NEWS

Our View: Portland should not cut homeless shelter funding

It’s not the city of Portland’s fault that more homeless people line up outside the Oxford Street Shelter than the building can hold. It’s not Portland’s fault that the family shelter also faces more demand than it can accommodate.

It’s not Portland’s fault that the governor of Maine has decided to make the city the focus of a relentless campaign to vilify poor people and blame them for the state’s economic problems … 

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