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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PublishedDecember 3, 2018
Housing developers among six bidders for Mercy Hospital site
The hospital, which is selling its State Street building, may announce a finalist in January.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2018
Portland’s support for non-citizens leads city to forgo $68,000 federal grant for police
Officials turn down funds that the police department typically uses for training and technology.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2018
Portland drops Barron Center site as possible location for new shelter
The decision follows months of opposition by residents of the Nason’s Corner neighborhood. A council committee then endorses a plan to pursue a 150-bed facility elsewhere in Portland.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2018
Portland police make arrest in Rite Aid robbery
Alexander Angelini, 18, of Barrington, Rhode Island, was apprehended about 4:30 p.m. Monday, several hours after the West End pharmacy was robbed.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2018
Portland’s plan to track energy usage stalls over privacy concerns
CMP says regulators must change the rules for it to let large property owners access their tenants’ electricity data, but is ‘thrilled’ with the city’s plan. Others say the company isn’t acting like it.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2018
Portland’s effort to ease traffic is helping Forest Avenue turn a corner
Some drivers who frequent a stretch notorious for jammed intersections say changes like advanced sensors are working.
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PublishedNovember 23, 2018
Activists hang banners calling for safe injection site in Maine’s largest city
Portland OPS is calling on city officials to open a facility where people can inject drugs under medical supervision, which they say reduces overdose deaths.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2018
Mother of Noyes Street fire victim petitions Portland to create memorial
Lisa LeConte Mazziotti wants the city to build a memorial to the six young adults – including her daughter Nicole Finlay – who died in the 2014 blaze.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2018
Portland council seeking unity on model for new homeless shelter
Councilor Kimberly Cook decides not to ask for a council vote on replacing the city’s adult facility with a single city-run shelter while a committee considers its recommendation.
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PublishedNovember 16, 2018
Lawmakers from Portland and Biddeford join leadership in Maine House
All 3 of the top Democrats in the House are from southern Maine.
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