A powerful wind- and rainstorm pounded coastal and inland areas of Maine on Friday, knocking down trees and power lines and causing chaos.
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.
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Maine’s debt to hospitals approaches $500 million
Hospitals are urging the state to begin making overdue Medicaid payments so they can also collect the much bigger federal match.
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Maine hospitals push to get $484 million in overdue MaineCare payments
‘The state needs to pay up,’ says Gov. LePage
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Ten apply for job as Maine’s health exchange coordinator
The new hire will help agencies with the federal version of a state exchange Gov. LePage opposes.
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State posts a job, sparks a mystery
It’s to coordinate a health insurance exchange, which Gov. LePage has previously sworn not to implement.
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State job posting for insurance exchange manager has many scratching heads
Gov. Paul LePage claimed state wouldn’t participate in Affordable Care Act exchange, but job description appears to describe exactly that.
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President of Spurwink Services to step down after 13 years
PORTLAND — Spurwink Services, one of Maine’s largest mental health care and special education providers, will soon be seeking new leadership.
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Spurwink president announces departure plans
After 13 years, Dawn Stiles will leave Maine to take a job in Florida, where she has a home.
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Maine ER nurse aiding Superstorm Sandy victims at makeshift Bronx medical shelter
For Steve Moody, it’s a high compliment that puts more than week of hard work in treacherous conditions into crystal-clear perspective.
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State reports first flu cases of the season
AUGUSTA — The first flu cases of the season were detected in Maine early last week, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.