By Caitlin Andrews and Michael Shepherd of the Bangor Daily News
The Maine Republican Party could vote by month’s end to censure U.S. Sen. Susan Collins over her Saturday vote to convict former President Donald Trump of a Democratic impeachment charge, a move that infuriated many in the conservative grassroots. READ MORE
Tuesday's storm continues to look pretty messy, with snow and ice for much of the state. A storm that's bringing snow to Texas and Louisiana arrives here after midnight tonight. Everyone will start as snow. The storm center will likely track near or even just south of us, keeping cold air locked in at the ground, where temperatures should remain below freezing much of the storm.
But about 2,500 feet above the ground, there will be a layer of warmer air moving in during Tuesday morning. This will melt snowflakes into raindrops. Then, these drops should refreeze into ice pellets (sleet) before hitting the ground. This suggests sleet, but as the warm layer aloft gets thicker, freezing rain will be an issue too.READ MORE
Immigration advocates here sprang into high gear last week after reports from the southern border found more than a thousand migrant families with young children had been released into the U.S. by border agents.
The Biden administration’s undoing of restrictive Trump-era immigration policies, coupled with a recent change in Mexico’s policy that makes it harder for the U.S. to expel migrants, has forged new pathways for arrivals to the United States. Maine isn’t expected to be a popular destination for migrants crossing the southern border this winter, but a group dedicated to facilitating newcomers’ arrival to the state saw the news as a wake-up call.
“We need to be planning for what’s going to happen when more people come,” said Sally Sutton, a program coordinator with the New Mainers Resource Center wing of Portland Adult Education who chairs the Asylum Seekers Working Group. “And there are issues now that we didn’t have in the ‘Summer of the Expo.’” READ MORE
