Morning Links - Saturday, February 24, 2024

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Arts

What Actually Is the 'Hopeful' Sign You See Everywhere in Maine? 🏛 WJBQ

Business

A day on the ocean with Maine's tough winter scallopers 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine’s Public Sector Agencies Are Warming to Drones. Where is the Private Sector? 🏛 DroneVideos.com

Eimskip revenues declined by nearly a third last year 🏛 Maine Public

City

Neighborhood Meeting on 42 Atlantic Street Redevelopment Set For March 5th 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Portland to decide on $1.2m loan for housing project 🏛 Spectrum News

Franklin Street in Portland, Maine Could Get a Redesign 🏛 WJBQ

Climate Emergency

Maine fishing businesses struggling to recover a month after storms 🏛 Bangor Daily News

How This Winter’s Storms Have Impacted Maine and the Lobster Industry 🏛 Maine Lobster Festival

Mills makes formal requests for federal disaster relief from January storms 🏛 Portland Press Herald

ME governor seeks major disaster declaration for January storms 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine should adopt Clean Car standards 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Councils made the right call on Sawyer Street 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Offshore wind can help us preserve the things we love in Maine 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Dover-Foxcroft weighs dam removal 🏛 The Maine Monitor

Environment

Coffee with the Casco Baykeeper: PFAS 🏛 Friends of Casco Bay

This forestry practice makes ugly scenery on Maine hiking trails 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Guns

Chief enforcer of US gun laws fears Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting 🏛 Associated Press

Health Care

MaineCare impacted by Change Health cybersecurity issue - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Housing

While Maine home prices continue to rise and inventory continues to fall, those trends are slowing 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Justice

Eliot Cutler disbarred from practicing law in Maine after child-porn conviction 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Westbrook man files malpractice lawsuit against Mercy Hospital after leg amputation 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine foreign election interference law may be paused by federal judge 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine prisons, jails see wave of corrections graduates 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine State Prison: 3 staff members on administrative leave 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Police

Maine attorney general finds South Portland officer's use of deadly force justified 🏛 Maine Public

Maine attorney general rules South Portland officer was justified in shooting armed suspect 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine AG rules South Portland officer justified in shooting armed suspect 🏛 WGME

Shooting of South Portland man by police ruled justified by Maine AG 🏛 WMTW

Politics

Proposed bill looks to safeguard Maine shoreland 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Experiential learning works. Lawmakers should support it. 🏛 Bangor Daily News

State

Maine’s new pine tree license plate to be unveiled next week 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine fails to meet federal standards when returning at-risk children to their families, watchdog report says 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Unhoused

UNE will host a public forum on homelessness, Biddeford, Maine 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine inmates raise $12,000 to help homeless Mainers 🏛 WGME

Vacationland

Meet Maine’s First Lobster Festival Delegate Adelaide Hendricks 🏛 Maine Lobster Festival