The LePage administration released an extensive list late Friday of critical operations that must continue.
Eric Russell
Staff Writer
Eric Russell has been a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2012 and has been a journalist in Maine since 2004. Because he doesn’t have a specific geographic or topical area to cover, Eric often is free to roam the state in pursuit of the most interesting stories, whether it’s tackling the big topic of the day or chasing ideas that fall just outside the boundaries of everyday news. His favorite assignments are ones where he can leave the office and meet with people in their homes or their workplaces to talk about their struggles and challenges – and sometimes their triumphs. Or to try and answer complicated questions. Eric grew up in Southern Maine, went to college at the University of Maine and worked in Bangor for eight years before joining the Press Herald. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, a school teacher, and two daughters.
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Maine shows steady decline in number of children enrolled in public health care programs
More than 66,000 children in the state have gone off Medicaid and CHIP since 2011, a 27 percent drop that bucks the national trend, according to federal data.
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Maine Senate gives initial approval to bill aimed at lowering prescription prices
The measure would require brand-name pharmaceutical companies to make drug samples available to FDA-approved generic producers after the patent expires.
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Maine Senate backs bill to raise minimum age for buying tobacco to 21
The legislation wins broad support even though it would cut into state revenues, but additional votes and action by the governor remain.
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Massachusetts man pleads guilty to embezzling from Maine boatyard
Steven Nygren, 50, wrote unauthorized checks to himself totaling $732,000 and made an additional $62,000 in unauthorized charges to company credit cards of Brooklin Boat Yard, federal prosecutors say.
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Law license of former York County probate judge suspended for 2 years
The state’s highest court again sanctions Robert Nadeau, now a Biddeford attorney, for multiple violations of Maine’s code of judicial conduct.
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Thousands of dead fish spoil the scent of early summer in Brunswick
The stench persists even after a cleanup removes thousands of pogies from the shore, and officials say the fisherman who released them did nothing illegal.
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Crash stalls traffic on I-295 northbound in Bowdoin
The accident closed a stretch of the interstate for nearly two hours
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Chaos of 1991 shows potential impact of government shutdown
The only template that exists is when Maine government, without an approved budget, shut down for 16 days in 1991.
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Bail granted for Farmington man accused of murdering infant son 38 years ago
Burton Hagar, 62, is charged in connection with the death of 4-month-old Nathan Hagar in May 1979, a death that was originally attributed to sudden infant death syndrome.