PORTLAND — Usually, a video of a political candidate doing a striptease in a dive bar is enough to end a campaign — especially a campaign for the local school board.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Oxford Plains racetrack has a new owner
Tom Mayberry, head of Pro All Stars Series, plans to create a multi-use facility, with monster trucks, motocross and faster cars.
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Porthole, Comedy Connection closed again, future is uncertain
Less than a month after being shut down for health violations, the restaurant and comedy club close for renovations, and it’s unclear if they’ll reopen.
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City closes three waterfront businesses
Citing health code violations including ‘rat droppings’ and ‘TONS of flies all over the food,’ officials shut down the Porthole restaurant and two other sites owned by Oliver Keithly.
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Portland medical marijuana rally slated for Saturday at Deering Oaks Park
PORTLAND — Visitors to Deering Oaks on Saturday may take in a little more than fresh air.
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Officials trying to reinstate veterans’ counselor
The full-time VA representative has been credited with connecting homeless veterans with services more quickly and reducing the number of nights they must stay at the shelter. The position, created in 2011, was cut in June.
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‘Bert and I’ may be heading to silver screen
PORTLAND — Bert and I, the celebrated Maine humor albums created by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan when they were Yale University students in 1958, may be headed to the big screen.
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Hollywood? Come to think of it, you can get there from here: ‘Bert and I’ stories may go big screen
PORTLAND — Bert and I, the celebrated Maine humor albums created by Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan when they were Yale University students in 1958, may be headed to the big screen.
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School chief defends his lambasting of Gov. LePage
Superintendent Paul Perzanoski says he wanted to let teachers know they have a right to defend themselves from the governor’s “manipulation of facts.”
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Parties mark 50th birthday of Baxter State Park
PORTLAND — On Aug. 6, 1962, former Gov. Percival Baxter acquired his 28th and final parcel of land in northern Maine, fulfilling a lifelong dream of creating a park around Mount Katahdin.