Maine Green Party - In Freeport, on the busiest Saturday of the holiday shopping season, the Maine Green Independent Party joined Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Maine Coalition for Palestine, the Communist Party of Maine, the Party for Socialism & Liberation and others, to raise our voices and demand an end to US complicity in the Gaza genocide and US military aggression and sanctions in Venezuela. s |
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From the Maine Monitor: Over the past five years, the attorney general’s office has secured for Maine more than $260 million in settlements with major pharmaceutical companies accused of “supercharging” the opioid epidemic. Yet information about how the attorney general’s office is itself making spending decisions has been limited. How does it spend the money?
There are around 3,400 enrolled Passamaquoddy tribal members, but less
than 7% of tribal members speak the language fluently, and the numbers
have dropped significantly in recent years. Of the fluent speakers
surveyed, 80% were 70 or older in communities where the average life
expectancy is 49. More than 10 fluent speakers died in 2025. But elders
say it’s not too late to save their mother tongue, and a younger generation is stepping up to help
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to halt changes to a grant program that could leave thousands of people across Maine and the United States homeless. U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy ruled on a lawsuit filed by attorneys general and governors from 20 states, including Maine, that challenged the Trump administration’s proposed limits on support for long-term housing.
Samuel Dunning, a Brunswick native, stars in the new comedy/ science fiction film "Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox." (Courtesy of Stimson Snead) For Samuel Dunning, seeing his film “Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox” on the shelves of the Bull Moose on Maine Street in Brunswick was a full-circle moment.
“One of the biggest reasons I got into movies and filmmaking was because of Bull Moose,” the Brunswick-born actor said.
“In high school, and even younger, I’d go to their dollar DVD bucket and just grab a couple random things and see what I got,” he said.
Written and directed by Stimson Snead, the comedy/science fiction movie follows Tim Travers, a mad scientist determined to solve a time travel “paradox” by traveling back in time in one-minute intervals to continuously kill his younger self. Eventually, he amasses endless versions of himself, creating a fast-talking team of Tims, each with different personality traits ranging from redeemable to egomaniacal.