Nicole Ogrysko
All Things Considered Host & News ReporterNicole got her start working the 4:00 am modern rock shift for her college radio station. Before joining Maine Public, she spent eight years covering the federal workforce for Federal News Network, an online and radio outlet based in Washington, D.C., where she lived before moving to Maine in 2020. Nicole graduated from Ithaca College with a journalism and politics degree. She grew up outside Baltimore, Maryland, and is (perhaps unfortunately) still an Orioles fan.
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The Trump administration last week unveiled a series of policy changes that state officials say could results in more than 1,000 Mainers becoming homeless. Included are cuts to funding for programs that provide permanent, long-term housing and support services. -
The new shelter, run by the non-profit service provider Tedford Housing, can accommodate 24 adults and 10 families at a time. It combines two of Tedford's existing shelters into one building and will increase existing capacity by about 60%. -
State officials now estimate that as a result of federal policy changes, about 1,200 people in Maine could lose their long-term housing and risk becoming homeless. -
Under the new policy, federal funding will be shifted away from programs that have provided long-term, supportive housing for chronically unhoused people.
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Nearly 30% of all flights through the Portland International Jetport were delayed over the last week. Nearly 9% of flights were canceled entirely, according to jetport officials. -
Operations at Woodland Pulp and St. Croix Chipping mills in Baileyville will wind down Nov. 20. Woodland Pulp spokesperson Scott Beal said about 150 workers will be temporarily laid off as a result. -
Officials with MSAD 75 said both girls are second-graders at Woodside Elementary School. -
The new group is focused on lowering construction costs and speeding up the state and municipal permitting process, among other priorities. -
As the federal government shutdown drags on into a 36th day, the state announced it will use $2.2 million in carryover funds to provide heating assistance benefits to some 4,000 Maine households who signed up for HEAP benefits in August and September. -
Under the new policy, developers must provide one unit of income-restricted rental housing for every 19 hotel rooms that are built in Portland, or pay a roughly $9,500 fee into the city's housing trust fund.
