Some insurance companies balk, but advocates say it will save money
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BY ETHAN WILENSKY-LANFORD, Staff Writer
Last November, Dr. Jonathan Shenkin, a pediatric dentist in Augusta and president of the Maine Dental Association, saw a 4-year-old patient for the first time in that child’s life. The child’s teeth had significant damage and needed five or six [...]

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By Beth Brogan, Times Record Staff
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Friday, February 19, 2010 2:07 PM EST
BRUNSWICK — Brunswick school officials and local legislators this week continued their efforts to address significant cuts to state aid to education that will likely contribute to a $4 million chasm in the budget for 2010-11.
However, those efforts followed different paths, and recently [...]

Maine veterans say national security at risk with climate change
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By David Carkhuff
Staff writer
david@portlanddailysun.me
Climate change is a national security issue, according to two Maine military veterans who served in Iraq.
Andrew Campbell of Portland was part of a group of military veterans who toured the country promoting clean, sustainable energy as a matter of national security. [...]

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By David Carkhuff
Staff writer
david@portlanddailysun.me
A press conference about wind power, scheduled for 10 a.m. at the State House, underscores some of the disagreements over what represents clean energy in Maine.
The Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power will hold a press conference to make a “major announcement” concerning Gov. John Baldacci’s policy to mandate the deployment [...]

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In a Nov. 2009 article the Apollo Alliance published about veterans green jobs training programs, we interviewed an Iraq war veteran, Alex Cornell du Houx, who is part of an effort by national security and veterans organizations to draw attention to the national security threat that’s created by climate change.
In that article, Cornell du [...]

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by Tiffany Gibson
The National Veterans Tour for Clean Energy and Security stopped in Las Vegas Saturday to discuss clean energy options and how alternative projects will help decrease America’s dependence on foreign resources. (Left) Military veterans Robin Eckstein, Chuck Tyler, Patrick Bellon, Sen. Harry Reid and Sgt. Alex Cornell du Houx of the U.S. [...]

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by Tiffany Gibson
As Americans’ dependency on oil and foreign resources increases, military veterans and clean energy activists are traveling the country to educate citizens about what they say will be the repercussions of outsourcing energy.
The Operation Free coalition’s National Veterans Tour for Clean Energy and Security kicked off the two-month [...]

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By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. John Baldacci will be among 11 governors meeting with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House today to discuss a broad range of energy issues.
Baldacci spokesman David Farmer said most of the administration’s top officials dealing with energy issues — including [...]