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Lack of COVID-19 data on people with intellectual disabilities ‘comes with a body count’

Peter Prater’s family wasn’t thinking about COVID-19 when the call came that he had been taken to the hospital with a fever. It was April, and the Tallahassee Developmental Center, where Prater lives, hadn’t yet had any COVID-19 diagnoses. Prater, 55, who has Down syndrome and diabetes, became the Florida center’s first known case, his […]

Posted inTimes Record Opinion

The Maine Idea: Republicans, and business, win the first round

The first significant controversy of Maine’s new legislative session is over, and the surprising winners are the minority Republicans. They were playing on their home turf, admittedly. The issue was a seemingly obscure point of “tax conformity” concerning PPP loans offered to businesses, including non-profits, as part of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that was […]