Kaitlyn Budion
News ReporterKaitlyn Budion is Maine Public’s Bangor correspondent, joining the reporting team after several years working in print journalism.
After growing up in Minnesota, Kaitlyn moved to Boston to attend college at Northeastern University, where she studied journalism. In Boston she reported for Somerville Media Center, the Massachusetts State House News Service, News@Northeastern, the GroundTruth Project and more. She moved to Maine in 2021, reporting for the Morning Sentinel, where she covered local government and PFAS contamination in central Maine.
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Democratic state lawmakers are sounding alarms about proposed federal cuts and work requirements for Medicaid- known in the state as MaineCare- which they say would be extremely detrimental to Mainers who rely on the program. -
A Wabanaki-led nonprofit plans to transform a former Waldo County farm into a permanent home base for food sovereignty efforts. -
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified today that the agency removed maximum contaminant levels of four PFAS chemicals because there was a procedural error in how the standards were set and they could be restored in the future. -
Advocates for Sears Island gathered in Bangor on Wednesday night to voice opposition to a port on the island, saying the project is less about offshore wind and more about development in general. -
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will remove previously announced limits on some PFAS, and delay implementation for standards on others — a move that Maine advocates call unprecedented and dangerous.
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A Maine Superior Court justice will begin scheduling hearings to release indigent criminal defendants who have been held for more than two weeks without an attorney, despite a pending appeal to the state Supreme Court. -
The Department of Marine Resources is considering a 40-acre lease to expand Vertical Bay, a Penobscot Bay scallop farm. -
More than 50 people rallied on the banks of the Penobscot River in Old Town on Sunday to oppose the expansion of nearby Juniper Ridge landfill. -
The Challenger Learning Center of Maine in Bangor recently completed a $2.5 million renovation to bring its NASA mission simulations into the modern era. -
Labor advocates say cuts to federal agencies in President Trump's first 100 days in office have disproportionately impacted veterans —as they make up nearly a third of federal employees.
