Morning Links - Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Arts

Theater review: ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ delivers comedy on many levels 🏛 Portland Press Herald

The Wharf Report — Michael Babbitt’s ‘Sucks To Be You’ Video 🏛 Quartersnacks

Business

Starbucks Inside the Maine Mall Permanently Closes 🏛 WCYY

City

Rent control violations often go unpunished in Portland 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Climate Emergency

Maine businesses shocked that insurance won't cover flood damage 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Community

Maine shelter reunites family with lost cat after 10 years 🏛 WGME

Meet the newest K9 member of the Portland Police Department 🏛 WMTW

COVID-19

Maine sees uptick in RSV, COVID-19, and influenza cases 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Portland offers grants for small business still feeling pandemic impacts - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Education

Teenage student charged with posting threat to a Portland high school 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Portland school placed on lockdown after alleged threatening message from student 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Portland student charged with terrorizing following online threat 🏛 WMTW

Portland school PATHS goes into lockdown Monday 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

To save Maine’s education workforce, we must reimagine teaching 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Environment

We can solve the widespread problem of lead in school water 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Casella seeks extension to management term of Juniper Ridge 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Newly conserved 47 acres of marshland along upper York River viewed as 'climate win' 🏛 Maine Public

Letter: Find balance by protecting Sears Island and building port at Mack Point 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Food and Drink

New Openings: Paella Seafood is Back in Business 🏛 Portland Old Port

Holy Donut, Oakhurst Dairy launch limited edition milk flavor 🏛 WGME

Taste The Best Biscuits And Gravy In Maine At This Locally-Owned Diner - Only In Your State ® 🏛 Only in Your State

Don's Lunch in Westbrook 🏛 Portland Food Map

Guns

We have an obligation to work together to keep our communities safe 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Health Care

Proposed constitutional amendment on abortion draws crowd but faces uphill battle 🏛 Maine Public

Maine Democrats pick uphill fight to enshrine abortion rights in Constitution 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine lawmakers consider constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights 🏛 Maine Beacon

Dozens want ME constitution to better protect reproductive rights 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Jared Golden and Republican challengers differ sharply on abortion issue 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Struggling emergency medical responders still awaiting $31 million in funds approved last year 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Lawmakers urged to distribute critical funding to ME EMS agencies 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

History

Katahdin snowmobiler mystery is solved 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Housing

Home prices are starting to drop in these Maine towns 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine home sales fell nearly 20 percent in 2023 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Justice

Superior Court orders government entity to pay $130,000 in FOAA case 🏛 Maine Public

Maine judge makes county insurer pay for withholding open records 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Texan pleads guilty to bilking Mainers of $323K for phony drug-testing business 🏛 Bangor Daily News

LGBTQIA+

Maine's trans health care law targeted by far-right lies 🏛 Advocate

Outdoors

6 Maine restaurants to reach by snowmobile or cross-country skis 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Raging winds kept us off the fire tower on Williams Mountain 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Police

Portland police arrest burglary suspect inside Congress Street building 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Man charged after Portland building ransacked twice 🏛 WMTW

Politics

Coaxed by Susan Collins, former Maine GOP chair to challenge Angus King 🏛 Maine Public

King’s Republican challenger has a history of pushing election, COVID conspiracies 🏛 Maine Beacon

State

Maine’s right-to-repair law now in effect, but its full impact won’t be felt until next year 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Road deaths in Maine declined in 2023 🏛 Maine Public

Things to Do

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