Required reporting of mistakes and public access to the data also will aid in healing.
2012
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Momentum growing for petition protesting health care cuts
Some state lawmakers have said they support the movement.
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India achieves a milestone: No new polio cases in the past year
NEW DELHI – India has gone a full year without recording a new case of polio, a significant benchmark for the South Asian nation and an encouraging development for health professionals fighting to eradicate the stubborn disease worldwide. But experts warned that premature declarations of victory could lead to complacency among Indian parents, who might […]
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Our View: Gov. LePage should go to NAACP breakfast
The governor’s office belongs to everyone, not just the incumbent’s friends and supporters.
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Haitians mark second anniversary of earthquake that killed 316,000
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians marked the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake with church services across the deeply religious country Thursday on a national holiday of remembrance. The government has said the disaster killed 316,000 people and displaced 1.5 million. More than 500,000 Haitians are still in temporary settlement camps. “We need to keep […]
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Cape Wind: Doubt cast on start date
The offshore energy company disagrees with a report that predicts it won’t be supplying power by mid-2015.
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Methane, soot key to slowing global warming, scientists say
WASHINGTON – An international team of scientists says it’s figured out how to slow global warming in the short run and prevent millions of deaths from dirty air: Stop focusing so much on carbon dioxide. They say the key is to reduce emissions of two powerful and fast-acting causes of global warming: methane and soot. […]
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College Connections: Friends push each other at Bates
Two of the Bobcats’ top women’s basketball players have played together since they were South Portland middle schoolers.
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Justice Department review says Obama recess appointments legal
The Senate was on a break despite its pro forma tactic, the legal opinion says, but Republicans are up in arms.
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Dispatches
Armed man robs Portland credit union / Whooping cough cases quadruple / Man shot after police chase pleads not guilty / . . . and other news from around Maine.