HeyJaredThe Robinson Report
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson is an investigative journalist and filmmaker whose work focuses on Maine, New England politics, and organized crime.
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Mills’ Parting Bill: Maine’s Next Governor Faces $1.34 Billion Budget Hole (opens the original)
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Bellows Names Group That Got Maine Absentee Envelopes - MWTV (opens the original)
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Steve Robinson joins Tom Shattuck, Seamus Othot, Graham Pollard and Jon Fetherston on Bellows naming Center for Civic Design. Robinson recaps how his Maine Wire records request sat 228 days before the Secretary of State's office named the nonprofit that received Maine absentee return envelopes before the 2025 election. The panel walks through Bellows's earlier promise to find the "bad actors," her January testimony that she could not recall the group's name, and CCD's ties to her dating to a 201
Cover-Up: One Year Later, Shenna Bellows Admits Soros-Funded Election Group Obtained Sensitive Maine Election Material (opens the original)
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Fraud Fallout; Troy Jackson's Campaign of Cringe - MWTV (opens the original)
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Maine Wire TV covers autism group-home fraud fallout and Troy Jackson's Campaign of Cringe toddler ads. The show follows Wire reporting that We Care Residential billed millions after a Brewer resident's death and staff arrests, as DHHS cut off operators. It also takes up the Wire opinion on Jackson's Families for Troy event using toddlers with campaign signs.
A Ward of the State Died Alone, ‘We Care’ Kept Making Millions from MaineCare (opens the original)
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A disabled Maine man died on his bedroom floor after workers at a Brewer autism group home gave him pancakes and allowed him to eat alone despite an eating disorder that caused severe choking risk. His name was Justin King, and he was a ward of the state. It’s not clear whether he had family to inspect the unlicensed We Care Residential Services facility in which Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) placed him.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackc
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