2024 selections and reflections from Maine Morning Star reporters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Early on, most of my time was spent with the housing committee, learning about what the people sitting in Augusta were planning to do about shelter funding and a proposed constitutional right to housing.
53% : Over the past few months, I went from feeling like an expert in interviews about K-12 schools to beginning my conversations with sources with questions like, "Can we start with you explaining Medicaid to me?"My favorite part of reporting is that we get paid to learn more about the world, so immersing myself in something new has been truly rewarding, and while I'll always be an education reporter at heart, my favorite stories this year were not about our public schools or colleges.
47% : I think about following each step of the deliberations for two competing data privacy proposals that legislators on both sides of the aisle described as the most intense and lengthy of their tenures, and the non-partisan staff that made it all possible.
39% : But they took me from a reporter who had never covered a legislative session to one who knew the best spots in the House gallery and the LD number for every piece of gun legislation.

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