Southern Baptists growing in Maine despite national decline
Southern Baptist churches are being established in Maine as faith leaders see the lack of a historical foothold as an opportunity for growth.| The Maine Monitor
A primary goal is to boost resilience by putting power onto the grid at times when other renewable resources aren’t generating electricity.| The Maine Monitor
School committee members say opponents have cited few specifics, while a prominent politician is vowing to keep fighting the district on it.| The Maine Monitor
The correspondent will be the first to cover Maine’s delegation for a Maine newsroom in more than 15 years.| The Maine Monitor
Many Maine municipalities are doing their first revaluations since the pandemic boom in home values, making residents concerned about taxes.| The Maine Monitor
Special education students are typically separated from the rest of the student body to receive services. A state-run pilot program aims to change that.| The Maine Monitor
Maine joins nearly a dozen other states around the country that have added “coercive control” to their definition of domestic abuse in civil code.| The Maine Monitor
New England is warming faster than the rest of the world, which has correlated with a marked uptick in cases of tick-borne diseases, including Lyme, Anaplasmosis and babesiosis in Maine and throughout the Northeast.| The Maine Monitor
We took three cases to health policy experts. They couldn't provide answers on individual eligibility, but rather gave a general overview of the new rules.| The Maine Monitor
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Southern Baptist churches are being established in Maine as faith leaders see the lack of a historical foothold as an opportunity for growth.| The Maine Monitor
Advocates complain defendants are being denied lawyers or assigned attorneys who aren’t up to the job.| The Maine Monitor
Angelina Dube Peterson is indigent and unable to afford to hire her own lawyer. She waited for weeks in jail to be assigned an attorney.| The Maine Monitor
The underfunded system negatively affects attorneys and indigent defendants, according to Maine's civil rights advisory committee.| The Maine Monitor
Samantha Hogan is the former government accountability reporter for The Maine Monitor.| The Maine Monitor
Potential over-billing by lawyers representing Maine's poor has some questioning the financial oversight of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services.| The Maine Monitor
Two large solar projects in Maine have reportedly already been put on hold in anticipation of the bill’s passage.| The Maine Monitor
Maine’s current renewable energy policies saved ratepayers $21.5 million between 2011 and 2022, according to testimony from the state.| The Maine Monitor
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Roughly 50 religious leaders and advocates testified on bills restricting bathroom use and participation in women’s sports this spring.| The Maine Monitor
Advocates and developers warn that the law threatens to put Maine’s growing renewable energy sector on ice.| The Maine Monitor
“Stories like this remind readers why newspapers continue to play an important role in their daily lives,” a contest judge wrote of one Monitor story.| The Maine Monitor
Heat extremes are expected to become more common as the climate warms, according to experts.| The Maine Monitor
“It’s still, by far, our biggest lifesaver with regards to two-lane, rural, head-on collisions.”| The Maine Monitor
A quarter of Maine attorneys disciplined for serious misconduct in the past decade also represented the poor with sex crimes and felonies often overlooked.| The Maine Monitor
Maine is the only state without a public defender system. Legal help for the poor is left to private attorneys and an office that doesn't supervise them.| The Maine Monitor
Four of the five nursing homes that closed in Maine this fall had big increases in contracted staff hours leading up to the pandemic.| The Maine Monitor
An OPEGA report found MCILS lacks established financial policies to meet constitutional obligations to provide high-quality representation to Maine's poor.| The Maine Monitor
Maine's indigent defendants wait longer for lawyers in an overburdened indigent defense system.| The Maine Monitor
The director of Maine's indigent legal services system cautions that five people are not enough to solve the systemic problems.| The Maine Monitor
Although Maine nearly meets proposed federal staffing standards, concerns persist over nursing home workforce shortages, potential closures.| The Maine Monitor
The use of contract nurses and assistants in Maine has soared since 2017 as administrators scramble for solutions.| The Maine Monitor
After an initial decline, the rate of antipsychotic medications given to nursing home residents in Maine has risen in recent years.| The Maine Monitor
Long term care advocates, providers and industry leaders urged Maine lawmakers to provide additional funding to prevent nursing home closures.| The Maine Monitor
The proposed regulations come after The Maine Monitor and ProPublica found dozens of violations at the state’s largest facilities.| The Maine Monitor
With the disappearance of nursing home beds across Maine, thousands of aging Mainers are being sent to “nonmedical” residences that aren’t equipped to handle more intensive health needs.| The Maine Monitor
The state is updating regulations for residential care and assisted living facilities that would increase staffing requirements.| The Maine Monitor
Maine officials may ask lawyers to stop accepting new assignments from the courts, after finding that 11 lawyers each have more than 301 open cases.| The Maine Monitor
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A planned letter will ask lawmakers to convene a special session to raise lawyer pay to $150 an hour amid record attorney shortage.| The Maine Monitor
Justice Michaela Murphy says proposed agreement in ACLU’s lawsuit would not be “judicially enforceable."| The Maine Monitor
Maine's system of providing defense lawyers to indigent clients has "deteriorated significantly," according to a Superior Court Justice.| The Maine Monitor
Frustrated by a lack of progress, 'last resort' lawsuit alleges a state commission violates defendants' constitutional rights.| The Maine Monitor
The state is planning to implement an updated payment system on Jan. 1. Facilities still don’t have estimates of what their rates will be.| The Maine Monitor
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The state’s chief judge for superior courts says courts are unable to find a defense lawyer with "disturbing frequency" for the state's poor.| The Maine Monitor
The proposed expansion would cost $8.8 million and hire more than three dozen public defenders across Maine.| The Maine Monitor
Maine's public defense agency reports only 224 attorneys are accepting assignments to new criminal and child protection cases from courts.| The Maine Monitor
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The disappearance of nursing home beds is sending thousands to “nonmedical” residences that aren’t equipped to handle more intensive health needs.| The Maine Monitor
