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MAINE FOCUS

The Maine hospitals with no staff certified to do sexual assault exams

Most hospitals in Maine have at least one sexual assault forensic examiner, but currently five of the state’s 34 hospitals with emergency departments do not, according to a review by the Bangor Daily News. Read More
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    MAINE FOCUS

    Dozens of customers ask Maine to banish CMP

    Using a new approach, they’ve filed a series of complaints asking regulators to kick Maine’s largest utility out of the state. Read More
      • How Central Maine Power failed its customers and still increased profits
      MAINE FOCUS

      After 15 years of task forces, more unconvicted people remain in Maine jails

      A new committee studying ways to stem the rise in prisoners awaiting trial questions how to “break the futile cycle of task forces.” Read More
          MAINE FOCUS

          With few other takers, a nonprofit is buying up distressed housing in Lewiston

          The demolition of three of its buildings is slated for December. Read More
            • Surveying his shrinking empire, Lewiston’s most notorious landlord questions his tenants’ fate
            MAINE FOCUS

            Maine is poised to end secret settlements in workplace discrimination cases

            Around 2 a.m., in the waning hours of the final day of the legislative session, a group of lawmakers sat with the governor in her office in Augusta and looked over a bill, LD 1529, one more time. It had already passed the Maine House and Maine Senate, but Gov. Janet Mills had some concerns. Read More
                MAINE FOCUS

                Even without eviction, some Portland tenants suspect they’ll still have to move

                Three single mothers have been stewing over the future of their Portland homes for weeks now, and a new letter has only seemed to replace a hard deadline to leave with an ambiguous one, they said. Read More
                    MAINE FOCUS

                    Letters evicting low-income Portland tenants were sent in error

                    Low-income tenants at a housing complex in Portland who were surprised and devastated to get eviction notices last month should never have received the letters, a representative for the property owner said late Tuesday. Read More
                      • Mass eviction in Portland to uproot low-income families

                      Documenting the opioid crisis

                      Maine candidates for governor lay out priorities for addressing opioid epidemic

                          Before addiction there’s a child

                              MAINE FOCUS

                              Behind the scenes of Bangor’s battle against the opioid crisis

                                  MAINE FOCUS

                                  17 ideas for you to prioritize to help address the opioid crisis

                                    • Behind the scenes of Bangor’s battle against the opioid crisis
                                    MAINE FOCUS

                                    Family behind mass eviction in Portland runs Massachusetts foundation for children

                                      • Mass eviction in Portland to uproot low-income families
                                      MAINE FOCUS

                                      Mass eviction in Portland to uproot low-income families

                                          MAINE FOCUS

                                          Lewiston Democrats feud over recording candidate says he took of party chair at his door

                                              MAINE FOCUS

                                              Lewiston says a former landlord owes it $200K. He didn’t list that debt when he filed for bankruptcy.

                                                • The ‘total chaos’ caused by a landlord who put tenants in a condemned building with no heat
                                                MAINE FOCUS

                                                As Bangor looks to register and inspect all rentals, here’s what other Maine cities do

                                                    MAINE FOCUS

                                                    While Lewiston sued landlords to force repairs, it gave them $1M to house tenants. That’s changing.

                                                      • Surveying his shrinking empire, Lewiston’s most notorious landlord questions his tenants’ fate
                                                      MAINE FOCUS

                                                      Surveying his shrinking empire, Lewiston’s most notorious landlord questions his tenants’ fate

                                                          MAINE FOCUS

                                                          The ‘total chaos’ caused by a landlord who put tenants in a condemned building with no heat

                                                              MAINE FOCUS

                                                              Maine’s university system: Student suing it has no grounds, had previously agreed not to sue

                                                                  MAINE FOCUS

                                                                  How Lewiston tenants pushed their city to address its housing crisis

                                                                    • Lewiston’s fight against its ‘truly uncooperative’ landlords
                                                                    MAINE FOCUS

                                                                    Map: For the first time, see where Lewiston sued to get landlords to repair homes

                                                                      • Lewiston’s fight against its ‘truly uncooperative’ landlords
                                                                      MAINE FOCUS

                                                                      Lewiston’s fight against its ‘truly uncooperative’ landlords

                                                                        • Map: For the first time, see where Lewiston sued to get landlords to repair homes
                                                                        MAINE FOCUS

                                                                        St. Mary’s hospital still won’t say whether it notified patients of ‘wall of shame’

                                                                          • St. Mary’s hospital employees created a ‘wall of shame’ of patients with disabilities
                                                                          MAINE FOCUS

                                                                          St. Mary’s hospital apologizes for ‘wall of shame’

                                                                            • St. Mary’s hospital employees created a ‘wall of shame’ of patients with disabilities
                                                                            MAINE FOCUS

                                                                            St. Mary’s hospital employees created a ‘wall of shame’ of patients with disabilities

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