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QUOTE OF THE DAY
— 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’s might be the only Sea Grant program cut by Trump
- Maine lawmaker’s posts hang over proposal to ban ‘doxxing’ children
- Janet Mills says Maine’s transgender athlete policies are ‘worthy of a debate’
- Maine will continue to offer gender designation ‘X’ on driver’s licenses
- Legislature considers push for MaineCare to cover doula services
- Maine lawmakers launch probe into late child care payments
- Lobstermen can sue environmental group for defamation, judge says
- Man arrested after rollover crash at Bangor gas station
- Educators propose new school for Aroostook teens struggling with addiction
- Bucksport High School’s robotics team ranked 1st in the nation
- Man charged in Norridgewock killing
- Man dies after 2 cars hit him in Portland
- John Bapst boys hockey earns berth in B North final, while Kents Hill ousts Bangor in A quarters
- UMaine hockey takes impressive hold to complete weekend sweep of Vermont
- Daughter of UMaine Hobey Baker Award winner leads BC to quarterfinal win over UMaine
- Cooper Flagg and No. 2 Duke beat Wake Forest 93-60
MAINE IN PICTURES
FROM THE OPINION PAGES
“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.
