Last week, Lois Skillings stepped down as the President of Mid Coast-Parkview Health after 11 years. When I came to Oasis seven years ago, one of the first calls I received was from Lois, inviting me to meet with her. During that first meeting, she shared with me that she had been a volunteer nurse […]
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Danny Tyree: Brother, can you spare an excuse?
Middle-class philanthropy may be dying. Citing a study released by the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, “National Review” magazine says the share of American households donating to charity nosedived from 66 percent in 2000 to 50 percent in 2018. And only one-third of the decline was directly attributable to economic hardships, with the […]
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Sheriff says gunman didn’t know California dance hall victims
Before the shooting, Huu Can Tran parked a motorcycle just a block away from the ballroom in Monterey Park, which investigators believe he had planned to use as a backup getaway vehicle.
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NBA roundup: Harden, Maxey lead 76ers past Nets, 137-133
Philadelphia wins its sixth straight.
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Maine leaders call for new federal clean car standards
The diverse group wants the Biden administration and EPA to mandate higher gas mileage vehicles in a new round of clean car standards for new vehicles made after 2027 through 2035 to protect Maine’s economy, health and environment.
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Joe Guzzardi: Interior Department’s misguided ‘Restoring America’ program
A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive Order 14008, which announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water – 41.5 million acres per year – by 2030. On May 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior published “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” a preliminary report about what’s […]
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NFL notebook: Chiefs’ coach says QB Patrick Mahomes plans to play in AFC final
Mahomes suffered a high ankle sprain in Kansas City’s win in the divisional round, but Andy Reid said his QB is preparing to play.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ ‘Spare’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Top Biden aide Ron Klain expected to soon leave White House
The personnel change is a rarity for an administration that has had minimal turnover so far.
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Sections of Balkan river choked by floating garbage
River fencing installed by a hydroelectric plant has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, activists complain.