The award recognizes her support for federal matching funds to states that offer health insurance to families with children.
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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Bike swap attracts 1,900 people from across Maine
Held in Portland, the 10th annual event offers 565 bicycles for sale and finds new homes for about two-thirds of them.
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Portland burglary suspect shot by police, in critical condition
Jonathan Mitchell of Bangor is taken to Maine Medical Center with an apparent gunshot injury and is charged on five counts.
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4 Maine high schools featured at conference
Representatives of Casco Bay High School in Portland, Gray-New Gloucester High School in Gray and Mt. Blue High School and Foster Technology Center in Farmington were invited to give presentations.
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Girls Rock! expected to draw hundreds of young women
More than 300 girls from across Maine are expected to participate in Girls Rock! events this weekend in Waterville, Augusta, Portland and Bangor.
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UMaine system launches online learning site
Online.maine.edu has overviews of more than 45 online programs, direct connections to staff and links to admissions resources.
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Mural flap makes latest Time magazine
“Milestones” page notes Gov. Paul LePage’s controversial decision to remove mural from Maine Department of Labor.
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Six Mainers file federal suit against LePage over labor mural removal
Six Mainers have formally challenged Gov. Paul LePage’s controversial decision to remove a mural from the Maine Department of Labor headquarters in Augusta, according to a lawsuit that their lawyer said was filed electronically Friday evening to the U.S. District Court in Portland.
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Lawsuit filed over mural’s removal
Six Mainers have formally challenged Gov. Paul LePage’s controversial decision to remove a mural from the Maine Department of Labor headquarters in Augusta, according to a lawsuit that their lawyer said was filed electronically Friday evening to the U.S. District Court in Portland.
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Lawsuit: Return mural to Labor Dept.
The complaint asks the court to compel Gov. Paul LePage and other officials to restore the mural to its original location.