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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Letter to the editor: Help build a movement to promote physical activity in schools
Thirty minutes a day. About half as long as the average American spends watching commercials or browsing Facebook. It’s also the amount of time that recently rejected legislation (L.D. 378) would have set aside for physical activity by schoolchildren in kindergarten through Grade 5. Fact-laden testimonies from those in the know showered support on the […]
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Letter to the editor: Denigration of white people in paper contributes to divisiveness
In Monday’s Press Herald, I read a Maine Voices column by Joshua Gear, a doctor from York, who mentions the Senate version of a new health care bill that was “crafted in secret by 13 hand-picked, older white men.” In the same edition, I read a letter from Mali O.B. Jones, a student at King […]
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Letter to the editor: Oust lawmakers who play politics instead of doing their job
How many Maine citizens have a job where they can work for six months and not get their job done, and suffer no consequences? I doubt there are any. Yet here we sit, facing a government shutdown because our elected officials act like spoiled children who won’t play well together, or cooperate, and nothing gets […]
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Letter to the editor: Take a stand to strengthen health care for all citizens
As health care coverage in the United States continues to receive incessant threats, it is time to take a stand. Eleven percent of American adults are uninsured, according to Gallup and Healthways, and the House Republicans’ American Health Care Act and the Senate Republicans’ Better Care Reconciliation Act would obliterate the possibility of reducing this […]
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Charles Krauthammer: If you’re not always going to win, why even play the game?
In sports, the pain of losing is greater than the pleasure of winning.
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Easing prisoners’ re-entry to the community leads to a better society
Only quality rehabilitative programs can transform prisoners into functioning members of society.
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
UMaine, Bigelow Lab win grants to aid oyster fishery
A joint study with funding from the National Science Foundation will examine a parasite that infects oysters.
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
PEOPLE PLUS PIC OF THE WEEK
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
Primary care practice opens at Parkview
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PublishedJune 30, 2017
KELT to present journaling workshops at LOCAL Garden in Bath
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