Maine’s Medical Meltdown
PUBLIC HEALTH · MEDICINE · WHITE HOUSE
Federal cuts and policy shifts have
severely disrupted biomedical
research funding in Maine, leading
to halted projects.
The phone call came in April. No
press release, no warning. Just a
curt message from the National
Institutes of Health: the $500,000
grant supporting vaccine research at
the MaineHealth Institute for
Research was gone.
Dr. Clifford Rosen, one of the lab’s
senior scientists, still remembers…
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The Border Was Just a
Line—Until It Wasn’t
COMMUNITY · VERMONT · QUEBEC
The Haskell Free Library and Opera
House, a century-old building
bisected by the US-Canada border,
has long.
By the time they told Canadians to
use the back door, the building had
already made its point.
For 121 years, the Haskell Free…
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Big Money, Small Towns: How
Outside Cash is Rewriting
Local Democracy
POLITICAL POWER · CAMPAIGNS · LOCAL GOVERNMENT
In the fading twilight of a chilly
North Carolina evening, a local
election in Sylva was decided by the…
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