Kelley Bouchard writes about what’s happening in Maine and beyond, with a focus on South Portland, Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth and other communities in Cumberland County. Her interests include housing, immigration, human rights, history, aging issues, sustainability, the environment and the untold story. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. Before joining the staff of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram in 1998, she was a reporter for 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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PublishedFebruary 1, 2013
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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PublishedFebruary 1, 2013
Maine man wins ‘Today Show’ wing cook-off
Malcolm Bedell’s Apricot-Shellacked Ghost Chili Chicken Wings took top honors.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2013
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.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2013
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.’
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2013
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.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2013
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.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2013
Maine speakers testify against human services cutbacks
Nearly 100 people speak out against Gov. Paul LePage’s proposed cuts to the state DHHS budget.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2013
Oversight of Maine health-insurance fund questioned
The board in control of fees used to keep down rates on individual policies acts in private.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2013
Health insurance reform faces scrutiny
Critics say the 2011 law hurt small, rural firms; backers counter that it has increased options and cut costs.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2013
LePage wants to pay off hospital debt
He says if the Legislature approves his plan, then he will issue the $105 million in voter-approved bonds.
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