The Providence Journal (R.I.), July 1, 2015 Artificial trans fats, those once ubiquitous but dubious dietary substances, are heading for the door. The federal Food and Drug Administration has made it official, announcing last month that use of most trans fats will be banned starting in June of 2018. As it happens though, trans fats […]

DEAR DOCTOR K: I love to eat cereal for breakfast, but I’ve heard that many cereals aren’t all that healthy. What should I look for in a healthy cereal? DEAR READER: Walk into any grocery store and you’ll see shelves packed full of breakfast cereals all touting important health benefits. Labels and marketing promises on […]

On behalf of our 230,000 members in Maine, AARP congratulates the Maine State legislature for working together in the spirit of bi-partisanship to override Governor LePage’s veto and pass the state budget which includes restored funding for programs critical to many of Maine’s most at-risk residents. In particular, AARP Maine fought hard for funding for […]

Suddenly everybody’s talking about Joe Biden. That itself is a phenomenon. The nation’s first vice president, John Adams, described the job in a letter to his wife as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived,” and indeed he did little in it. Its later occupants ”“ and […]

How far is too far? That is the question being asked by the state’s bipartisan, investigative Government Oversight Committee (GOC). In the wake of Governor Paul LePage’s admission that he linked the withholding of funds for the Good Will-Hinckley school to their hiring of Speaker of the House Mark Eves, lawmakers on the GOC and […]

It happens every June. The third of the three branches of government becomes, for a week or two, the most important. That’s when the U.S. Supreme Court issues its decisions on major issues it has considered since last October. This year, the Supreme Court made several such decisions, the most widely known being the validation […]

For more than 25 years, the Maine Energy Recovery Company waste-to-energy incinerator was blamed for the stalled redevelopment of Biddeford’s downtown and nearby mill district, and earned the city the moniker “trash town.” Over the years, trucks loaded with waste from area communities and other states delivered rank odors that wafted through the downtowns on […]