Nearly 40 percent of Maine’s 1.3 million people live in federally designated Dental Health Professional Shortage Areas.
Kelley Bouchard
Staff Writer
Kelley writes about some of the most critical aspects of Maine’s economy and future growth, including transportation, immigration, retail and small business, commercial development and tourism, with emphasis on consumer issues, sustainability and minority ownership. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, 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 for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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New federal poverty guidelines could preserve MaineCare recipients
New federal poverty guidelines could reduce the number of people who will be cut from MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, as a result of federal funding waivers granted recently to the LePage administration.
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Posted inBusiness, News
Maine agencies secure $4.2M in penalties, restitution, claims
The Office of Securities and the Bureau of Insurance helped to recover millions for Mainers in 2012.
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Maine man wins ‘Today Show’ wing cook-off
Malcolm Bedell’s Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chili Chicken Wings took top honors.
Posted inPolitics
LePage’s budget would cut off patients with special needs
Hard-to-find dental care for 3,000 of the mentally ill and disabled would vanish under the governor’s budget.
Posted inPolitics
LePage budget includes some of funds demanded by lawsuit
Required services for 85 of 115 mentally impaired adults would be provided, but a lawyer calls it ‘a shell game.’
Posted inNews
Advocates for disabled looking to fill Medicaid slots in law suit
The LePage administration has included $6.7 million in its proposed state budget to provide group-home and other services to some of the 176 mentally disabled Mainers represented in a pending class-action lawsuit.
Posted inNews, Politics
Lawsuit targets LePage in defense of mentally impaired
The administration has failed to provide group-home care and other required services to more than 100 intellectually and developmentally impaired adults, the suit says.
Posted inNews, Politics
Maine speakers testify against human services cutbacks
Nearly 100 people speak out against Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed cuts to the state DHHS budget.
Posted inPolitics
Oversight of Maine health-insurance fund questioned
The board in control of fees used to keep down rates on individual policies acts in private.