WASHINGTON — The outbreak of the extraordinarily lethal Ebola virus has worsened in West Africa, with the contagion showing no sign of coming under control, prompting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday to warn Americans to avoid nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In addition to raising the health threat […]
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Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Company responds to chemical weapon allegation
In the Bangor Daily News article the Sun Journal published on Sept 9, 2013 titled “Report says Winslow company sold Syria vaccines that were stockpiled as chemical weapon precursor” you state that “a Winslow company’s illegal sale of vaccines used on birds in the early 1990’s has been linked by the New York Times to […]
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Audits cite serious problems in the state’s day-to-day operations
That’s because the state has no well-documented disaster recovery plan and doesn’t run periodic disaster tests. Thousands of Mainers may be taking advantage of the unemployment system run by the Maine Department of Labor, forcing the state to spend millions of dollars more than it should. Or not. No one really knows. One-third of the […]