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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— Liza Fleming-Ives, executive director of Brunswick-based Genesis Community Loan Fund, which published a report on Tuesday finding that 20 of Maine’s 32 largest mobile home parks are owned by corporate investors.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Maine Democrats won’t suddenly change transgender laws in fight with President Donald Trump. Interviews with numerous Democratic lawmakers made clear that any nuanced debates or efforts to change Maine’s policies are not coming soon.
The Trump administration pulled funding from Maine’s prison system over a transgender inmate. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi made the announcement Tuesday morning during an appearance on “Fox and Friends.”
A lakeside estate could smash a price record in a Maine vacation hotspot. The main house, one of three dwellings, sleeps 14, has a wraparound porch, hot tub, home theater and wood-burning fireplace.
A Hawaiian shave ice food truck is opening a permanent Bangor shop. It’s been less than a year since owners Julianne and Andrew Sawyer launched the business as a seasonal food truck.
Brewer schools are considering a new $29 million budget. The 1.7 percent bump from last year is mostly due to increases to staff salaries and benefits.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Nebraska will continue with Maine to split electoral votes in presidential elections
- Judge weighs whether to release defendants before Maine supreme court appeal
- Most of Maine’s big mobile home parks are owned by out-of-state investors
- Regulators launch investigation into Versant Power’s management practices
- Northern Light Health’s president is retiring
- Maine lawmaker puts forth bill to legalize deer hunting on MDI
- Brooke Astor’s former estate on MDI listed for sale for $6.5M
- Fire damages 2nd midcoast motel that offered long-term rentals
- Midcoast residents turn to communal living amid housing crisis
- Man who died at Sugarloaf has been identified
- A naked man with a rifle emerged from the Maine woods asking for help
- Analysis: UMaine hockey needs to find scoring punch this offseason
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“I don’t for a nano-second believe that Donald Trump, who said ‘there are very fine people on both sides,’ after a white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, has a special place in his heart for Jews.”
Opinion: Trump administration should stop using charges of antisemitism as a pretext for repression
LIFE IN MAINE
An Ellsworth theater’s musical is back on track after adding Black actors to the cast. After having casting problems, trying to amend the script and then finding out they might have to cancel the show, officials at The Grand are moving ahead with “Big River.”
Longtime friends opened a home decor shop in Houlton. Diane Pryor Winship and Shannon Cibic’s pocket-sized Main Street shop is called Bittersweet Thyme.
Former game warden Chris Sargent recalls a surprising encounter with a first-time angler. “I asked the woman for her fishing license, fully expecting to be told she didn’t have one or was unaware she needed one,” he writes.