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Sen. Susan Collins said she made the best decision she could on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
— The Republican senator voted for the conservative justice in 2018, insisting that the conservative justice told her he viewed Roe v. Wade as "settled law." In June, he voted as part of a 6-3 Supreme Court majority to overturn it, calling the case wrongly decided.
— "I made the best decision I could based on the information I had at the time," Collins told CNN on Monday.
— Collins told The New York Times last month that she felt Kavanaugh misled her on the issue after the paper obtained Collins' private interview with the justice during his confirmation. When Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, announced his opposition to Kavanaugh in September 2018, he said the justice was likely to overturn Roe v. Wade or at least "whittle away its protections."
The governor is attending the dedication of a Lewiston mixed-income housing development on Tuesday.
— Gov. Janet Mills will help open Gauvreau Place, a 35-unit development for people and families.
— She is trying to make housing a major issue in her race with LePage after entering office by releasing housing bonds that he blocked and amid a stark housing crisis centered in southern Maine.
— There was some division around the major housing bill of 2022, a watered-down omnibus proposal championed by House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford, that was resisted by a coalition of Republicans and municipal interests and is not expected to have a quick effect. |
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What we're reading
— Embattled University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy got a one-year contract extension on Monday from the board of trustees with tighter terms that acknowledge recent controversies, including the bungled search for the president of the system's Augusta campus.
— President Joe Biden's drug policy czar singled out Maine for one of the best opioid responses in the country with the crisis raging worse than ever.
— The names of health care workers who sued the Democratic governor over her 2021 vaccine mandate were made public this week after a successful lawsuit from the Portland Press Herald and sister papers.
— A new Husson University program aims to help Maine replace a wave of retiring game wardens. |
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| Nate St. Jean gets a look at the Ring Nebula through a Dobsonian telescope sporting a large, 15-inch mirror on Saturday night in Brunswick during a star party put on by the Southern Maine Astronomers organization. (BDN photo by Troy R. Bennett) |
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| đź“· Lead photo: Former Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling holds a sign during a press conference at City Hall on Nov. 4, 2020. (BDN photo by Troy R. Bennett) |
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