FARMINGTON — Maurice (Bud) Martin, University of Maine in Farmington associate professor of community health education, was recently named deputy editor of Health Promotion Practice, a leading professional journal in the field of community health.
February 2013
Posted inCommunity
MESSALONSKEE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR ROLL
OAKLAND — Messalonskee High School announces its second quarter honor roll.
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Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Meals on Wheels program serves vital needs for clients
I was greatly distressed when I heard that recent budget cuts have endangered the local Meals on Wheels program.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Banning guns won’t work, like trying to ban liquor
Every time we have some act of violence involving guns, the politicians come out of the woodwork calling for bans on guns. For the most part they seem to be anxious to promote their own future. The president went on prime time TV and made a great speech. (He really has good speech writers.)
Posted inOpinion
COMMENTARY: Funds to treat kids who hear voices telling them to kill shouldn’t be cut
A 14-year-old with large brown eyes and tightly cropped hair told me a few weeks ago that voices were telling him to kill people.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
OUR OPINION: Delaying tax cuts would save funds for municipalities
At one point in his State of the State address, Gov. Paul LePage sounded as if he were ready to make a major policy about-face.
Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion
Scientific truth isn’t decided by majority vote
To support his weak case against global warming, M.D. Harmon (“Some hot (and not so hot) news about global warming trends,” Jan. 19) leans hard on some popular media articles by David Whitehouse, not a climate scientist but an astrophysicist who’s never published a peer-reviewed article about climate change.
Posted inPolitics
State lays bare how it spends Mainers’ tax money
The site is praised by one analyst, but he also says it could give more details about certain departments, including who receives $660 million in state grants and tax credits.
Posted inPolitics
Sen. Rubio chosen to rebut Obama’s speech
House Speaker John Boehner calls the Cuban-American lawmaker ‘one of our party’s most dynamic and inspiring leaders.’