| News Tipoffs - Maine Editors Newsletter for Thursday March 28, 2024 ( 5 items ) |
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Maine Gov. Mills and MaineHousing Announce Construction of 105 New Affordable Rental Units
AUGUSTA, Maine, March 27 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on March 26, 2024:
During remarks today to the Greater Portland Council of Governments Regional Housing Summit, Governor Janet Mills announced that MaineHousing will finance the construction of 105 new affordable rental units in rural Maine communities as the result of a bill she recently signed into law.
The one and two-bedroom units - in Hallowell, Newcastle, Rockport, Rumford, Sanford, and Waterville -
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Maine Gov. Mills Cuts Ribbon to Formally Open New UMF Community Child Care Center Funded In Part by Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan
AUGUSTA, Maine, March 28 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following news release on March 27, 2024:
Governor Janet Mills today cut the ribbon to formally open the University of Maine at Farmington's (UMF) new Sweatt-Winter Child Care and Early Education Center. U.S. Senator Susan Collins, UMF President Joe McDonnell, and early childhood education students currently attending the University were also in attendance.
Funding for the new center and related early childhood educator workforc
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MAINE SENATE DEMOCRATIC: SENATE GIVES BIPARTISAN SUPPORT TO SEN. BRENNER BILL TO IMPROVE PATIENT-NURSE RATIOS AND PATIENT SAFETY
AUGUSTA, Maine, March 28 -- The Maine Senate Democrats issued the following news on March 27, 2024:
On Wednesday, the Maine Senate gave initial support to a bill from Sen. Stacy Brenner, D-Scarborough, to help improve patient safety and hospital staff morale by setting minimum patient-nurse ratios in Maine. An amended version of LD 1639, "An Act to Address Unsafe Staffing of Nurses and Improve Patient Care," received a bipartisan vote of 22-13.
"The nursing field is full of dedicated individu
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Md. A.G. Brown Supports Efforts to Undo 2020 Rule That Weakens HealthCare Nondiscrimination Protections
BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 28 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release on March 27, 2024:
Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief (https://www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/News%20Documents/032724_BAGLY_Amicus_Brief_Exhibit_.pdf) in Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth (BAGLY), et al. v. United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), et al.
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NOAA: Lost Skulls and Latin - How Scientists Chose Names for Newly Identified Killer Whale Species
WASHINGTON, March 28 (TNSres) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center issued the following feature story on March 27, 2024:
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A California whaler sent his manuscript to the Smithsonian, but it ended up elsewhere.
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The scientist who first named different species of killer whales on the West Coast of North America probably never saw one.
The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution had invited Edward Drinker Cope to review a manuscr
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