Good morning. Temperatures will be in the mid-50s with sunny skies throughout the state.
Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.
Here’s where the Maine Legislature candidates stand on key issues
With less than two weeks to go until the 2018 Election, the Bangor Daily News put the same eight questions to every candidate on the ballot in each of the 35 Maine Senate districts and the 151 Maine House of Representatives districts, getting their stances on the economy, health care, infrastructure and other issues. Here are their answers.
How Maine’s gubernatorial candidates would manage the economy
Maine’s four gubernatorial candidates have released their rough economic roadmaps, with Republican Shawn Moody targeting “red tape” and Democrat Janet Mills leaning on a battery of grant and loan programs.
The competing plans are often vague but fit the candidates. Moody, who founded a chain of collision centers, wants to streamline permitting and tighten spending. Mills, the attorney general, is heavier on grant, loan and financing targeted toward specific goals.
This family takes off-the-grid to the extreme
This Belfast family embraces the kind of simple life that might have been more familiar to people 200 years ago than today. Instead of electricity, they light their nights with candles. They cook and heat their home with a wood stove, keep food cool in a root cellar, use an outhouse instead of indoor plumbing and travel from place to place via bicycle and public transportation instead of car.
But this simple home, where the quiet of an autumn day isn’t broken by the hum of a motor or the pings and whirrs of a computer, is rich in other things, they said.
“Limitation creates abundance,” Ethan Hughes said. “That’s what we’re not taught in a consumer society.”
Prosecutors want to see John D. Williams’ ambulance papers
Lawyers representing the man accused of killing Cpl. Eugene Cole of Somerset County Sheriff’s Office in April say police beat an apparent confession out of their client.
Now prosecutors from the attorney general’s office want to see records kept by the private ambulance firm that treated Williams at the Waterville Police Station.
Williams is being held without bail at the Maine State Prison. He is scheduled for trial in a Portland court in June.
Do this: Your Maine weekend guide
Happy Halloween weekend! Brian Wilson is playing “Pet Sounds” at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Saturday, while the seventh annual Zombie Walk will take place earlier that day downtown. In Portland, the annual Halloween-themed Prince tribute night with Dean Ford and the Beautiful Ones takes place Friday at the State Theatre, and don’t forget it’s the final weekend of the Fright at the Fort at Fort Knox State Park in Prospect.
In other news…
Maine
Nor’easter will drench Maine with rain this weekend
Adoption offers pour in for dog who’s been stuck at Maine shelter for 4 years
A question worth pondering: Why do I hunt?
Bangor
NY man arrested in Newport trying to cash phony $3,000 check
All the damaged Bangor apartments that tax dollars pay for
Chinese firm completes purchase of Old Town Mill
Business
In Hancock, derelict and toxin-laden land is slowly coming back to life
Heating oil tops $3 per gallon as fuel prices continue to escalate
Maine shipyard to get $55M crane
Politics
Grohman calls for state probe into ‘false’ claims made by Republican opponent
Alan Caron will decide whether to drop out from governor’s race after debates
How beavers became a campaign issue in a Bangor-area Maine Senate race
Opinion
Arkansas shows what Maine can expect from Medicaid work requirements
Trump administration is trying to codify transgender people out of existence
More tax cuts for the wealthy don’t help small-business owners like me
Sports
South Portland backs out of football playoff game over player safety concerns
Hodgdon teacher becomes finalist for ‘Most Valuable Coach’ national award with $50,000 first prize
North high school football playoffs look more unpredictable than usual
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