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PublishedApril 12, 2011
Waste Management wants new law just for it
Waste Management in Norridgewock wants to expand, but not upwards, on the footprint of the land they already own. They want to break the 1989 law that said no commercial dump could expand on land they didn’t own in 1989. The Norridgewock landfill has about 12 years of capacity left. That law was put in […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2011
Bottle bills would lead to employees losing jobs
On Friday, the Joint Standing Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources will hold public hearings on LD 728 and LD 1063. L.D. 728 is designed to reduce truck travel caused by the bottle redemption laws. The force behind this act is the Maine Beverage Association, which claims wholesale delivery trucks use too much fuel picking […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2011
‘Actions speak louder than words’
I read Sen. Roger Katz’s column, “Government By Disrespect” in Monday’s newspaper. Katz and his colleagues well know they need damage control as our current governor and his indiscretions (to put it politely) have been the greatest recruiting incentive Maine Democrats and progressives have had in years. Distancing oneself from someone who is rapidly becoming […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2011
‘Robo-call’ against senator skewed the facts
Last week, I received an automated phone call from a group known as Americans for Prosperity criticizing our local state senator, Sen. David Trahan, R-Waldoboro, about votes made in the Taxation Committee. The caller said Trahan voted “against family farms and against repealing the death tax.” Those who know Dave like I do knew there […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
LePage supporter asks if he has ability to lead
My first-ever foray into politics was supporting Paul LePage’s quest to be governor. I attended rallies, donated money and spoke about LePage to everyone I met. I even put a sign on my lawn, which may not seem like a big thing to many, but for me it was a huge step in a direction […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
LePage, so far, has created only 1 job: his daughter’s
Gov. Paul LePage removing the mural shows how out of touch he is. The governor really missed the boat on the significance of the “worker’s mural.” If he were to travel this nation, he would find that Maine has a reputation of having some of the hardest working people in America. Our workforce should be […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
How one room in labor building got its name
I want to know which two communities in Maine are about to go bankrupt, as Gov. Paul LePage reported. Has he rescued them from the perils of financial ruin? If so, let’s give his administration kudos. If not, why not? How is LePage helping these communities stay afloat? Or were his remarks a lie to […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
Calculating LePage’s input, draw from retirement plan
Gov. Paul LePage’s communications director wrote a letter to the editor published March 22 in which he protested the contents of a column by Mike Tipping. Dan Demeritt disagreed with Tipping’s column for mischaracterizing the governor’s failure to require the same increase in his contribution to his retirement in his budget that he did for […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
Workers’ struggles are part of U.S., Maine history
Two views of the nature of workers’ struggles in the United States appeared in this paper on two consecutive days. On March 23, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recounted the tragic story of 146 women and girls, poor workers in a New York City sweatshop in 1911. They all died in a fire while working, […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
LePage’s actions mimic ‘behavior of tyrants’
It is distressing that Gov. Paul LePage has removed art from public view at the Department of Labor Complex. This is not the action of the government of a free society, which has fought to protect freedom of expression and freedom of speech, but has been the behavior of tyrants and dictators throughout history. Censorship […]
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