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QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Those kinds of restrictions essentially are forcing people to consume a certain amount of land that they may or may not want to.” 

— Jim Siodla, a Colby College economics professor, who co-wrote a new study with the Maine Policy Institute on the effect of municipal common zoning laws on housing prices.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports went into effect just after midnight Tuesday. His move has raised fears of higher inflation and the prospect of a devastating trade war. Here in Maine, those tariffs may drive up the prices of heating oil, gas and craft beer, among other impacts.

Here’s why more Romanians may be crossing Maine’s international border. The Eastern Europeans now make up one of the largest groups encountered by Border Patrol agents in northern Maine, second only to Mexicans. 

Town zoning rules are adding thousands to Maine home prices. A new report is the first of its kind in pinpointing the actual costs across different cities and towns.

Delta is adding seasonal flights from Bangor to Detroit. What season is that, you might ask?

A new group has offered to take over picking up discarded syringes in Bangor. The work is especially important in the midst of a growing HIV cluster within Penobscot County.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE

MAINE IN PICTURES

Commanding Officer Lt. Brian L. Harris of Maine State Police Troop F holds  purple silk roses. Each musher in the Can-Am 250 carried a rose from the start in Fort Kent to the Portage checkpoint to honor Maine State Police dog Preacher, who died in the line of duty in Portage. (Courtesy of Paradis Photography)

FROM THE OPINION PAGES

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday. (AP Photo/) Credit: Mstyslav Chernov / AP

“Trump and Vance fail to understand that diplomacy is not capitulating to your enemy and groveling to your supposed allies.”

Editorial: Trump aligns America with dictators and tyrants, while turning his back on democracy

LIFE IN MAINE

One of the Oscar nominees on Sunday had a score composed by a Wabanaki musician. Mali Obomsawin, a jazz and folk musician who grew up in Farmington and member of the Abenaki First Nation at Odanak, penned the music for the documentary “Sugarcane.”

A family fishing weekend landed this South Berwick 7-year-old a big fish. “It was big,” Cora Belle Holton said. “I’m going to try to get a bigger one next year.”

See the best pictures from the basketball tournament state championships. From unlikely matchups to some truly spectacular upsets, Bangor Daily News photographers captured the action over the weekend.