Been a Mainer my whole life and I say "y'all" 😳🤭 but it's dude and bub for me. The south is fascinating to me, wish I had grown up there! Don't get me wrong, I'm proud to be a Mainer but I'd love the experience of being grown and raised southern. Love their accents, love country music, love a good beer (even though I can't drink anymore) love their outdoor, dirty activities.

I need to move south at some point in my life. That's all there is to it!

Since it's been in the news via all outlets (tv, radio, newspapers, on-line news, bulletins, notices, water cooler talk and everything else) since last fall; yes, we knew. Everyone who received at $850 relief check automatically qualiflied and there will be others who also qualify. If you don't want or need yours, Catholic Charities and other organizations provide emergency heating assistance to needy folks. HEAP assistance is slow and cumbersome to get and is often not enough to get a family through a cold winter (not disparaging HEAP, just stating how it is). They try, but don't have the staff or resources to be efficient. Other charities buy the fuel directly and have it delivered to needy families and can do it very quickly. Just a thought, in case you (or anyone else who didn't know about the $450) don't need it for fuel this winter.

We don't have those but that is really useful info, thanks :)

If you have an Apple TV or Amazon Fire Stick, download the Very Local app. It’s free and let’s you watch channel 8 news at your leisure.

Be mad at all the people who abused the PPP loans and then had it forgiven, dude in Maine just got time for getting over a million, I think these relief checks are the least of our concerns

We say “Guy” up here in the NE.

Virtue signalling so their fellow NIMBY neighbors know they're oh so caring people

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You are so right about this. But it requires mathing and understanding how averages work. Much easier to just say “they’re all such rich assholes.” Also median = half the people make LESS than that.

It's per person who filed a 2021 Maine tax return.

No. They're not going to tax it.

Gor forbid the "feel" of a neighborhood ever be altered for the greater benefit

Does it occur to anyone that the people flying those flags didn’t vote against affordable housing? Do any of the people in this thread even know what the vote breakdown was?

100% this. The generalizations here are based in such ignorance and the article did nothing to help. The ONE resident quoted is despised by half the town.

My mistake. You are correct. It was Cumberland town not county. I originally made the argument because I know there are a large number of lower income homes and properties in neighborhoods you don’t see. A blanket description of all residents is inaccurate. But I do agree that the most vocal groups in Cape are NIMBY folks who like to feel virtuous by talking a good game as long as it’s on someone else’s field. I have lived in the SoPo side of town for 20 years and the town has changed over the past 20 years and has moved to consistently Democratic voters who one might think would be welcoming based on their yard signs.

I wonder how a low income proposal in the middle of the gentrified Portland west end would fly.

:)

You're a bad person for being a dick to someone for no other reason than you can be. I may not be as "informed" as you, but I at least know how to be respectful.

Edit: judging me based on a self-depreciating joke doesn't make you sound as smart as you think it does.

You say you work and get drunk and don’t know probably the single biggest state news story, but I’m a bad person for question how you would make an informed voting decision? Go hit the bottle some more bud

Give your toddler a controller. Kids love Rocket League, too!

It was your mom wasn't it? I keep telling her that plopping down like that, with all that mass, could topple a skyscraper but she just never listens...

IRS ruled it won't tax the payments

Hey, by the way those two towers in NYC? The World Trade Center? Those two big ones right next to each other? Those are gone now.

I hope you don't breed because you clearly can't be trusted to be a decent person

I didn't know until my baby mother told me, I'm still waiting for mine. But my name would put me higher on an alphabetical list

Got mine this week…if you watch local news or read PPH it’s been widely discussed.