Our already undersupported, patchworked system that struggles to feed hungry Mainers sustains yet another blow.
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Happy result for 133rd even if process was ugly
The facts remain in dispute, but Maine’s hold on its engineer Guard unit looks more secure.
OUR OPINION: Health study should be call for action on poverty
Less-affluent rural Maine lags the southern coast in factors linked to greater well-being.
OUR OPINION: Thumbs up, thumbs down
Cheap college credits, land bonds and trash talk make the news this week.
OUR OPINION: Mainers with meager wages should get a raise
Increasing the minimum wage with help low-income families, and the economy.
OUR OPINION: Weak case for cuts to MaineCare reimbursement
Governor and his allies offer a false choice between paying hospitals and providing services to the elderly and disabled.
OUR OPINION: Maine’s public lands are more than a revenue source
The governor’s plan to increase timber harvesting goes against the purpose of state-owned forests.
OUR OPINION: Fate of revenue sharing not the biggest challenge facing Maine communities
Shrinking towns and rising costs have to be addressed, whatever comes of the governor’s budget.
OUR OPINION: Energy-efficiency projects run into LePage hard ball
Governor has hammered away at the Efficiency Maine program, and now his allies on the PUC have used a missing word as an excuse to cut it back.
OUR OPINION: School outbreak response points out CDC’s value
The agency’s multiple public health efforts would be undercut if a plan to cut staff passes.