Afternoon Links - Friday March 28, 2025

Friday, March 28, 2025

Asylum Seekers

Mainers alarmed by arrest of immigrants after midcoast traffic stop 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine’s international border agents are using drones to make more arrests 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Business

Scarborough packaging plant to close 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

City

Letter: Live Nation venue is not what Portland needs 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Portland, Maine artists raise concerns over Live Nation's proposed concert venue - YouTube - CBS 13 News

New Live Music Venue in Portland, Maine, Sparks Debate 🏛 WCYY

Civil Rights

Letter: Who will really speak up for women? 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Constitutional Crisis

Maine Secretary of State concerned over Trump’s order to overhaul elections 🏛 Maine Morning Star

After Trump Threats, ACLU of Maine Sends Letter ... 🏛 ACLU of Maine

Social Security nominee vows service will improve despite mass firings, office closures 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Gov. Mills says cuts to Social Security Administration could be devastating for Mainers - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Appeals court turns down Trump administration on reinstating OMB funding freeze 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine to lose more than $90M in cut to federal health grants 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine public health advocates decry Trump administration's decision to cut off CDC funding 🏛 Maine Public

UMaine pauses new financial offers to grad students amid funding uncertainty 🏛 Bangor Daily News

UMaine to pause new graduate student job offers, citing funding uncertainty 🏛 Portland Press Herald

UMaine pauses financial assistance to graduate students due to federal funding uncertainty 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Maine loses $91 million in COVID-era funds under Donald Trump’s new cuts 🏛 Bangor Daily News

USDA food cuts come as number of hungry Mainers keeps rising 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Fired federal employee living in Maine sues Trump administration to get job back - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Susan Collins voted for Donald Trump’s budget chief. Now she doesn’t like his cuts. 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Susan Collins clashes with Trump on spending cut 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending 🏛 New York Times

Top appropriator Collins issues warning to White House budget office 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Zoom In/Zoom Out: All eyes on NLRB 🏛 Dear Mainer

U.S.-Canada trade clash hits home in northern Maine, testing cross-border economy - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Opinion: Health of democracy depends on health of public education 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Opinion: Leave analysis of Trump’s motives to the shrinks 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Blame the bully, not Gov. Mills 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Letter: Privatizing everything is a terrible idea 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Letter: Congressional Republicans need to stand up to Trump 🏛 Portland Press Herald

COVID-19

Maine families honor and remember loved ones lost to COVID 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

5 years since first COVID-related death in Maine 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Education

Mainers call on legislature to fund education and more by raising taxes on wealthy 🏛 Maine Beacon

Investing in mentoring programs supports teachers and their students 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Food and Drink

Maine Food ＆ Dining News: Kennebunk, Ogunquit, Falmouth, Belmont, Bath, Belfast, Westbrook 🏛 Portland Food Map

Could Biddeford be Maine’s new pizza capital? 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Popular Portland, Maine, Deli Moves Location 🏛 WCYY

What’s behind that organic label? 🏛 The Maine Monitor

Pasta 212 Food Truck, Portland Summer 2025 🏛 Reddit

Health Care

Health care groups push to roll back miscarriage reporting requirements 🏛 The Maine Monitor

Opinion: Invest in women and you invest in Maine 🏛 Portland Press Herald

GOP legislators want to overturn abortion law, from total ban to mifepristone restrictions 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Saco agency to establish state’s 1st locked residential psychiatric treatment center for children 🏛 Portland Press Herald

UNE blood test may offer hope for women with aggressive forms of cancer 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

History

Throwback Thursday Photo: Whaling Wall 1993 ＆ 2025 🏛 Portland Old Port

Housing

A new Portland tenants union wants to help monitor for rent control violations 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Portland landlords ordered to pay tenants $34,000 in overcharged rent 🏛 WGME

How Maine’s Largest Resident-Owned Mobile-Home Park Came to Be 🏛 Down East

Labor

Labor advocates lay out priorities for Maine lawmakers 🏛 Maine Public

More nurses, better pay for state workers on the agenda for labor this session 🏛 Maine Beacon

Letter: State holidays should include all 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine approves 9.6% rate reduction for workers’ comp premiums 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Lewiston Mass Shooting

Police share photos from Lewiston mass shooting investigation but withhold vast majority - YouTube - WMTW-TV

LGBTQIA+

Trump administration targets Maine again, this time on transgender policy in schools 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Maine school district won’t sign Trump’s Title IX agreement 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Maine officials won’t comply with the Trump administration's trans athlete ban 🏛 NBC News

Maine defies Trump order to ban transgender athletes, risking federal funding - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Maine officials won't sign Trump administration's Title IX compliance agreement - YouTube - WMTW-TV

Maine refuses to ban transgender athletes from girls sports in spite of Trump mandate - YouTube - CBS 13 News

Thursday is Maine's deadline to sign a resolution pledging to comply with Title IX 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Poll: Mainers want transgender athletes barred from competing under their gender identity 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Outdoors

Get ready for a partial solar eclipse this weekend - YouTube - NEWS CENTER Maine

Maine Audubon offers new way to be part of Annual Loon Count 🏛 The Windham Eagle

Photography

Sunwashed Sunrise 🏛 Reddit

Police

FBI agents visit Boothbay transfer station 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Death under investigation in South Portland 🏛 Bangor Daily News

Debate complicates Maine legislation for text, app notification for crime victims 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Politics

Attempt to censure Maine House Speaker fails despite frustration from Republicans 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Republican fails in attempt to censure House speaker 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Attempt to censure Maine House Speaker Fecteau fails to pass 🏛 WCSH News Center Maine

Maine Senate confirms economic development commissioner 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Secretary of state who publicly sparred with Trump running for Maine governor 🏛 Boston.com

Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health nominees confirmed 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Sen. King questions national security officials on leaked group chat war planning 🏛 Maine Morning Star

‘Signalgate’ group chat revealed precise attack timeline, surveillance of target 🏛 Maine Morning Star

Public Safety

Portland man killed in crash remembered as loving, spirited friend 🏛 Portland Press Herald

State task force mixed on whether Maine should authorize opening of safe-use sites 🏛 Maine Public

Things to Do

New festival at Portland Public Library celebrates the comic arts 🏛 Portland Press Herald

Centro-matic with The Pale and Pete Kilpatrick Supergroup 🏛 SPACE

Discovery Series: Olive Klug with special guest Creekbed ... 🏛 One Longfellow Square

John Mulaney Returns Portland, Maine 🏛 Visit Portland

This week in Maine movie theaters: March 28-April 3 🏛 Reddit

Transportation

Peaks Island proposed car ferry price change 🏛 Reddit

Transportation in Maine: What’s Wrong 🏛 Natural Resources Council of Maine

Vacationland

Fair fight brewing between Cumberland and Fryeburg over conflicting dates - YouTube - CBS 13 News