Category: The Journey & Community
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Veterans’ Services Recognized
Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services Receives National Recognition for Homeless Veterans Advocacy On Tuesday, February 26, the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services (MBVS) received the 2019 Abraham Lincoln Pillar of Excellence Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for its work to end Veteran homelessness. This is the Bureau’s second consecutive Pillar of…
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Animal Welfare in Maine and Beyond
As previously promised, this month I will share some additional observations and thoughts about a recurrent issue in equine welfare, “rescuing the rescue.” Regardless of intentions, not all interventions for horses in need of human assistance have positive outcomes for the animals. On occasion, animals who are being abused or neglected, experience a well-meaning intervention,…
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High Cost of Your Prescription Drugs
Is the High Cost of Your Prescription Drugs Making You Sick? Millions of Americans take prescription drugs. For some, these medications are a temporary measure to help them recover from an illness or injury. For many people, however, prescription drugs represent the only defense they have against crippling pain. For others, prescription medications are literally…
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The Last Mile
One of my last assignments in the military was helping to get resources to our troops in the field. We found that it was easy to bring a full suite of digital tools to operational commands located on established forward operating bases but we struggled to bring these same tools to tactical units out in…
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Champions!
Congratulations to the New England Patriots! Kevin Duffy from the Boston Herald made an interesting observation the day before the big game – “an unusually high number of Patriots players come from military and law enforcement families.” According to Duffy about 1/5th of our champion Patriots grew up around the military. It’s a wonderful article…
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How’s Your New Year’s Resolutions?
It is February! By now you are either skinny, drinking 8 glasses of water every day, and driving around in a perfectly clean car or…you are among the other 92% who have already given up. This month’s article is definitely going to be about Special Olympics but I am also going to throw in a…
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