MEXICO — To explain the new subsidy hike for its 11 towns, Med-Care Ambulance will hold a meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 25, in its new building at 290 Highland Terrace. The hike has nothing to do with paying for the new building, Med-Care board President Steve Brown said. Rather, due to several unforeseen […]
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RSU 10 audit shows $572,000 carryover
DIXFIELD — Regional School Unit 10 business manager Mary Dailey told the board Monday night that a recently completed audit showed the district has about $572,000 it could use to pay bills or carry over to the 2015-16 budget. The money could be used to partially offset $388,000 owed by the nutrition program or the […]
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Lewiston woman admits to welfare fraud
AUBURN — A Lewiston woman who claimed her daughter was living with her so she could collect welfare was sentenced Friday to spend three months in jail. Prosecutors said Jessica Jordan, 36, of 75 Summer St. lied on state documents to indicate her now-16-year-old daughter had lived with her from August 2013 to February 2014, […]
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Suit settlement benefits adults with disabilities
AUGUSTA (AP) — Adults in Maine with autism and intellectual disabilities will receive housing and other support services through the state’s Medicaid program thanks to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit. The settlement, completed Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court, was welcomed by Gerald Petruccelli, the plaintiffs’ attorney. He told the Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1xRNOTx ) […]
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P. Hoffman: MaineCare should be expanded
The Affordable Care Act is working well for many Mainers, especially those whose health insurance premiums were high, or who had pre-existing medical conditions preventing them from being covered. However, there are a significant number of people and their families who have been blocked from having health coverage at all. Gov. Paul LePage vetoed the […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
MaineCare ride program off to better start with new broker
LogistiCare scheduled roughly 40,000 rides to doctor’s offices, therapy and other MaineCare-related appointments around Maine in the last week of August. According to the state’s figures, it missed 40. “We’d like to get it down to zero missed trips, (but) it’s a much healthier number than we were a year ago,” Stefanie Nadeau, director of […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
License issued to embattled mental health facility after review
RUMFORD — State regulators said they found no major problems during their periodic review of a mental health facility accused of cheating the state out of funding. Last week, Oxford County Mental Health was issued a summons by the U.S. District Court in Portland to answer a former employee’s allegations that the nonprofit did not […]
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State House candidates get start on fall campaigns at Lewiston forum
LEWISTON — Candidates hoping to win a seat or re-election to the Maine Legislature later this year made one of their first public forum appearances during a Maine People’s Alliance forum at the Lewiston Public Library on Thursday. The two-hour event was dominated by Democratic incumbents, but at least one Republican and one independent candidate […]
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L. Sanborn, in rebuttal: Turned their backs on health care
The Sun Journal story “More money, less money: The effects of not expanding MaineCare,” (July 20) rightly detailed the negative impact of the state’s decision to turn down federal Medicaid dollars for life-saving health care. It is unfortunate that Gov. Paul LePage and his allies in the state Legislature turned their backs on health care […]
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F. Lewis: Where are the jobs?
I realize that the brainiac Gov. Paul LePage tries to save money and spend it at the same time, but it doesn’t work that way. LePage says there are about 12,000 people who shouldn’t be collecting food stamps; they have to get jobs. What a laugh. Where in the heck does he think he is […]