Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been covering Portland City Hall for the Press Herald since 2012. His beat touches on a wide range of topics, including immigration, homelessness, education, tourism, real estate development and the economy in Maine’s largest city. He has been a Portland-based journalist since 2005. A life-long Mainer who loves the outdoors, Randy is also a bassist who brews his own beer at his North Yarmouth home, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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PublishedMay 27, 2020
Guard’s mask-fitting mission helps in battle against coronavirus
The Maine National Guard is helping long-term care facilities prepare for possible outbreaks by fitting workers with medical-grade masks normally used in hospital settings.
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PublishedMay 22, 2020
Maine fails to deliver online inspections as restaurants reopen in pandemic
Officials planned to update the state’s inspections database five years ago, but it still hasn’t happened.
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PublishedMay 16, 2020
Bangor police investigate shooting involving people in 2 cars
They’re looking for the occupants of two four-door sedans in connection with the incident Friday night at York and Essex streets.
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PublishedMay 16, 2020
Racial disparity in Maine’s COVID-19 cases deepens
But in one of the whitest states in the country, there is also growing concern about stigmatizing immigrant and minority communities.
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PublishedMay 7, 2020
Racial disparity grows along with Maine’s number of virus cases
Blacks and African Americans make up 1.6% of Maine’s population but more than 6% of its coronavirus infections.
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PublishedMay 5, 2020
Shortage of swabs hampers COVID-19 testing in Maine nursing homes
Most of the facilities that responded to a survey said they lacked the basic tool to detect the disease.
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PublishedApril 30, 2020
Newly released data suggest ‘alarming’ racial disparity among Maine’s COVID-19 cases
African Americans account for 1.7% of the state’s population but 3.7% of the state’s infections. The state CDC director says, ‘These disparities are concerning.’
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PublishedApril 30, 2020
State rents 115 hotel rooms to create social distancing for homeless Mainers
Hotel rooms in Portland and Bangor are reserved for people awaiting test results or recovering from COVID-19, while rooms in Knox County are used to create physical distance.
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PublishedApril 28, 2020
Some taxpayers get shut out of stimulus, prompting challenge to federal law
Anyone who doesn’t have a Social Security number or is married to someone who doesn’t is ineligible to receive payments. That includes many immigrants who have tax ID numbers.
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PublishedApril 25, 2020
Pandemic has Mainers buying more liquor, but there’s no trickle-down effect for brewers
While liquor sales have spiked since the coronavirus hit Maine, craft breweries, which rely heavily on taproom sales, are struggling.
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