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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— John McDonough, a professor of public health practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the growth of private equity interest in health care over the past decade. Many states, including Maine, are pushing back on acquisitions that critics say could gut health care infrastructure.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Susan Collins is backing a referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students. The Republican senator’s office said she signed onto the petition because she agrees with President Donald Trump’s interpretation of Title IX.
Here are five homes in Bangor that sold this month. Sales paint a picture of what prospective buyers are looking for — and what they can afford.
A Hampden man convicted of murdering his sister-in-law said his 43-year sentence is unfair. Philip Clark challenged his 2019 conviction Monday, arguing that he had ineffective counsel during his jury trial.
A salvage firm is trying to find the insurer of a ship that sank off MDI in the 1890s. JJM LLC is hoping to prove that the cargo schooner was not legally abandoned.
New state laws are tackling private equity’s growing role in health care. Maine passed a law to impose a one-year moratorium on all private equity or real estate investment trust purchases of hospitals.
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
- Only 2 Maine districts make the cut for school construction funds
- Best friends open hair salon in downtown Bangor
- Man arrested after Clifton standoff
- Investors sue Maine over commercial solar farm law
- Here’s where to find a free Thanksgiving dinner in Aroostook
- Entrepreneur fills final Houlton council seat
- Calais charter amendments to take effect Jan. 1
- Calais isn’t interested in bailing out Washington County
- Downeast Salmon Federation names new director of development and communications
- Former midcoast dairy to become housing and conserved farmland
- Rockland school bus driver who hit and killed boy had OUI conviction
- Maine’s best-known marijuana advocate, Don Christen, dies at 72
- Maine town repairs a dam to prevent ‘catastrophic’ failure
- In a Maine school district ‘mired in crisis,’ residents call for accountability
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“I’m not ashamed of this belief or of writing this letter, so I don’t feel the need to hide behind a mask.”
LIFE IN MAINE
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