Mills outraises LePage in latest campaign donation period
The Monitor's data visualization provides a deeper look at the donations to the Democratic incumbent and her Republican challenger.
Maine’s largest private electricity supplier renews legal battle over its deceptive practices
Electricity Maine and other private suppliers cost residents $150 million over the last eight years.
How record sums of money have shaped Maine’s 2020 elections
The Maine Monitor investigated campaign finance trends in this year’s state and federal races. Here are our top findings.
Follow the Money: Maine State Campaign Finance Tracker
Campaign spending provides one of the only concrete windows into party jockeying for power in Maine's Legislature. Explore trends in fundraising and spending with the Maine Monitor's interactive data dashboards.
Follow the Money: Maine Federal Campaign Finance Tracker
Explore trends in fundraising and spending for Maine's federal elections in 2020 using The Maine Monitor's interactive data dashboards.
The growing crisis in the Maine newspaper industry
For the past two decades, Maine's newspapers jostled between periods of secular industry decline and widespread economic calamity. From 2000 to 2018, six in 10 newspaper publishing jobs have disappeared and wages have grown sluggishly at best. Only paper mills, semiconductor manufacturers, wood-product makers and vocational rehabilitation service providers shed jobs at a faster rate.
Coronavirus in Maine: Data Dashboard
Explore trends in Maine's COVID-19 cases by county, age and sex of the afflicted individuals and more in charts updated daily with data from Maine's CDC.