The administration plans to re-establish access to 2,500 acres of public reserved lands surrounded by conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s land in the Katahdin region.

At first he says, ‘I will be commissioner,’ then he says he’ll just sign documents. Confusion and criticism follow.

The governor’s pledge is the latest in a series of political conflicts over how to manage patients sent by the courts to the state’s Riverview Psychiatric Center.

The comment on a Bangor radio station contradicts his assertion that others injected race into his prior reference to traffickers who impregnate ‘white’ girls.