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What we're reading
— Billionaire megadonor George Soros is spending heavily to oust Cumberland County District Attorney Jonathan Sahrbeck in a June Democratic primary with Kennebec County prosecutor Jackie Sartoris. The outside spending in the race is unprecedented and more is likely coming.
— The Maine State Police must turn over more information on trooper discipline after a judge sided mostly with the BDN and Portland Press Herald more than a year after the papers filed a Freedom of Access Act lawsuit.
— Four Maine police chiefs said they would not wait to confront a gunman in a school, but their departments differed on how much active-shooter training they have offered to their forces.
— A legal-aid group is arguing across Maine that people who have been living in hotels for months or years should be treated as tenants in eviction proceedings, something that would afford many people more time to find a place to live after the capping of a state rental assistance program. |
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News and notes
— Caratunk Selectman Liz Caruso, the underdog Republican opposing former Rep. Bruce Poliquin for the party nomination in the 2nd Congressional District, had a half-hour on Maine Public on Tuesday evening after Poliquin declined a debate. Caruso said she would support federal anti-abortion legislation rather than leaving the issue to states if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
— Former 2nd Congressional District candidate Tiffany Bond has qualified for the November ballot in the district again, the Sun Journal reported. It forces a ranked-choice voting race between Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat, and the Republican primary winner. Bond, an independent, was one of two also-rans whose small group of voters decided the 2018 race between Golden and Poliquin. She lives in Portland but is building a home in Franklin County.
— Mills will declare June Maine Dairy Month at an 11 a.m. event at the Blaine House alongside industry groups with cheese, yogurt and custard tastings. |
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| Builders work on a four-story, 45-unit condominium building under construction on Tuesday in Portland. (AP photo by Robert F. Bukaty) |
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| 📷 Lead photo: A person carrying groceries turns the corner onto State Street in downtown Ellsworth on March 3, 2021. (BDN photo by Natalie Williams) |
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