State House in Augusta. (AP photo by Robert F. Bukaty) |
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The race for the Maine House looks tight, tight, tight.
— Maine's lower chamber is the only true toss-up battleground of its kind in the country right now, according to the forecasting site CNalysis.
— A dive into its ratings for each seat shows how close that is, with top battlegrounds hemmed in along the Midcoast or just inland, hemmed in between increasingly polarized northern and southern regions.
— The site gives Republicans a slight advantage in their race to flip the Democratic-led chamber, at a 54 percent chance. The Senate is looking harder, with Democrats carrying a 60 percent chance of keeping the majority there.
Maine's biggest political rivals were in Aroostook County this weekend.
— Gov. Janet Mills and former Gov. Paul LePage marched in the Acadian Festival parade in Madawaska on Sunday, the latest in a string of intersecting campaign appearances at Maine's summer festivals.
— The current governor stayed in the St. John Valley into today, where she toured the new international bridge in Madawaska and is heading to an event at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. |
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