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SWH eyes taller buildings for workforce housing - 'going up instead of out'
Contract zoning's time has come - Part 2 of series on MDI's limited 'carrying capacity'
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Lincoln Millstein
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Saving Northeast Creek: Part 1 of series on MDI's limited 'carrying capacity'
BAR HARBOR, June 8, 2025 — Mount Desert Island is the second-largest island on the East Coast.
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Lincoln Millstein
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UPDATE: Final thoughts on Bar Harbor municipal elections as low turnout expected
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Lincoln Millstein
UPDATE: Final thoughts on Bar Harbor municipal elections as low turnout expected
BAR HARBOR, June 7, 2025 - There are off-year elections, and then there are “off, off-year elections.”
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Lincoln Millstein
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Ex-code officer says Bar Harbor's method is overreaching its authority to seek proof of residency
In stinging rebuke, Angela Chamberlain calls out former bosses
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Lincoln Millstein
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New York Times constitutional expert dissects Trump-Leonard Leo spat
MOUNT DESERT, June 1, 2025 - The New York Times this morning finally caught up with the Donald Trump-Leonard Leo contretemps in which Trump called the…
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Lincoln Millstein
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Trump turns against Leonard Leo for judicial decisions, calls him a 'real sleazebag'
NORTHEAST HARBOR, May 30, 2025 - Leonard Leo, the right wing activist who raised billions in dark money from his waterfront home here, has become Donald…
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Lincoln Millstein
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An online journal which chronicles the steady decline in quality of life wrought by unchecked tourism on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The QSJ is written in the traditions of Pamphleteers in the late 18th Century and Muckrakers in the early 20th Century.
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