Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2014
Portland property owners ask councilors to ease impact of stormwater fees
Fees that could take effect in 2016 would fund projects to reduce the runoff that enters waterways such as Back Cove and Casco Bay.
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PublishedNovember 13, 2014
Portland apartment building where blaze killed six is in foreclosure, records show
Inspection reports reveal the city had been called to the property 16 times over the last 11 years to investigate complaints including storage of combustible material on the porch.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2014
Portland freezes hiring, non-emergency overtime because of immigrant-aid dispute with state
Gov. Paul LePage’s plans to withhold funding to communities that provide aid to undocumented immigrants could cost the city $3.2 million a year.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2014
Portland councilors call for city to expand fire safety oversight
They say more inspections of rental units are needed to find violations and get them fixed, but differ on adding staff to the fire department.
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PublishedNovember 9, 2014
Many in Portland live in rentals with code violations
After a fire on Noyes Street kills six, the Telegram’s renewed investigation of citywide code problems shows that inspection data is difficult to track.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2014
Portland got complaints about possible illegal unit in building where fire killed 6
Records show 16 complaint-based inspections at 20 Noyes St. since 2003, where a fire killed six young adults last week.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2014
Republicans gear up to govern Maine after resounding victories
Triumphs by LePage, Poliquin and state senate candidates mirror a Republican surge that swept the nation
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PublishedNovember 3, 2014
Portland’s fire safety program faces scrutiny after loss of five young lives
A 2013 consultant’s report found a lack of regular, periodic safety inspections and called for more staffing in the city’s fire prevention bureau, among other improvements.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2014
Witnesses describe horrors at scene of Portland fatal fire
Some people jumped from second-story windows to escape the blaze that claimed five lives.
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PublishedNovember 1, 2014
Five dead in house fire on Portland’s Noyes Street
One survivor is badly burned after the early-morning fire and fire officials say the cause and the indentification of the bodies will take time.
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