WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the extraordinarily lethal Ebola virus has worsened in West Africa, with the contagion showing no sign of coming under control, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to warn Americans to avoid nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In addition to raising the health threat […]
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Committee takes action in state agency document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee this week took steps to resolve its months-long document-shredding probe and to ensure the Maine Center for Disease Control’s shredding scandal doesn’t happen again to that department or any others in Maine. The Government Oversight Committee voted Thursday to: * Ask the Attorney General’s Office to form a task force […]
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Committee to notify AG of info in document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee will formally notify the Maine Attorney General’s Office that there may have been wrongdoing by officials at the Maine Center for Disease Control. Members of the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee unanimously voted Wednesday to send a letter to the AG’s Office letting it know they’ve received information suggesting CDC officials […]
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Lawmakers seek LePage response to labor report
The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee decided Wednesday to stay involved in two government transparency issues — document shredding at the Maine Center for Disease Control and intervention by Gov. Paul LePage and Maine Labor Department officials into unemployment insurance hearings. Committee members agreed Wednesday morning to send a letter to the Maine Attorney General’s Office […]
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Top Maine DHHS official leaves agency to return to private sector
AUGUSTA — The chief operating officer for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services is leaving his post to return to the private sector, according a spokesman for the agency. According to DHHS spokesman John Martins, William Boeschenstein Jr. of Cape Elizabeth, who served with DHHS since March 2011, will be replaced by Sam […]
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Former CDC official must give up medical info in whistle-blower suit
AUGUSTA — A former Maine Center for Disease Control division director who has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against the Maine Department of Health and Human Services must hand over more than three years worth of her diaries, medical records and mental health records, as well as the names of any doctor or mental health […]
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Report finds problems with how Maine CDC deals with diversity
AUGUSTA — An independent review of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention found, among other things, that the agency makes it difficult for staff members in different departments to work together, that it needs to better train its workers to deal with diverse groups of people and that some staff members feel managers […]
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CDC officials in document-shredding probe met previously about document policy
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee has received a summary of claims, inconsistencies and answers from six current and former Maine Center for Disease Control officials at the heart of the committee’s document-shredding probe. The Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability presented the 32-page summary to the Government Oversight Committee on Friday. The summary outlined […]
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DHHS leader denies knowing CDC documents would be shredded
LEWISTON — Commissioner Mary Mayhew emphatically denied Tuesday that she knew workers at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention planned to destroy public documents. “I did not direct, authorize, acknowledge the destruction of any documents,” Mayhew said during a meeting with the Sun Journal editorial board. However, the deputy director of the CDC […]
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Committee will seek more information in document-shredding probe
AUGUSTA — A legislative committee postponed action Friday in its Maine Center for Disease Control document-shredding probe. Members of the Government Oversight Committee decided they needed more information and asked to speak to representatives from the Secretary of State’s Office, the Office of Information Technology and the Maine State Archives at their next meeting in […]