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Mar 30, 2020

Are you a medical worker fighting the coronavirus? The BDN wants to hear from you. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/30/pol via

Are you a medical worker fighting the coronavirus? The BDN wants to hear from you.

The number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus continues to rise in Maine, threatening to stress the medical system and the front-line workers fighting the virus.

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Mar 30, 2020

Feds sending more gear to Maine in coronavirus fight, but CDC head says it’s not enough bangordailynews.com/2020/03/30/pol via

Feds sending more gear to Maine in coronavirus fight, but CDC head says it’s not enough

A top Maine health official said on Monday that an expected shipment of protective equipment used by workers fighting the coronavirus would be the last from a federal stockpile for an indefinite...

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Mar 28, 2020

Maine radio talk show host fired after 18 years as WGAN moves to one-host format bangordailynews.com/2020/03/28/pol via

Maine radio talk show host fired after 18 years as WGAN moves to one-host format

The liberal-leaning co-host of one of Maine’s best-known political talk radio shows said he was fired by his station on Friday with the company blaming financial issues caused by the coronavirus...

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Mar 28, 2020

Why Maine’s hospitality-driven economy was so vulnerable to coronavirus bangordailynews.com/2020/03/28/pol via

Why Maine’s hospitality-driven economy was so vulnerable to coronavirus

Maine saw a bigger jump in unemployment filings than any state but New Hampshire from one week to the next this month as the coronavirus epidemic has proven especially damaging to an economy built on...

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Mar 27, 2020

Janet Mills’ business closure order included gun shops. Here’s how some are staying open. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/27/pol via

Janet Mills’ business closure order included gun shops. Here’s how some are staying open.

An order from Gov. Janet Mills this week to close public-facing nonessential businesses due to coronavirus included gun shops, though advocates are pressing her to reverse that while some remain open...

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Mar 27, 2020

Have you filed for unemployment due to the coronavirus in Maine? We want to hear from you. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/27/pol via

Have you filed for unemployment due to the coronavirus in Maine? We want to hear from you.

A record number of people in Maine and the U.S. filed for unemployment insurance last week in one of the biggest signs of economic fallout from the new coronavirus pandemic.

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Mar 27, 2020

Maine manufacturers want to help the state fight coronavirus. Here are the challenges. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/27/pol via

Maine manufacturers want to help the state fight coronavirus. Here are the challenges.

Calls from the Maine health and hospital officials for manufacturers in the state to make medical supplies have been met with enthusiasm as businesses look to help and stay afloat amid the new...

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Mar 26, 2020

Janet Mills moves Maine’s income tax filing deadline to July 15 bangordailynews.com/2020/03/26/pol via

Janet Mills moves Maine’s income tax filing deadline to July 15

Gov. Janet Mills said Thursday that Maine will follow the federal government to extend the deadline to file income taxes from April 15 to July 15 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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Mar 26, 2020

Mainers have another year before they need Real ID-compliant driver’s license bangordailynews.com/2020/03/26/pol via

Mainers have another year before they need Real ID-compliant driver’s license

Homeland Security has pushed back the deadline for compliance because the coronavirus outbreak is preventing people from getting or renewing driver's licenses and other identification.

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Mar 25, 2020

Some Mainers have trouble signing up for unemployment as coronavirus stresses system bangordailynews.com/2020/03/25/pol via

Some Mainers have trouble signing up for unemployment as coronavirus stresses system

The new coronavirus prompted Mainers to file 4,900 new claims over three days this month, an 800 percent increase over the corresponding week in 2019 and near a weekly high set during the 2009...

Mar 25, 2020

Mills eases way for out-of-state doctors to practice medicine in Maine bangordailynews.com/2020/03/25/new via

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What Maine is doing about a shortage of ventilators amid coronavirus fight bangordailynews.com/2020/03/25/pol via

What Maine is doing about a shortage of ventilators amid coronavirus fight

Ventilators may be in short supply if the coronavirus epidemic continues to worsen in Maine, though the state is looking for ways to acquire new devices and retrain hospital staff in anticipation of...

Mar 24, 2020

Read Janet Mills’ full executive order bangordailynews.com/2020/03/24/pol via

Read Janet Mills' full executive order

Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday ordered public-facing businesses that are nonessential to close just after midnight, while allowing grocery stores, pharmacies and other businesses deemed essential to...

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Mar 24, 2020

Janet Mills orders many nonessential Maine businesses to close to fight coronavirus bangordailynews.com/2020/03/24/pol via

Janet Mills orders many nonessential Maine businesses to close to fight coronavirus

The Democratic governor largely resisted edicts in the state’s coronavirus response up until Tuesday.

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Mar 24, 2020

Maine officials offer dire warnings but few specifics on coronavirus revenue fallout bangordailynews.com/2020/03/24/pol via

Maine officials offer dire warnings but few specifics on coronavirus revenue fallout

As cases of the new coronavirus increase throughout Maine, state officials are issuing dire warnings but few specifics so far about the financial and budget implications of the virus that are...

Mar 23, 2020

Behind the scenes at Maine CDC’s daily press briefings bangordailynews.com/2020/03/23/pol via

Behind the scenes at Maine CDC’s daily press briefings

The Maine Center for Disease Control instated new rules for its daily COVID-19 press briefing aimed at slowing the spread of the disease on Monday.

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Mar 23, 2020

Maine GOP to continue petition drive to block ranked-choice voting bangordailynews.com/2020/03/23/pol via

Maine GOP to continue petition drive to block ranked-choice voting

The Maine Republican Party said its petition drive will continue as much of the state shuts down due to the coronavirus.

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Mar 23, 2020

Susan Collins hits Democrats as coronavirus stimulus talks boil over in Congress bangordailynews.com/2020/03/23/pol via

Susan Collins hits Democrats as coronavirus stimulus talks boil over in Congress

Washington is laboring under the size and scope of a rescue package that's more ambitious than any in recent times — larger than the 2008 bank bailout and 2009 recovery act combined.

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Mar 21, 2020

How a Coldplay-quoting doctor became the face of Maine’s coronavirus response bangordailynews.com/2020/03/21/pol via

How a Coldplay-quoting doctor became the face of Maine’s coronavirus response

Through daily press briefings and memorable analogies, the Maine CDC director is the public face of the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Mar 20, 2020

Shortage of a vital compound is to blame for lack of coronavirus tests bangordailynews.com/2020/03/20/pol via

Shortage of a vital compound is to blame for lack of coronavirus tests

A tight supply of a key substance needed to test for the novel coronavirus is causing Maine to look to private laboratories and the university system for more, health officials said Friday.

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Mar 19, 2020

Coronavirus could overwhelm Maine hospitals. Social distancing can save beds and lives. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/19/pol via

Coronavirus could overwhelm Maine hospitals. Social distancing can save beds and lives.

It has been only a week since Maine reported its first cases of the new coronavirus. The number of positive tests has steadily increased since then, allowing the state to have some idea of what to...

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Mar 19, 2020

Maine Democrats call for Trump administration to extend BIW shipbuilding deadlines bangordailynews.com/2020/03/19/pol via

Maine Democrats call for Trump administration to extend BIW shipbuilding deadlines

The lawmakers said that maintaining a normal operation to meet those deadlines is no longer safe or realistic for the Bath shipyard during the coronavirus outbreak.

Mar 18, 2020

Maine CDC plans to keep hiring while stretching to fight the coronavirus bangordailynews.com/2020/03/18/pol via

Maine CDC plans to keep hiring while stretching to fight the coronavirus

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention was slowly filling vacancies after years of budget cuts when the outbreak of the new coronavirus reached the United States earlier this year.

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Mar 18, 2020

Janet Mills orders Maine eateries closed for dine-in service, bans gatherings of more than 10 bangordailynews.com/2020/03/18/new via

Maine could see more drastic measures on public gatherings due to coronavirus today bangordailynews.com/2020/03/18/pol via

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Mar 17, 2020

Maine lawmakers set to pass coronavirus response bill allowing town meeting delays bangordailynews.com/2020/03/17/pol via

Maine virus response bill allows town meeting delays, gives Mills power over June primary

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and legislative leaders were set to release a sweeping response to the new coronavirus on Tuesday, allowing municipalities and schools to operate on current budgets through...

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Mar 17, 2020

Maine CDC director says feds should release more medical equipment from stockpile bangordailynews.com/2020/03/17/pol via

Maine CDC director says feds should release more medical equipment from stockpile

Maine had made requests to the federal government for additional protective equipment early on, which the Maine CDC hopes to receive soon.

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Mar 17, 2020

Democrat vying to unseat Susan Collins isolating after possible coronavirus exposure bangordailynews.com/2020/03/17/pol via

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Maine state employees’ union wants Mills to send many workers home due to virus outbreak bangordailynews.com/2020/03/16/pol via

Maine state employees’ union wants Mills to send many workers home due to virus outbreak

The union representing more than 12,000 Maine state employees called on the governor to end nonessential government services because of the coronavirus outbreak on Monday.

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Mar 16, 2020

Janet Mills and Maine lawmakers reach tentative spending deal prompted by coronavirus bangordailynews.com/2020/03/16/pol via

Janet Mills and Maine lawmakers reach pared-back spending deal prompted by coronavirus

Maine Gov. Janet Mills and legislative leaders reached a tentative Monday deal on a scaled-back spending proposal that focuses on health care spending amid a coronavirus outbreak that has prompted...

Mar 16, 2020

A busy two days are coming in Augusta. Maine’s coronavirus response will be the topic. bangordailynews.com/2020/03/16/pol via

A busy two days are coming in Augusta. Maine’s coronavirus response will be the topic.

The legislative flurry comes on the heels of increasingly drastic action in Maine, most of which has not been mandated by the governor.

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Mar 15, 2020

Maine DEP releases draft permit for CMP controversial power line project bangordailynews.com/2020/03/15/pol via

Maine DEP releases draft permit for CMP controversial power line project

Staff at Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection released a draft permit for Central Maine Power’s controversial power line through western Maine on Friday afternoon.

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Mar 15, 2020

Janet Mills wants to allow Maine workers affected by coronavirus to collect unemployment bangordailynews.com/2020/03/15/pol via

Janet Mills wants to allow Maine workers affected by coronavirus to collect unemployment

Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced on Sunday that she would submit an emergency bill to extend unemployment benefits to people affected by the new coronavirus, including those who work for closed...

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Mar 15, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak is interfering with Maine campaign activities bangordailynews.com/2020/03/15/pol via

The coronavirus outbreak is interfering with Maine campaign activities

Maine candidates and political organizations are canceling events and suspending door-to-door canvassing in response to the new coronavirus in a move that aligns with public health recommendations...

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Mar 14, 2020

Maine Legislature to adjourn for 2020 on Tuesday because of coronavirus bangordailynews.com/2020/03/13/pol via

Maine Legislature to adjourn for 2020 on Tuesday because of coronavirus

Leaders in the Maine Legislature abruptly announced on Friday that the 2020 session would end nearly a month early on Tuesday after the state recorded its first two positive tests for the new...

Mar 13, 2020

CMP-aligned group wants Maine court to bar anti-corridor question from 2020 ballot bangordailynews.com/2020/03/13/pol via

CMP-aligned group wants Maine court to bar anti-corridor question from 2020 ballot

A Franklin County resident allied with Central Maine Power asked a Maine court on Friday to overturn a decision by Secretary of State Matt Dunlap to green-light a question for the November ballot to...

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Mar 13, 2020

Susan Collins criticizes federal coronavirus response, urging Trump to ‘step back’ bangordailynews.com/2020/03/13/pol via

Susan Collins criticizes federal coronavirus response, urging Trump to ‘step back’

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins criticized the federal government’s handling of the novel coronavirus outbreak on Friday, characterizing the Trump administration’s messaging as “inconsistent” while saying...

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Mar 13, 2020

After the state’s first coronavirus case, here’s what we’re expecting in Maine today bangordailynews.com/2020/03/13/pol via

After the state's first coronavirus case, here's what we're expecting in Maine today

With one confirmed case of the coronavirus in the state, Maine is at a critical juncture to react.

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Mar 12, 2020

Maine Legislature to hold closed sessions amid coronavirus concerns bangordailynews.com/2020/03/12/pol via