In 1865, American slavery ended with the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. Since that time, these things have happened: In 1871, fire destroyed the city of Chicago. In 1896, the Supreme Court legalized segregation. In 1906, an earthquake leveled the city of San Francisco. In 1929, the stock […]
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State to hold ACA info sessions in South Paris, Farmington
The Maine Bureau of Insurance will hold public sessions in South Paris and Farmington to provide information about the Affordable Care Act. The sessions will offer information about the new health insurance marketplace, also known as the exchange, as well as information on new health insurance plans being offered in Maine and the law’s other […]
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Shutdown deal in sight? Reid, McConnell optimistic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racing the clock, the Senate’s Democratic and Republican leaders closed in on a deal Monday night to avoid an economy-menacing Treasury default and end the two-week partial government shutdown. “We’ve made tremendous progress,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared after an intense day of negotiations with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and […]
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Maine nurses say Obamacare doesn’t go far enough, argue for universal coverage
PORTLAND — A Maine nurses group on Monday said President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, which is criticized by conservatives as overreaching, doesn’t go far enough toward universal health coverage. The Maine State Nurses Association held Monday afternoon health screenings and an evening “town hall” event at the First Parish Church on Congress Street in […]
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E. Williams: Medical insurance for Congress
This is in response to letters from Alison Jacobs and Janice Trapp in the Oct. 9 Sun Journal. Beginning in 2014, members of Congress will be required to get their medical insurance through insurance exchanges. They are not exempt from the mandate. Also, my daughter is thrilled that she no longer has a $15 per […]
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Rich Lowry: The Obamacare rollout train wreck
Nancy Pelosi infamously said that we had to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it. The then-House speaker erroneously assumed, evidently, that people would be able to get onto the government-run exchanges created by the law. So far the law’s implementation has been as ugly as its passage. The rollout of Obamacare has been […]
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Talks to end shutdown stall as McConnell urges Collins-brokered option
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that’s entering its third week. After inconclusive talks between President Barack Obama and House Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority […]
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C. Swanton: Put blame where it belongs
It is extremely disturbing to watch the debacle taking place in Washington, D.C. How could anyone who actually knows what is going on, expect the leaders of the Republican Party to go along with everything that the president, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi demand? The past five years have been a disaster. The Affordable Care […]
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M. Moize: History of being unreasonable
This is in response to Rich Lowry’s column (Oct. 7). There is more than enough blame to go around for Congress’ amazing ineptitude. However, Lowry missed the more important issue. More important than shutdown is a default of national debt, which Republicans seem happy to cause unless Democrats succumb to Republicans’ demand to defund Obamacare. […]
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Still shut down: Obama, GOP try to negotiate way out of impasse without appearing to negotiate
WASHINGTON (AP) — With time running short, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner accelerated efforts Friday to prevent the U.S. Treasury from default and end a partial government shutdown that stretched into an 11th day. The latest impacts: New aircraft grounded, military chaplains silenced and a crab harvest jeopardized in the Bering Sea. […]