Thirty-five days after an ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, federal officials have yet to provide his family or the public with basic answers about his death. “Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero should be alive today,” Rep. Chellie Pingree said Monday during a congressional hearing on the shooting. “His family deserves…
Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Orono) is renewing an effort to give Mainers more control over repairing their appliances and electronic devices after a similar proposal narrowly did not pass in the Legislature earlier this year. Tipping resubmitted legislation Thursday that would establish a “right to repair” for appliances and electronics in Maine. A previous version passed…
Graham Platner, a veteran and oyster farmer from Sullivan, Maine, is the Democratic nominee for United States Senate. The race was called shortly after the polls closed and current totals from the Bangor Daily News have Platner taking 72.3% of the vote to 19.4% for Governor Janet Mills, who remained on the ballot despite suspending…
On a crisp afternoon in early April 2026, Richard Davis walked to the end of a boat launch on the Back River, a tidal channel that cuts through Midcoast Maine’s rocky coastline. As the tide swept in, Davis, co-founder of a local group called Protect Wiscasset and an area resident, fixed his attention on the…
How did it all go so wrong for Gov. Janet Mills in her quest to unseat Sen. Susan Collins? In case you missed it, last October, the current two term governor and former four-term attorney general (otherwise known as the most powerful Democrat in Maine) decided to try and flex her formidable stature by entering…
After Gov. Janet Mills’ announcement on Thursday that she’s suspended her primary campaign for the US senate, the way seems clear for Graham Platner – a progressive candidate who’s been strongly leading in the polls – to face Sen. Susan Collins in November. Polls have shown Platner with a consistent lead against Collins, among voters…
Maine lawmakers have approved a first-in-the-nation measure that would temporarily halt the construction of large data centers, setting up a high-stakes decision for Gov. Janet Mills as concerns mount over the industry’s environmental impact and rising energy demands. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Melanie Sachs (D-Freeport), would impose an 18-month moratorium on new data centers…
At a Saturday rally in Portland, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren gave a rousing endorsement of U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, framing his race as a contrast between needed change and more of the same. “There are those who moderate, who go along to get along, who have ideas at the margins, who want to…
Maine’s legislature passed a supplemental budget this past week and Gov. Janet Mills signed it. There is a lot to like in the budget, but let me take a minute to point out perhaps the most significant piece of what they just accomplished. Because it was very significant. For the first time since 2018, when…
A new poll released April 7 shows Graham Platner with a commanding lead over Gov. Janet Mills in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, 61% to 28%, a 33-point margin that has widened since last fall. The survey, conducted in late March by the Maine People’s Resource Center (a sister organization of Maine People’s Alliance,…