Here’s a sampling of some of my past reporting work. And the full list for Bangor Daily News.
2018 Gubernatorial race
- Republican candidate Moody declines to release tax returns
- Republican candidate Moody pays more in property taxes than what the other candidates earn in a year
- As governor, Moody would keep hold of rapidly growing business interests
- The contradictions hidden in money trail of Maine GOP governor’s race
- A clash of money and values revealed among Democrats for governor
- Political cash shows unenrolled candidates for governor are not exactly independent
- See how Maine’s candidates for governor put $1M into politics
A business empire’s ties to alleged marijuana trafficking
- Maine businesses have financial ties to alleged marijuana trafficker
- Investor scraps $8.3M marijuana deal with businessman linked to investigation
Opportunity Zone tax breaks
- The big deals that won LePage’s favor for tax breaks
- LePage had two special places to give out tax benefits. Both went to paper
- The 66 places LePage passed over for tax breaks
Housing in Bangor
- The Bangor neighborhoods where people can’t afford their rent
- How Bangor became even more dependent on health care jobs, in one big chart
- Pitfalls and strengths of local data on income and housing
Electricity resellers cash in
- How electricity providers siphoned more than $20 million from Maine customers / Later: How Mainers spent $50 million they didn’t need to on electricity
- State confirms home power customers spent $77M they didn’t need to
- ‘Leading edge’ restrictions on electricity sellers become Maine law
- Electricity sellers allegedly pose as utility workers to poach customers
- After complaints, Maine’s biggest electricity seller faces suspension
- Power sellers overcharged Maine customers by $16 million in 2017
- Full “Power Grab” series
The costs of buoying a troubled biomass industry
- LePage keeps backing energy firm seeking taxpayer help, despite failings after bailout
- Maine’s $13M bailout of biomass plants will mean jobs, but at a cost of $23,700 each
- Could biofuel save Maine’s timber industry?
- Latest redeveloper of shuttered Maine mill tied to manager of failed restart
- Maine’s biomass bailout bill isn’t helping loggers as much as it was supposed to
- Subsidized wood-to-energy firm fell far short on wood purchases, state says
The geography of a tax hike
A dive into Maine’s net metering debate
- Homeowners with solar panels affect your power bill. Maine’s debating whether that’s fair
- Why money is the real power in Maine’s solar energy debate
- Can Maine thread the political needle on solar policy?