Month: June 2020

This article reports on the first ‘quick start’ recommendations emerging from the Economic Recovery Committee. My own shorter-term priorities within the committee are as follows:

• Provide necessary means for safety modifications and testing to resume safe and reliable operations at schools and child care facilities.
• With special focus on those associated with the hospitality

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“…a roadmap for reopening that could demonstrate a potential alternative to the quarantine requirement and do a better job of protecting both public and economic health.”

“…Asked whether the sentinel testing system could also be applied to schools in the fall, MDI Hospital COO Chrissy Maguire said, “that’s really the vision we’re trying to get

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Since January, the Maine Climate Council’s working groups have been assembling, refining, and prioritizing recommendations to present to the full Council this week. You can now read these recommended strategies here:

• Buildings, Infrastructure, and Housing
• Community Resilience Planning, Public Health, and Emergency Management
  • Community Resilience Planning
  • Public Health
  • Emergency Management
• Coastal and Marine
• Energy

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Draft working document of proposal developed in partnership between MDI Hospital, Healthy Acadia, state legislative delegation, Jackson Lab, Acadia National Park, and administrators of the four MDI towns.…

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

As we enter these first weeks of June and businesses continue to face the challenges of reopening and modifying their operations to keep customers and communities safe, I want to provide another update on my legislative work and a reflection on the trauma of this time.

Working towards economic recovery…

“We’re prepared, I believe, to do this really quickly, like in the next two weeks,” State Rep. Brian Hubbell said Tuesday. “That would be really good, important baseline info in preparation for whatever happens this summer.”

• Community COVID-19 testing proposed, Mount Desert Islander, 3 June 2020

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