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Enjoy Two Days Of Music At Portland Maine’s Back Cove Music & Arts Festival
94.9 WHOM - Maine
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July 3, 2025
Get ready for an unforgettable weekend of music, community, and coastal charm at the Back Cove Music & Arts Festival, making its debut on August 2–3. Where and When The very first Back Cove Music & Arts Festival is happening at 164 Baxter Blvd, in...
Coalition urges appeals court not to end humanitarian immigration program
Capital District Times - New York
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July 2, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James has co-led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in submitting a brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The brief requests the court to maintain an order preventing the federal...
Maine college student claims professor is discriminating against her based on political views
WMTW 8 - Maine
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July 2, 2025
A student at Eastern Maine Community College says an opinion paper on the Second Amendment she wrote for a class was met with pushback from a professor who wrote in an email, "you clearly do not care about people as much as you care about...
Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Maine could lose legal protections under Trump administration rule
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 2, 2025
President Trump's efforts to terminate legal protections for Haitians in the U.S. could impact hundreds of people in Maine, according to immigrant rights groups. The move, currently on pause following a federal court ruling, would terminate a...
Mills won't sign contentious bill dealing with federal immigration enforcement
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 2, 2025
Gov. Janet Mills won't sign a controversial bill that would restrict how state and local police collaborate with federal immigration agents. The bill, LD 1971, would prohibit police in Maine from stopping, interrogating, or detaining someone based...
Maine joins lawsuit alleging federal government of using Medicaid data in immigration enforcement
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 2, 2025
Maine is among 20 states that have filed suit against the federal government for allegedly sharing confidential personal data of Medicaid clients to use in immigration enforcement actions. The complaint alleges that Medicaid records shared with...
In Maine, Students Choose a Hike Over Detention–and Feel the Benefits
Good News Network
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July 2, 2025
credit – Giulia Squillace and Getty for Unsplash + Getting in fights, texting too much in class, skipping school—they are the kinds of stories that the parents of most high schools will have heard of before, and know the ending of. But at Morse...
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ bill will slash health care for legal immigrants to pay for tax cuts
Arizona Mirror
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July 2, 2025
Provisions in the new tax and spending bill passed by the U.S. Senate early Tuesday would go even further than the House bill in removing health care and other benefits from immigrants with legal status. The House version of the massive tax and...
MAINE-LY GARDENING: What’s in the garden? Beans
The Town Line - Maine
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July 2, 2025
Beans are so easy to grow. The littlest gardeners can plant them and see them come up quickly. There are so many varieties and ways to serve them that it’s no wonder that lots of gardeners grow several types: for eating freshly picked through the...
Choice Tax Breaks: The GOP’s Federal Plan to Transform Education
KMVU FOX26 - Oregon
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Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, will be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic states that for...
This Hidden Maine Destination Has the Best Pizza In the State—and None of the Crowds
AOL
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Education Images/Getty Images Main Street Penobscot Bay on Blue Hill Peninsula from the Pentagoet Inn in Castine, Maine. Key Points Tinder Hearth in the rural Maine town of Brooksville makes some of the world's best pizza. The husband-wife team...
Maine's congressional delegation rallies to save Job Corps centers
Mainebiz - Oregon
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Maine’s congressional delegation is opposing the recently announced closure of Job Corps centers both in the state and nationwide. The U.S. Department of Labor has said it plans to begin a “phased pause in operations” at the more than 120 centers...
How Trump’s big bill could affect women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans
PBS Frontline
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July 2, 2025
This article was originally published by The 19th. After more than 24 hours of deliberations, the U.S. Senate approved a sweeping package of tax cuts Tuesday that largely benefit the wealthy, financed by what advocates call “historic” cuts to...
West Coast states sue Trump admin for sharing Medicaid files with immigration enforcement
Jefferson Public Radio - Oregon
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July 2, 2025
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, alongside 13 other Democratic state attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for sharing Medicaid...
Calif AG Bonta Sues HHS, DHS for Handing Over Illegal Immigrants’ Medicaid Info to ICE
California Globe
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July 2, 2025
Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on Tuesday that California, along with 19 other states, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to provide access to individual personal health data to the...
U.S. Department of Education withholding $25 million in school grants from Maine
Maine Public Broadcasting Network
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July 2, 2025
The U.S. Department of Education is withholding an estimated $25 million in grant funding from Maine public schools "to ensure resources are spent in accordance with the President's priorities." The funds are part of a more than $6 billion freeze...
$25 million in federal funding on hold for Maine schools, summer programs
WMTW 8 - Maine
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July 2, 2025
$25 million in federal funding on hold for Maine schools, summer programs This is part of a nation-wide review of grants for federal programs to make sure they align with President Donald Trump's priorities. Updated: 2:53 PM EDT Jul 2, 2025...
Oldest lobster processing company in Maine files for bankruptcy
News Center Maine
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July 2, 2025
Cozy Harbor Seafood had been in business since 1980 and is the oldest and most experienced processor of lobster in the U.S., according to the company's website. PORTLAND, Maine — Maine's oldest lobster processing company filed for bankruptcy...
Gov. Mills will delay decision on limiting Maine police cooperation with ICE
FOX 23 - Maine
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AUGUSTA, Maine (BDN) -- Gov. Janet Mills will delay her decision on a proposal that pushes back against President Donald Trump’s policies by limiting Maine police and jails from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement officials in certain...
Maine voters to decide citizen initiatives on voter ID and extreme risk protection orders in November
Ballotpedia
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July 2, 2025
Welcome to the Wednesday, July 2, 2025, Brew. By: Lara Bonatesta Here’s what’s in store for you as you start your day: Maine voters to decide citizen initiatives on voter ID and extreme risk protection orders in November Oregon joins 45 other...