QUOTE OF THE DAY

“You already know the person you’re pursuing. He hasn’t committed a forcible felony. Then why are you risking other people’s lives?”

— Tom Gleason, a retired police captain and member of the advisory board for a nonprofit that aims to reduce deaths from police chases. Gleason and another expert said a chase that left two people dead in July shouldn’t have happened.

TODAY’S TOP MAINE STORIES

The police chase before a double fatal Bangor crash last month shouldn’t have happened, experts say. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office has a 15-page policy outlining how and when a police pursuit should take place. As in many such policies, the immediate danger is a big factor.

The Bar Harbor businessman fighting cruise ships isn’t done yet. Charles Sidman’s efforts to curtail the ships led his detractors to post stickers around town with an expletive followed by his name.

A single Republican megadonor is funding a Maine lawmaker’s political operation. A biography at the think tank where he serves as a board member says he “believes we are in a cold civil war and that our enemy — what he calls the ‘Woke regime’ — are winning, in large measure because Republican leaders have yet to engage.”

A state oversight board narrowed its inquiry into alleged misconduct by a Maine surgeon. A 2022 investigation by the Bangor Daily News found that Dr. Ian Reight rose to a leadership position despite at least five women submitting complaints about him.

MAINE IN PICTURES

Sally Levi serves ice cream and a “pup cup” to customers at her ice cream shack, Newty’s, in Rockland on Tuesday. Newty’s has won over skeptics in the neighborhood, who initially objected to a business in a residential area. Credit: Jules Walkup / BDN

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

“We hope that when Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visits the homestead and meets with community members in Newcastle on Thursday, she sees why this Maine landmark — and the life and legacy of Frances Perkins — are worthy of this federal recognition.”

Editorial: Frances Perkins homestead worthy of national monument status

LIFE IN MAINE

The state wants your opinion on protecting farmland from solar farms. Five years ago, Maine made it easier to build ground-based solar projects, which have multiplied across the state, sometimes on land once valued for agriculture.

“Black bass, known as smallmouth or bronzeback in Maine, become particularly aggressive toward topwater baits during the dog days of August,” Bill Graves writes and shares tips on how to bug for them.

Mainers are so scared of browntail moths they’re killing other caterpillars. Tent caterpillars can become innocent victims in the ongoing effort to control browntails.