Black-owned business

With a lack of direct data collecetion on business ownership by race in Maine, I analyzed US census microdata which showed a disparity in self employment earnings between black and white businesses owners in Maine that is higher than the national average.

Read at The Maine Monitor

Wastewater violations

In this 2014 investigation and in-depth look into the Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, I tested the wastewater discharge at licensed wastewater outfalls and found violations, resulting in enforcement actions by the Department of Environ-mental Protection against a Belfast potato processing plant.

Read at The Republican Journal or Download pdf

Cement kiln dust saga

An investigation into the DEP’s attempts to regulate Dragon Cement’s massive waste cement kiln dust piles that the company claimed would be recycled. The DEP determined this would take “centuries”and that the piles should be closed as landfills, but the company says it can recycle the dust faster.

Read at Courier Gazette or Download pdf

Prison discipline

Prison or Profit Center: High fines for old disciplinary violations still being paid by inmates’ families

Dismantling Supermax

In major shift in Maine’s correctional philosophy, isolation unit becomes space of trust and community.

Bates claims innocence of 1994 rape-murder

Evidence of Innocence?Procedural hurdles have been preventing courts from considering new witness statements about the night of the murder.
Judge orders evidentiary hearing for Bates, opening ‘actual innocence’ gateway in Maine