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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PublishedAugust 2, 2019
Company selling bottled water in Maine to close after N.H. health warning
Spring Hill Water is sold at Cumberland Farms, Market Basket, Whole Foods and other stores.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2019
Portland begins final push as it transitions migrants out of Expo
City and immigrant leaders will move asylum seekers to the Family Shelter and a Salvation Army overflow shelter by Aug. 15.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2019
Migrant in Portland ‘shocked’ by fake Twitter account used to smear fellow asylum seekers
Someone posed as Prince Pombo Mafumba in an attempt to stoke xenophobia and anger among Mainers.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2019
Sen. Collins co-sponsors bill requiring presidential campaigns to report foreign contacts
She is the first Republican senator to support the measure, but Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far blocked the bill from coming to a vote.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2019
Council committee decides migrants’ initial housing costs a priority for donation fund
The matter of how to spend $870,000 in private donations for asylum seekers in Portland will go before the full City Council in August.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2019
Immigrant leaders in Portland say migrants will accept available housing
That appears to be a shift since Tuesday, when city staffers said housing offers outside Portland had been repeatedly turned down.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2019
Portland intensifies effort to find housing for asylum seekers who remain at Expo
As a political battle over mixed messaging continues, city leaders try to clear up confusion that may have caused some migrant families to turn down housing offers outside Portland.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2019
Several councilors say mayor misinformed asylum seekers about housing options
Mayor Ethan Strimling denies that he has given migrant families a mixed message about refusing housing outside Portland, as the deadline to close the shelter at the Portland Expo approaches.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2019
How to use donations for asylum seekers? It’s an $800,000 question
City of Portland staff recommends using some of the money to help pay for costs of running the temporary emergency shelter at the Expo, but immigrant advocates say that would be contrary to the intent of donors.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2019
Justin Costa drops out of Portland mayoral race
The city councilor urges voters to support the two other challengers taking on incumbent Mayor Ethan Strimling.
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