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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PublishedApril 29, 2019
Plan would ban new restaurants and retail stores on Portland piers
The zoning amendments are being proposed to address concerns raised by fishermen and advocates that a construction boom of hotels and other tourist uses is threatening the future of the working waterfront.
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PublishedApril 26, 2019
Portland council violates city codes by approving liquor license for Rising Tide brewery
The new license, which allows the brewery on Fox Street to have a full-service bar, passed on a 5-2 vote after the city attorney told councilors they were on ‘a slippery slope.’
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PublishedApril 24, 2019
Portland firefighters trying to rescue Munjoy Hill station’s Engine 1
The city budget proposed for the year starting July 1 would shut down the truck and reassign firefighters, leaving a ladder truck and an ambulance on Munjoy Hill.
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PublishedApril 22, 2019
Portland allocates $45,000 in private donations to aid asylum seekers
City Manager Jon Jennings has proposed phasing out the Community Support Fund, which was created in 2015 in response to state budget cuts.
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PublishedApril 22, 2019
Office building proposed in Portland’s India Street neighborhood
The $7 million project at 170 Fore St. is the third project of four proposals for a block that only a few years ago was largely undeveloped.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
Efforts by Portland, state navigate path out of chronic homelessness
The so-called ‘housing first’ approach creates stability and takes pressure off shelters, but so far, the suburbs aren’t buying into it.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
What is ‘housing first’?
‘We really feel housing is itself therapeutic,’ says Preble Street’s Hillary Colcord, the director of Huston Commons.
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Islanders given a reprieve from parking garage evictions in Portland
Unified Parking Partners, the company that manages the privately-owned Ocean Gateway garage, is rescinding some of the termination letters sent last Thursday to 20 island residents, but it’s unclear how long they will be allowed to stay.
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PublishedApril 17, 2019
Search narrows as Portland rules out site near county jail for new homeless shelter
A City Council committee is asking the council to choose between a vacant lot on Commercial Street and land on Riverside Street.
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PublishedApril 17, 2019
Maine gets federal support to help homeless
Maine agencies will receive help for the homeless and those with mental health and substance use disorders.
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