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Progressive Portland @ProgPortME

We mobilize grassroots action for progressive policies backed by the majority of #portlandme residents, voters and taxpayers. @progportme@mastodon.online

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Progressive Portland@ProgPortME
16 Mar 2025
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🏘️A full-time worker in Maine must earn $28.42 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. The median hourly wage of workers in Maine is $24.19. newscentermaine.com/article/…

New report highlights increasing gap between wages and housing costs in Maine

A full-time worker in Maine must earn $28.42 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment, this year's Out of Reach report shows.

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🏘️If you reside in public housing and start having trouble paying your rent, there are options available to you before you face eviction. mainemorningstar.com/2025/08…

Are You a Public Housing Resident Behind on Rent? Received an Eviction Notice? Here’s What to Know....

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Bangor Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. People...

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Senator Susan Collins Introduces Senator Jeff Sessions at Judiciary Committee Hearing on His...

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Susan Collins joined Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) in introducing...

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🏘️ Trump's budget will slash HUD's budget 43.6% and slash rental assistance 42.8%. 55,400 Maine people (senior citizens, people with disabilities, children) rely on federal rental assistance. Act! nlihc.org/resource/trump-adm…

Trump Administration’s “Skinny” Budget Request Foreshadows Massive Cuts, Changes to HUD Programs –...

President Donald Trump released a “skinny” budget request on May 2 indicating the Administration will pursue cuts that would decimate HUD’s vital affordable housing, homelessness, and community...

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🏘️ Perhaps tariffs and construction costs, interest rates and buyer hesitancy in an economic environment with a high level of uncertainty have something to do with it. mainebiz.biz/article/escalat…

Escalating costs and zoning restrictions sideline Portland housing projects

Three downtown housing projects were approved and developers were poised to move forward earlier this year, but all three developers now say their projects are on hold.

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🏘️ There used to be a thing called a reasonable return on investment. Perhaps investors are seeking much, much more than what is reasonable. bostonglobe.com/2025/05/05/b…

‘The numbers should work, and they just don’t’: Is Cambridge’s affordable housing rule backfiring?...

Housing is so expensive to build right now that some developers say the city's requirement that 20 percent of units be aside at below-market rents is making otherwise profitable projects too costly.

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🏘️ Perhaps constructions costs are expensive and interests rates are high. bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/b…

A 10,000-unit housing development at Suffolk Downs is on hold indefinitely. Here’s why. - The...

The construction pause is a testament to how high interest rates and materials costs are preventing developers from building much-needed projects.

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Reminder: Today's nationwide mobilization. Monument Square 11-1. mobilize.us/handsoff/

Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

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Progressive Portland@ProgPortME
2 Apr 2025
🚨 Please take a moment to read this important notice about this Saturday's nationwide Hands Off! mobilization to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk's illegal billionaire power-grab. mobilize.us/handsoff/event/7…
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🚨 Please take a moment to read this important notice about this Saturday's nationwide Hands Off! mobilization to stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk's illegal billionaire power-grab. mobilize.us/handsoff/event/7…
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🎒 "As a District, we will not deviate from our path of supporting all of our students and staff to achieve at high levels. This will require us to dig deep into our data, to investigate differences in outcomes and act aggressively to address those gaps." portlandschools.org/superint…

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Parents and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, a national disability rights group, sue Trump for violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. propublica.org/article/depar…

Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights...

The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth...

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Commonspace email: info@commonspacemaine.org. Also, contact the @CityPortland family shelter director Mike Guthrie: 207-482-5206. newscentermaine.com/article/…

Portland nonprofit scrambles to find housing for dozens as shelter risks closure

The shelter currently houses 67 people who make up 22 families. Many of the asylum seekers living in the shelter are women and small children, even babies.

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The Department of Education was established by the U.S. Congress and only the U.S. Congress can dissolve it. Contact the House of Representatives: (202) 225-3121. Contact the Senate: (202) 224-3121. nea.org/nea-today/all-news-a…

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4 Mar 2025
Cheverus High School will not be able to use pesticides to combat a grub infestation that has been damaging its athletic fields. wgme.com/news/local/cheverus…

Cheverus High School denied pesticide waiver amid grub infestation concerns

The school argued that organic options have not been effective in stopping the infestation.

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American Immigration Council@immcouncil
2 Oct 2024
Removing one million people per year in a mass deportation campaign, including arrests, processing, detention, and removal, could cost over $967.9 billion over 10 years. Is this really the best use of our resources? Find out more: immcouncil.co/mass-deportati…

Mass Deportation - American Immigration Council

The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American....

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City of Portland, Maine@CityPortland
2 Oct 2024
NEW! We are now accepting applications for the latest round of job creation grants. Visit portlandmaine.gov/JobCreatio… to read the full details apply. 📆 Applications must be received by 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟱. #PortlandMaine #PortlandMe
Portland Maine Housing Economic Development logo, New Job Creation Grants Available | Open Sign graphic | Apply by Friday, November 15 | Visit portlandmaine.gov/JobCreation to learn more and apply.

ALT Portland Maine Housing Economic Development logo, New Job Creation Grants Available | Open Sign graphic | Apply by Friday, November 15 | Visit portlandmaine.gov/JobCreation to learn more and apply.

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"The prevalence of firearms in the U.S., not mental illness, is driving the surge in gun deaths across the country." #portlandme mainemorningstar.com/2024/09…
A new study finds the prevalence of firearms in the United States, not mental illness, is the driving force in the number of firearm-related deaths. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)

ALT A new study finds the prevalence of firearms in the United States, not mental illness, is the driving force in the number of firearm-related deaths. (Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)

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Two of the @CityPortland's three community pools will be closed due to the need for maintenance and inadequate funding from the city to do this work. #portlandme pressherald.com/2024/07/26/p…

Portland’s Kiwanis Pool closing for renovations, but the project is $5 million short on funding

Two of the city's 3 community pools soon will be shut down for planned upgrades, leaving area swimmers with limited options.

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City of Portland, Maine@CityPortland
16 Jul 2024
🚨Due to the high temperatures 🌡️ today (Tues, July 16) and tomorrow, (Wed, July 17) the @PortPublicLibME will serve as a cooling center. Please visit them if you need to cool off. Visit portlandlibrary.com/location… for hours. #mewx #portlandme
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