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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PublishedSeptember 9, 2019
Sale of student lodging house in Bayside triggers backlash
Affordable housing activists say hundreds of low-cost Portland units will be lost and want the city to step in. The developer plans traditional apartments, but at workforce housing prices and says he’ll help anyone who’s displaced.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2019
Deferment of deportation order makes Portland man ‘feel like a dead person who came back to life’
Abdigani Faisal Hussein of Portland had been detained for 9 months and was about to board a plane returning him to Somalia when his attorneys won a last-minute delay in a deportation order.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2019
Clean elections, ranked choice won’t be on Portland ballot in November
While an initiative to expand ranked-choice voting failed to get enough signatures, the proposal for a municipal clean elections program is deemed too big a change to be made by referendum.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2019
Portland accepts, allocates donations for asylum seekers
The city received more than $900,000 to help cover shelter and basic needs of more than 400 asylum seekers who arrived over the summer.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2019
Fledgling Portland parks group outlines priorities, begins raising money
The Portland Parks Conservancy is looking to establish a Portland Youth Corps for the city parks, while raising money to increase access and enjoyment of a playground and planned trail system in the Riverton neighborhood.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2019
Driver charged with manslaughter in rollover crash that killed 3 in Acadia
According to a National Park Service officer, the man had been drinking and was driving too fast.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2019
Great Diamond Island residents’ bid to secede from Portland falls short
City Clerk Katherine Jones says the Great Diamond Island Exploratory Committee fell 3 signatures short of the 50 needed to formally begin the secession process.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2019
Four candidates qualify to run for Portland mayor while 5 others qualify for open council seat
The city has certified candidates for mayor, City Council and Board of Education.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2019
Advocates fail again to get expansion of ranked-choice voting on Portland ballot
City officials reviewed 300 contested signatures and say Fair Elections Portland still fell 76 short, even after the city lowered the number of signatures required to qualify for the ballot.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2019
Group pushing ranked-choice voting challenges city’s rejection of petition
Its petition effort to expand the voting system to citywide races fell short, but Fair Elections Portland is challenging signatures that were disqualified.
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