St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center is top-rated among six hospitals in Maine for surgical quality followed by Central Maine Medical Center, according to rankings recently released by Consumer Reports. That means two of the best surgical care hospitals are located in Lewiston, which should be a point of pride for the entire community. This is […]
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Maine should seek clean air, not exemptions
Other New England states that follow clean-air rules will not, and should not, abide by rules that benefit Maine if we choose to ignore them ourselves. That fact seems to have escaped the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Without any public announcement of its intentions, the DEP wants to weaken a key provision of long-standing […]
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There is a lack of trust in Auburn
The lack of humility is surprising. Nay. Astonishing. The day after Auburn voters soundly rejected a school budget for a second time, the Auburn School Committee met to map where to go from here. Committee Chairman Tom Kendall laid the blame squarely on the voters, on their lack of understanding of how their votes will […]
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Anthem, MaineHealth collude to exclude
Maine’s superintendent of insurance should be protecting the interests of health care consumers rather than trying to tilt the competitive playing field between hospital systems. That is exactly what happened Thursday when Eric Cioppa allowed the state’s largest health insurer to collude with the state’s largest hospital system to exclude competition. Government regulation of an […]
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History on the side of the forgotten heroes
Tomorrow marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, a war that went uncelebrated and largely unremembered in the U.S. for nearly 20 years. In 1970, the war was re-introduced to millions of Americans by the movie “M*A*S*H,” then by the long-running TV series by the same name. While the groundbreaking show explored the complexity […]
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Ryan Braun: Paying less for damaged goods
Being a slugger in the big leagues takes a good eye, quick wrists, nerves of steel and, apparently, a poker face for lying. That became clear again Tuesday when Milwaukee slugger Ryan Braun accepted a 65-game suspension for his involvement with a drug lab linked to more than 20 professional players, including Yankee star Alex Rodriguez. Just […]
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Americans have harder time climbing
Yes, the royal baby has dropped, and guess what? It looks like Winston Churchill. How do we know that? All babies look like Churchill: Chubby, bald, wrinkly and grumpy. We kid the royals, of course. We’re Americans; that’s what we do. We fought two wars to eliminate hereditary titles and assure that smart, hard-working people […]
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Odd obsession with deaths on roller coasters
Something needs to lead the newspaper or TV newscast, even on a slow news day. Perhaps that accounts for how the death of a single woman on a roller coaster in Texas Friday became the lead story on at least two TV network news broadcasts Saturday night. Then again, there are certain events, like airline […]
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Compare Maine, N.H. on all factors
Anyone interested in eliminating income taxes eventually finds their way to a Maine/New Hampshire comparison, as a writer for Forbes magazine did Friday. In a column on the magazine’s website, Travis Brown wrote, “Maine doesn’t attract the level of derision that extremely high-tax states (like New York) do.” That surprised us after all of the […]
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Is our Congress serious about getting to work?
Would that it were true. Could the U.S. Congress actually, finally, mercifully be seeking to end partisan gridlock? On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and U.S. Sen. Angus King were among 80 elected officials who participated in a “Make Congress Work: No Labels” event as part of a long-term, problem-solving coalition. The aim of the […]