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Better planning could have headed off Lewiston hospital mess | Douglas Rooks (opens the original)
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Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is now available. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. The vote last week by Central Maine Medical Center nurses in Lewiston to unionize says a good deal about organizing prospects in the state, but even more about the mismanagement of Maine hospitals. Driven by the perverse incentives of fee-for-service reimbursement, hospitals compete for a larger share of the revenue pi
What endorsements tell us about the race for Maine governor | Douglas Rooks (opens the original)
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Read all of our coverage of Maine's 2026 election or stay up to date with the latest developments through the Maine Political Report in your inbox or text messages from politics editor Kirby Wilson. Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is now available. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. It’s long been said that candidate endorsements don’t sway many votes, and that’s probably still true. Donald Trump’s end
Aroostook wind project should spur new public power authority | Douglas Rooks (opens the original)
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Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is now available. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. If all goes well, Maine will host a gigantic wind farm in southeastern Aroostook County by sometime in the 2030s, producing electricity for the New England grid and advancing the shift to renewable energy the world desperately needs to stave off the worst effects of now-inevitable global warming. Last month, Maine Publ
Trump is a big problem for Maine Republicans | Douglas Rooks (opens the original)
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Read all of our coverage of Maine's 2026 election or stay up to date with the latest developments through the Maine Political Report in your inbox or text messages from politics editor Kirby Wilson. Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is out now. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. One of the old saws of politics is that the state of the races on Labor Day is pretty much the way things turn out in November.
Schools could figure out AI before the rest of us | Douglas Rooks (opens the original)
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Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is now available. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. In simpler times, almost all Maine school districts started classes right after Labor Day. There were significant advantages to this uniformity: vacation weeks were the same from district to district, regional tech centers’ schedules synced and employers relying on student labor could count on a big finish to the summe
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