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Posted inFree, Politics
LePage speaks from inside car during protest of Maine coronavirus restrictions
During his remarks, LePage called the state’s 14-day quarantine “unconstitutional” and said that some other states including Wisconsin and Georgia have shown how to safely reopen their economies.
Posted inAroostook, Court News, Health, Nation, News, State
Kaci Hickox drops lawsuit for ‘Bill of Rights’ in quarantine cases
“[This] will ensure that no one will have to go through what I experienced in New Jersey, and that no one will be quarantined unless it is medically necessary to do so.”
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Concern about caravan crisis ends with the election
Color us cynical. We predicted this would happen.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Migrant ‘invasion’ is this year’s version of the Republican Ebola scare
A caravan of terrorists and criminals is not headed to America to invade our country. Don’t take our word for it. Listen to Fox News anchor Shep Smith.
Posted inCourt News, Nation, News, State
Nurse who sued Chris Christie over Ebola lockdown nears settlement
Kaci Hickox claims she was held illegally and unconstitutionally against her will as part of a mandatory quarantine for anyone returning from certain West African countries who treated patients with Ebola.
Posted inCourt News, Nation, News, State
Kaci Hickox lawyers argue lawsuit over quarantine should go forward
Attorneys for Kaci Hickox, the former Fort Kent nurse who treated Ebola patients in Africa, argued Tuesday that her federal lawsuit against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and public health […]
Posted inBDN Maine, Court News, Nation, News
Utah nurse, violently arrested for doing her job, reaches $500,000 settlement
“This landed in my lap. This is not something I sought out,” she said. “But I’m also honored by the weight of it and honored to be the one to help make progress in our society at large.”
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018: GOP split inevitable, Collins stands up for caregivers, viral hysteria
Letters to the editor for Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018: GOP split inevitable, Collins stands up for caregivers, viral hysteria.
Posted inNation, News, State
NJ Gov. Chris Christie, others ask for Kaci Hickox lawsuit to be thrown out
Gov. Chris Christie and other public health officials who are defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by Kaci Hickox, the nurse who lived in Fort Kent and was quarantined in New Jersey after returning from treating patients with Ebola in Africa during 2014, are asking the lawsuit be dismissed.
Posted inAroostook, Court News, Nation, News, State
Kaci Hickox suing New Jersey officials over Ebola quarantine
The nurse who lived in Fort Kent and was quarantined in New Jersey after returning last year from treating patients suffering from the Ebola virus in Africa sued Gov. Chris Christie and other New Jersey public health officials.
Posted inCourt News, News, State
Judge tosses Kaci Hickox’s civil rights claims against Gov. Chris Christie over Ebola quarantine
“I am glad that I will get my day in court,” Kaci Hickox said.
Posted inHealth, News, Portland, State
Kaci Hickox, Maine nurse who defied quarantine, details Ebola mission
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Much of the world has seen the photos of Kaci Hickox peering from a tent outside a New Jersey hospital. But on Tuesday evening, the Maine […]
Posted inAroostook, Health, News, State
Kaci Hickox among Ebola fighters, survivors named ‘Person of the Year’ by Time
FORT KENT, Maine — Kaci Hickox, the nurse who made national headlines recently when she defied Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s efforts to quarantine her after she returned from treating Ebola […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Contributor
Thank you, Kaci Hickox, for helping to stop an epidemic at its source
Thank you to Kaci Hickox, whose bravery and selflessness in going to Sierra Leone to fight Ebola helped all of us in Maine, the U.S. and the world. If we […]
Posted inThe Point
Kaci Hickox wants you to stop calling her the ‘Ebola nurse’
She’s left Fort Kent, but Kaci Hickox isn’t leaving the northern Maine town behind quietly. True to her word, the nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone before returning […]
