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 land, which stretches from the Berkshires in Connecticut to the North Woods of Maine, stores about 9 million metric tons of carbon. And it also provides habitat for plants and animals that need to migrate due to climate change. -
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Unlike more than 570 tribes across the country, tribes in Maine have limited sovereignty under the state's Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980. -
The Maine Indian-Tribal State Commission is releasing an audio book Monday that examines how state policies have contributed to the decline of traditional fisheries and limited tribal peoples' access to them. -
The group is examining state laws that regulate changes in hospital ownership and termination of services. -
What's an easy way to delay getting a smartphone? For these parents, the answer to that riddle is: get a landline. -
They say Collins bears responsibility for the court's subsequent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. -
The announcement means that all Northern Light providers will remain in-network with Anthem for at least another month. -
The organization says the decision will affect hundreds of patients and is the result of a new federal law that bans providers who also offer abortions from billing Medicaid. -
As of Wednesday, October 1, non-hospital providers at Northern Light Health are out-of-network with Anthem.
