Maine Equal Justice Partners, which led the campaign to pass expansion at the ballot box, wants to hold the state to deadlines outlined in the law passed by voters in November.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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University of New England sounds alarm on growing need for cadavers, a crucial medical-training tool
The Biddeford campus has Maine’s only program for whole-body donations, and as educational needs and class sizes grow, the school hopes to encourage more people to donate their bodies to science.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Politics
LePage vetoes extended funding for child abuse prevention program
The governor said the program duplicates others. Lawmakers had passed the extension nearly unanimously.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine watchdog agency delays report on state’s handling of fatal child abuse cases
The office needs 3 more weeks to complete its inquiry into the deaths of 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy and 4-year-old Kendall Chick.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Maine students to be required to get meningitis vaccine
The protection against the bacterial form of the disease had previously been a recommendation, but public health officials want more protection for students entering seventh and 12 grades.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine, News
CDC warns against eating any romaine lettuce after E. coli outbreak
Consumers are urged to avoid buying any form of romaine lettuce and to discard any they may have purchased, even if no one has been sickened by it.
Posted inMaine, News
Number of opioids prescribed in Maine in 2017 fell 13 percent, the sixth-steepest drop in U.S.
The drop since 2016 reflects the first full year of data under the law limiting opioid prescribing and exceeds the national average decline of 8.9 percent.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Maine House votes to save child abuse prevention program
The LePage administration plans to end the program in September.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Democrats advance bill to partially fund Medicaid expansion
The $10.4 million funding measure would pay for 103 jobs to administer program benefits at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Posted inMaine, Politics
Legislature votes to spend $6.6 million more a year to help uninsured in opioid struggle
The as-yet-unappropriated funds are intended to ease access to medication-assisted treatment for up to 500 Mainers, but now it’s up to Gov. LePage.