Public policy director Cate Blackford joins Senior Organizer Esther Pew to chat about paid family medical leave in Maine, as well as the positive and negative aspects of Gov. Janet Mills' recently ...

Maine Republicans have only been in power in Augusta for two of the past 50 years (they have only held the trifecta of the ...

A new program aims to ensure rural Mainers can take full advantage of expanding high-speed internet service. Grant ...

Use of Maine’s yellow flag law has grown dramatically since the Lewiston mass shootings: law enforcement agencies completed ...

A newly proposed voter suppression referendum, if implemented, could make voting more challenging for older Mainers, rural ...

Ben Chin and Esther Pew are back for the first podcast episode of 2025! The hosts discuss two petitions — regarding voting rights and a red flag law — that will potentially be on the 2025 ballot. " I' ...

Medical debt will no longer appear on credit reports, according to a new rule the federal Consumer Financial Protection ...

When I sat down with my editor at the end of 2024 to chat about writing for the Beacon in 2025, she asked me what I care ...

A lack of reliable transportation for some women veterans in Maine is preventing them from getting the services they need.

Josh Keefe is a government accountability reporter for The Maine Monitor with a focus on Maine’s child welfare system and indigent defense system. Previously, he worked as an investigative reporter ...