Month: April 2015

Dear Friends and Neighbors in Maine House District 135

As you may have heard, legislative leaders have recently presented an alternate proposal for the state budget.

This proposal reconfigures Maine’s tax structure differently from the way the Governor has outlined. Most significantly, this new proposal doesn’t leave a large unfunded hole in future …

April 12, 2015

Dear Friends and Neighbors in House District 135,

In your state legislature, we are now just over half way through this year’s session.

1335 bills have been published to date out of the perhaps 1600 or 1700 that we will deliberate before we adjourn.

You can see a list of the bills …

LD 2 An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for the Purchase and Development of the Bar Harbor Ferry Terminal as a Multimodal Transportation Facility

The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $5,000,000, will be used to purchase the Bar Harbor Ferry Terminal from the government of Canada and

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College Affordability Gap

Source: Report of the Commission to Study College Affordability and Completion Commission,  

To facilitate their understanding of college affordability and to quantify the current ability of Maine’s college students and their families to pay for a college education in Maine, the Commission made use of an Affordability Model developed for the …