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Newsweek - A Republican-aligned super PAC mistakenly bought ads attacking Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson in the wrong state, the PAC confirmed to Newsweek on Monday. “During a recent independent expenditure, our media vendor mistakenly placed approximately $25,000 in digital advertising in the Portland, Oregon media market instead of Portland, Maine,” Defending Main Street wrote in a statement to Newsweek. Once the error was identified, the ads were “immediately stopped and corrected,” the statement said. The vendor is also refunding the PAC the full amount of the misplaced spend, and no donor funds will be lost.
Press
Herald - The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal
judge’s ruling and dismissed the Maine lobster industry’s defamation lawsuit
against a California aquarium on Friday. The Maine Lobstermen’s Association,
Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association and three lobster businesses sued the
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation in 2023 after the organization’s Seafood Watch
program put lobster on a “red list,” urging consumers to avoid the seafood. The
foundation had claimed measures in the fishery don’t do enough to reduce
entanglement or promote recovery of the critically endangered North Atlantic
right whale population.
The plaintiffs argued the
foundation made “false and defamatory statements” about the Maine lobster
industry’s practices and misled consumers and businesses about the fishery’s
“integrity.” In the lawsuit, they claimed to lose business, with some consumers
specifically citing the red listing.
The foundation moved to dismiss
the lawsuit, but a judge allowed the suit to advance in 2025. The 1st U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals overruled that decision Friday, and ordered the
lawsuit to be dismissed.
Press
Herald - Maine could experience an early peak of influenza cases this
flu season, public health experts said, urging residents to not delay getting
immunized. “We are seeing the beginnings of influenza circulating earlier than
we have had in recent seasons, said Anna Krueger, an epidemiologist with the
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
While flu season runs from October to May, typically cases
crest in late December, January or February. Cases peaked around the winter
holidays during last flu season, with a high of 1,347 reported for the week
ending Jan. 3, according to Maine CDC data.
So far this flu season, Maine has recorded 104 cases through
Oct. 3, compared to 36 for the same time period in 2025.
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Maine Morning Star - On ancestral Wabanaki
homelands now known as Freeport, Maulian Bryant, executive director of the
Wabanaki Alliance, told a crowd of tribal citizens and supporters of tribal
sovereignty that they are on the verge of a historic time.
“No more vetoes of large-scale
legislation that restores our tribal rights,” Bryant said earlier this month
during the alliance’s annual gathering known as Nihkaniyane, which means going
forward together.
With a new governor on the
horizon — particularly with Wabanaki Nations’-endorsed candidate Democrat
Hannah Pingree, who supports restoring full sovereignty, leading in polls —
Bryant and others are optimistic about the future of the Tribal-State relationship.
Outgoing Gov. Janet Mills, also a Democrat, had opposed sweeping change, though
during her two terms ushered through several piecemeal adjustments.
“No more compromises,” Bryant
said. “We’re going for it.”
The Wabanaki Nations have less
sovereignty than other federally recognized tribes because of a 1980 land
settlement agreement subjecting them to state laws in a manner more akin to
municipalities.