This week on the Beacon podcast, Ben Chin and Mike Tipping discuss a new report showing racial and gender disparities in Maine’s criminal justice system, debate whether Sen. Susan Collins might vote to remove President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial and look back on just a few of the stories broken by Beacon this year.

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