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Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Maine Trust for Local News welcomes new reporters, roles
Jun. 16—The Maine Trust for Local News has hired new full-time reporters and reshuffled others to tackle state and community news coverage across its publications. The Maine Trust is the parent company of the Portland Press Herald, Sun Journal in Lewiston, Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Morning Sentinel in Waterville, Times Record in Brunswick and more than a dozen southern and western Maine online publications and newsletters. Katie Langley has been hired to cover Brunswick and Topsham for the Times Record. She started as the weekend reporter at the Press Herald in June 2024 and began her new role in April. Dana Richie, a former Press Herald intern, has joined the Southern Maine community reporting staff, covering South Portland, Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth. She also will publish the weekly digital newsletter the Cape-SoPo-Scarborough Now. Richie is a recent graduate of Brown University. She started in June, taking over for Drew Johnson, who is the Press Herald's new night reporter. Johnson had been reporting for the Southern Maine weeklies for four years. Daniel Kool has moved from the Press Herald's night desk to the business desk, where he covers utilities — electricity, gas and broadband — as well as the impact of tariffs, and general assignment business stories. He joined the paper in 2024. Before moving to Maine, he worked as a metro correspondent for The Boston Globe. Next month, Reuben Schafir, another former Press Herald intern, will return with a new role covering Indigenous communities in Maine through Report for America. He has spent the last three years reporting in southwest Colorado. The changes are just the latest for the news organization, which has, over the last few months, announced a series of leadership shifts, including the retirement of longtime editor John Richardson and the hiring of Gina Kaufman to oversee criminal justice, courts and health coverage. Reporter Eric Russell and assistant web editor Alex McCann have both been promoted to news editor. Copy the Story Link
The Hill
25-04-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Maine governor says no plans to challenge Collins for Senate
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) said in an interview aired on Friday that she does not plan to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for Senate next year, though she didn't entirely rule it out. 'I'm not planning to do anything right now, I'm just – I'm not planning to run for anything,' Mills said in an interview with Maine Trust For Local News. 'Things change week to week, month to month, but I'm not … at this moment, I'm not planning to run for another office. I love being governor, despite the hard times we've had,' she added. Pressed again, Mills said she was 'planning to keep being governor as best I can, do my job as best I can.' Mills is seen as one of the Democrats' best hopes against Collins, who is up for reelection next year, which would be her sixth term. Democrats tried to oust Collins last cycle with former Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D), but fell nine points short. A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released on Thursday suggested that while most Democratic respondents want to see Mills challenge Collins for Senate next year (79 percent), only 40 percent of all respondents support a Senate run for the governor. Still, Mills performed better in that survey than Democratic Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, with 36 percent and 29 percent of respondents, respectively, wanting to see them run against Collins. Golden, a conservative Democrat, was the preferred candidate among Republicans polled: Twenty-five percent of Republicans said they wanted to see him run for her seat. Senate Leadership Fund Chair Cory Gardner, a former Colorado Republican senator himself, responded to Mills' announcement, calling it a 'recruitment failure' for Democrats. 'Fresh off Senator Durbin's decision to retire and three other senior Senate Democrats calling it quits, Janet Mills clearly recognizes what the American people have long known: the Democratic Party is shattered beyond repair,' Gardner said. 'While Democrats reel from this recruitment failure and squabble about the direction of their party, Senator Susan Collins continues to deliver results for the people of Maine with effective and proven leadership,' he added.
