Erin Rhoda

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Erin Rhoda is a deputy editor at The Maine Monitor. She previously worked at the Bangor Daily News for 13 years, starting as the newspaper’s editorial page editor before helping form the newspaper’s investigative team, Maine Focus, in 2014.

In addition to being the editor of Maine Focus, she wrote stories centering on domestic and sexual violence, addiction, police accountability, public health and the future of rural communities. She believes in the power of stories to connect people and change lives. Erin lives in Bangor.

Contact Erin with questions, concerns or story ideas: erMEMONin themainemonitor org

candid photos of the three candidates for governor overlayed on a closeup of markers in a classroom.

How candidates for Maine governor want to turn around education

Each lamented the decline of standardized test scores and shared differing ideas for how the state government should respond.

ByErin Rhoda Megan Blonigen

October 8, 2026