Patty Wight
News Reporter and HostPatty is a graduate of the University of Vermont and a multiple award-winning reporter for Maine Public Radio. Her specialty is health coverage: from policy stories to patient stories, physical health to mental health and anything in between. Patty joined Maine Public Radio in 2012 after producing stories as a freelancer for NPR programs such as Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She got hooked on radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and hasn’t looked back ever since.
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The lawsuit says they were paid inflated rates under a health plan that provides care for acting and retired military service personnel and their families.
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The year-long grant will supplement other state and federal funding for the response to the tragedy.
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Commercial and industrial businesses located within 20 miles of an organics recycler and that generate two or more tons of food waste a week will be required to divert it from landfills.
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Facing a fiscal crisis, Tri-County Mental Health Services in Lewiston is asking to be acquired by the behavioral health services non-profit Spurwink to avoid closing its doors.
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Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that aims to protect health care providers who provide reproductive and transgender health care.
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Pat Collins moved to the state to attend the University of Maine. She later became the first female chair of the university system's Board of Trustees, as well as the first elected female mayor of Caribou, where she lived the rest of her life.
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Both parents and the grandmother have been charged with depraved indifference murder.
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Maine's attorney general has found determined that a police officer was justified in the shooting of a South Portland man last August.
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The median price of homes in Maine in January reached $353,000, according to the Maine Association of Realtors. That's an increase of more than 8% compared to a year ago.
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Secretary of State Shenna Bellows says that of more than 84,000 signatures collected, roughly 76,000 have been deemed valid.