Well, three, actually, and another in the state Senate. Together with other medical professionals, they make up a powerful bloc as Maine confronts its health care future.
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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Litchfield same-sex couple disappointed that town staffers didn’t perform marriage ceremony
A gay couple were disappointed Monday morning when they asked to be married at the Litchfield Town Office and were turned away, though the town clerk and deputy town clerk are authorized to perform weddings.
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More than 40 gay couples licensed to wed in Maine
In communities all over the state, same-sex couples obtain licenses to stand for the first time before their friends and family and be able to say: ‘We’re married!’
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44 couples obtain marriage licenses
The legal barrier dismantled by November’s vote, same-sex couples line up to make “it official.”
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More than 56,000 Mainers lose power from storm
A powerful wind- and rainstorm pounded coastal and inland areas of Maine on Friday, knocking down trees and power lines and causing chaos.
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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.