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Ari Snider/Maine PublicThe New England Fishermen's Stewardship Association has drawn over $1.1 million from a group connected to Leonard Leo, an influential conservative activist. Now it's setting out to raise money from the coastal communities it says it's helping. -
Robert F. Bukaty / APMaine officials said it's business as usual for the remaining weeks of the home heating season, but it's unclear whether staffing cuts at the federal office that administers the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program mean that its future is in jeopardy.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Education is giving Maine until April 11 to comply with the Trump administration's interpretation of Title IX. -
Title X supports reproductive and preventative health care for people with low incomes, including birth control, cancer screenings, and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. -
Many testified that they'd turned to psilocybin therapy after other mental health treatments failed to help them. -
One-quarter of Mainers receive Social Security, and Gov. Janet Mills said 43% of households receive benefits in Aroostook County. -
The Tesla Takedown movement was organized to rally against what it calls the corrupt, anti-democratic, and plutocratic regime running the federal government. -
The U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce wants answers about how the February 2025 encampment by Students for Justice in Palestine in Smith Union was handled.
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A legislative committee today heard public testimony on a variety of bills that would restrict abortion access in Maine. -
Maine's secretary of state declined to say whether Maine will get involved in any court battles challenging the executive order but noted that individual states have broad discretion to set their own election laws. -
The U.S. Department of Education says it is looking into reports that dozens of school districts have policies that could keep information secret from parents. But school officials dispute the allegations. -
It’s been a bewildering barrage: hasty investigations, threats to yank federal funds, threats of lawsuits, federal contracts canceled and restored without explanation and unsupported claims by President Donald Trump that Maine has “apologized.”
