Erin Rhoda
Editor at Bangor Daily News
Maine Focus editor for the Bangor Daily News, runner, traveler, daughter of a farmer, poet, hiker.
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2 weeks ago |
bangordailynews.com | Erin Rhoda |Callie Ferguson
Oxford County commissioners allowed a local deputy to resign on Thursday after he was arrested for violating a protection from abuse order that prohibited him from carrying firearms. His resignation ended a five-month leave of absence from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office that began when the no-contact order was issued against him, during which the deputy continued to collect a paycheck.
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1 month ago |
bangordailynews.com | Callie Ferguson |Erin Rhoda
At 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 25, an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture emailed an employee at the University of Maine in Orono with a list of 10 yes-or-no questions. The university was being investigated for its compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports, and the federal official needed more information about the school’s policies. Millions in federal funds were at risk for non-compliance, the USDA warned.
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1 month ago |
propublica.org | Callie Ferguson |Erin Rhoda |Jennifer Smith Richards |Jodi S. Cohen
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. After an exchange between Maine’s governor and President Donald Trump over transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, several federal agencies launched investigations. A federal agency investigating the University of Maine System has not yet issued any findings.
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1 month ago |
bangordailynews.com | Erin Rhoda
This story will be updated. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen funding to the University of Maine System, it announced in an email on Monday that was obtained by the Bangor Daily News. The notice from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer within the USDA came as the federal agency investigates the University of Maine System for allegedly violating federal civil rights law for allowing transgender women to play on women’s sports teams.
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1 month ago |
bangordailynews.com | Erin Rhoda
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has frozen funding to the University of Maine System, it announced in an email that was obtained by the Bangor Daily News. The notice on Monday from the Office of the Chief Financial Officer within the USDA came as the federal agency investigates Maine for allegedly violating federal civil rights law for allowing transgender women to play on women’s sports teams.
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