Around Town 5/15/26: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne JD Vance comes to Bangor, plans to save Maine taxpayers from “fraudsters” wasting our money. We talk w/ protesters outside the venue. Trump’s Other ‘Vanity Projects’ Will Cost $162.5 Million—In Addition To $1.4 Billion Ballroom Possibly Funded By Taxpayers, Sara Dorn, Forbes Staff. May 13, 2026, Forbes Let’s Get to the Bottom of Trump’s Expensive, No-Bid Contracts for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Public Citizen, May 12, 2026 Reflecting Pool Repairs to Cost $13.1 Million. Trump Had Promised $1.8 Million, David A. Fahrenthold and Luke Broadwater, New York Times, May 11, 2026 Report exposes sketchy no-bid deals as costs spiral on Trump’s vanity ballroom project, Jen Psaki, MS NOW via YouTube, May 6, 2026 Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job David A. Fahrenthold, Luke Broadwater and Andrea Fuller, New York Times, April 27, 2026 ICE, Inc.: The Top Companies Profiting from Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, Nick Schwellenbach, Luisa Clausen, and Aarushi Sahejpal, POGO (the news reporting division of the Project on Government Oversight), February 18, 2026 Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License The post Around Town 5/15/26: Local News, Culture and Events first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.