Avoidable dental problems were responsible for a growing number of emergency room visits nationwide in 2009, a 16 percent increase from 2006, when dental disease was the leading reason for visits by low-income and uninsured young people in Maine, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Center on the States.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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Dental disease a primary cause for emergency room visits
Avoidable dental problems were responsible for a growing number of emergency room visits nationwide in 2009, a 16 percent increase from 2006, when dental disease was the leading reason for visits by low-income and uninsured young people in Maine, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Center on the States.
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Loan aims to help stabilize MaineToday Media
PORTLAND — MaineToday Media will get a multimillion-dollar loan that will enable it to pay down debt and fund an ambitious growth plan that company officials say is aimed at making it the state’s leading news source.
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Newspaper’s citizen-investor walks a fine line
Can a donor with such prominent political ties make it work? He can if the journalism – done ‘without fear or favor’ – comes first, experts say.
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Wealthy financier invests in Maine papers
S. Donald Sussman, a prominent Maine philanthropist, will have an equity stake in MaineToday Media and a seat on its board.
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Property sellers: ‘Worst is over’
PORTLAND — Maine’s real estate industry is slowly recovering from the recession and displaying some bright spots, but will continue to face challenges in 2012, speakers told the state’s largest gathering of real estate professionals.
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LePage: Energy bill would kill jobs
PORTLAND — A ballot initiative for renewable energy that supporters say can gradually lower electricity rates while reducing Maine’s dependence on imported fuel is actually “the single, largest job killer” Maine has faced in years and will make rates rise, Gov. Paul LePage told a gathering of the state’s real estate industry Thursday.
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LePage blasts renewable energy initiative
PORTLAND — A ballot initiative for renewable energy that supporters say can gradually lower electricity rates while reducing Maine’s dependence on imported fuel is actually “the single, largest job killer” Maine has faced in years and will make rates rise, Gov. Paul LePage told a gathering of the state’s real estate industry Thursday.
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Maine’s real-estate industry slowly recovering
The Portland area’s vacancy rate, which had peaked at nearly 11 percent in 2009, is falling. The rate last year was just above 6 percent, according to local experts.
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LePage: Renewable energy initiative a ‘job killer’
If the measure gets on the ballot this November and wins voter approval, he says, it will force people and businesses to leave for places with lower energy costs.