When Addie Bowden was diagnosed with autism at nearly 3 years old, she still didn’t speak and sometimes didn’t recognize family members. She would slap herself repeatedly on the forehead and scream, trying to communicate her wants and needs.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about Maine businesses large and small, focusing on economic development, workforce initiatives and the state’s leading business organizations. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, immigration, education, transportation, history, human rights, health and elder care, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
Posted inBusiness
Icelandic shipping company moving to Portland
Eimskip will open a warehouse and begin operating out of Portland at the end of March, replacing its container operation in Norfolk, Va.
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Posted inNews
Study: Mainers lack access to regular dental care
Nearly 40 percent of Maine’s 1.3 million people live in federally designated Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Posted inNews
New federal poverty guidelines could preserve MaineCare recipients
New federal poverty guidelines could reduce the number of people who will be cut from MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, as a result of federal funding waivers granted recently to the LePage administration.
Posted inBusiness, News
Maine agencies secure $4.2M in penalties, restitution, claims
The Office of Securities and the Bureau of Insurance helped to recover millions for Mainers in 2012.
Posted inNews
Maine man wins ‘Today Show’ wing cook-off
Malcolm Bedell’s Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chili Chicken Wings took top honors.
Posted inPolitics
LePage’s budget would cut off patients with special needs
Hard-to-find dental care for 3,000 of the mentally ill and disabled would vanish under the governor’s budget.
Posted inPolitics
LePage budget includes some of funds demanded by lawsuit
Required services for 85 of 115 mentally impaired adults would be provided, but a lawyer calls it ‘a shell game.’
Posted inNews
Advocates for disabled looking to fill Medicaid slots in law suit
The LePage administration has included $6.7 million in its proposed state budget to provide group-home and other services to some of the 176 mentally disabled Mainers represented in a pending class-action lawsuit.
Posted inNews, Politics
Lawsuit targets LePage in defense of mentally impaired
The administration has failed to provide group-home care and other required services to more than 100 intellectually and developmentally impaired adults, the suit says.