Morning Links - Tuesday March 18, 2025

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Asylum Seekers

Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition preps for potential immigrant travel ban - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Border Patrol Messing with people in Auburn 🏛 Reddit

Business

Opinion: Science and industry must shape future of Maine’s fisheries 🏛 Portland Press Herald

City

Portland City Council establishes social housing task force 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Portland City Council approves amended shelter contract and social housing task force - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Portland city councilors consider resolution to create social housing taskforce - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Portland launches initiatives to make city safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Vote to name PPL’s New Electric Box Truck! 🏛 Reddit

Climate Emergency

Maine doles out last of $60M storm recovery fund to 40 businesses 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Mills awards $2 million in final storm recovery grants to Maine businesses 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Governor Mills Announces Award of $2 Million in Recovery and Resilience Grants to Support Maine Businesses Harmed by Severe Storms 🏛 State of Maine

Heat pumps save Mainers up to 60 percent on energy bills, study finds 🏛 Piscataquis Observer

Community

Former Maine lawmaker finds bone marrow donor after leukemiadiagnosis 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Portland hosts annual St. Patrick's Day parade - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Annual Paddy's Day Plunge in Portland raises money for burn survivors - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Looking at progress of Maine Irish Heritage Center's restoration - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Constitutional Crisis

Trump administration gives Maine 10 days to change transgender athlete rules 🏛 Bangor Daily News

White House giving Maine 10 days to comply with transgender ruling 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Trump administration says Maine Principles’ Association, high school violating Title IX 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Trump administration finds Maine high school and sports governing body violated Title IX 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Principals' Association and Greely High School found in violation of Title IX 🏛 Maine Public

Trump administration finds Maine Principals' Association, Greely High School in violation of Title IX 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine Principals' Association, Greely High violated Title IX, feds say - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Read the Trump administration’s proposal for Maine to resolve Title IX violations 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Susan Collins won’t say if she blames Donald Trump for Maine’s funding uncertainty 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Postal service employees will rally to protest Trump's plans to cut 10,000 from workforce 🏛 Maine Public

Protests Against Postal Service Privatization in Bangor ＆ Portland this week 🏛 Reddit

'I want to be heard': Veterans march at Maine State House to protest federal cuts 🏛 WGME

Rep. Pingree and Democratic lawmakers demand answers after USDA cuts 🏛 Maine Public

Maine farmers, others hurt by USDA freeze on funding grants 🏛 Maine Beacon

Trump administration USDA cuts will strip food away from Maine families 🏛 Maine Beacon

King, Pingree demand answers on why USDA cut local food programs 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Federal cuts thwart West Paris farm’s future plans 🏛 Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel

Letter: Cancelling of Maine food program is shameful 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Bowdoin student activists speak out against detainment of Columbia student - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Press Conference to Demand Release of Columbia University Student Mahmoud Khalil Tomorrow at City Hall 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Future uncertain for US Fine Arts Collection amid staff reductions 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

What a potential sale of Portland's US Custom House could mean - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Letter: Trump’s ‘correction’ isn’t working 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Letter: When will Trump and Musk begin helping Americans? 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Why we’re no longer proud to be Americans 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Congress needs to reclaim its power 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Opinion: A single-language ideology is all about power 🏛 Portland Press Herald

COVID-19

5 years and trillions of dollars later, we’re still unaware of the full extent of COVID 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Education

Sentence Review ~ LD165: An Act to Allow School Boards to Expel or Suspend Students Regardless of Grade Level 🏛 Daily Bulldog

Bill would devote $6M per year to support Maine community college students 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Bill sponsor urges Maine lawmakers to vote against her own chaplains in schools bill - YouTube - CBS 13 News

School board approves policy for ‘responsible and ethical use’ of AI 🏛 Harpswell Anchor

Teacher Accused: Behind the Headline - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Elections

Maine begins first-ever post-election audit pilot 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine Secretary of State pilots post-election audits 🏛 Maine Public

Environment

Unsafe levels of forever chemicals found at Brunswick golf course 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Lawmakers weigh bills to exclude nonstick pans, farm equipment from PFAS product ban 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine Audubon heads to water conference to talk about healthy streams 🏛 Maine Audubon

Bill proposes visual barriers around solar farms in Maine 🏛 Maine Public

Food and Drink

New bakery in Windham serves up croissants, cookies, cakes, and more - YouTube - CBS 13 News

This Unassuming Restaurant In Portland Is Where Your Seafood Dreams ... 🏛 Family Destinations Guide

Guns

While reeling from a mass shooting, Lewiston is haunted by a different kind of gun violence 🏛 Boston Globe

Health Care

Children on MaineCare brace the challenges of finding orthodontics 🏛 Portland Press Herald

ME LD975 | 2025-2026 | 132nd Legislature 🏛 Reddit

Justice

Man accused in Maine Mall shooting indicted by grand jury - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Labor

Maine lawmaker pushes for pay transparency with new job listing bill - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Sign Two Petitions, and Show Support for Two Laws That Can Benefit Workers! (Transcript in Comments) 🏛 Reddit

Outdoors

Legislative committee votes against bill to shorten coyote season 🏛 Bangor Daily News

This coyote bill flies in the face of good management practices 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Police

Stolen Firearm Seized During Arrest in Portland Yesterday 🏛 Munjoy Hill News

Portland man arrested after allegedly throwing rock at vehicle 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine man accused of throwing rock through car window arrested with drugs - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Lewiston man arrested after Falmouth crash closes southbound lanes of Maine Turnpike - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Scarborough police investigating string of thefts, criminal mischief - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

8 Investigates: Is the office of chief medical examiner headed toward a breaking point? - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Photography

My Maine This Week: Devil’s Den, Andover by Linda Woods 🏛 Natural Resources Council of Maine

Sebago Lake on film. 🏛 Reddit

Shoodic Point, Acadia National Park 🏛 Reddit

Politics

Opinion: Sen. Collins was wrong to applaud Panama remarks 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine protesters call out Sen. Collins for not holding a town hall in 25 years 🏛 WGME

Letter: A renaming is in order at Bowdoin College 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Public Safety

Lawmakers consider restrictions to needle exchange programs 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine lawmakers consider a bill that would limit syringe exchange programs 🏛 Maine Public

Things to Do

Upcoming Shows 🏛 Portland Noise

Join us in welcoming Kate Kearns, Mike Bove and David Stankiewicz here to s… 🏛 Bluesky - Print: A Bookstore

Viet and Nam 🏛 SPACE

Heavy Show @ BPM on Saturday 🏛 Reddit

Gost is coming to SPACE this Wednesday 🏛 Reddit

Transportation

Cape Air flight diverted to Portland due to engine problems 🏛 WMTW

Engine trouble diverts Boston-bound aircraft to Portland Jetport 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Vacationland

Northern Maine ice carousel may have shattered 5 world records 🏛 The County