Posts tagged as "Maine"
Misguided Priorities
The newspapers agree… the Governor’s proposed budget cuts to important services like MaineCare are a bad idea that will just hurt Maine more in the long run! Here are some excepts from recent editorials: “Maine is a state whose people are proud of their historic commitment to helping those in need. Have we become so [...]
Maine Can Do Better and Moveon.org Launch New Webpage Highlighting Mainers Opposition to Governor LePage’s Budget
AUGUSTA (Maine) – The Maine Can Do Better Coalition and moveon.org are teaming up this week to launch a new webpage highlighting the names of thousands of Maine residents who have signed a petition, sponsored by Moveon.org, in opposition to Governor Paul Lepage’s budget. The petition reads: “Paul LePage’s budget would cut to the bone. [...]
Hundreds Rally to Urge Senators Snowe and Collins to Support Maine Jobs and Families
More than one-hundred Maine Can Do Better coalition members gathered in Portland’s Lobsterman’s Park yesterday, calling on Maine’s U.S. Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, to support the H.R. 4213, the Jobs Bill that has stalled in the Senate. “Failure to pass the Jobs Bill would have devastating consequences to critical health services, unemployed workers, [...]
Rally Set to Urge Senator’s Snowe and Collins to Support the Jobs Bill
Hundreds plan to rally tomorrow in Lobsterman’s Park in Portland to urge Senator’s Snowe and Collins to support H.R. 4213, an important jobs bill! Will you be there? Here are the event details: Where: Lobsterman’s Park, in front of the Nickelodeon Theatre in Portland When: Wednesday, June 30th at 12:00pm H.R. 4213 will extend unemployment [...]
Advocates Urge Congress to Extend Unemployment Benefits, Health Care Assistance, and Aid to States
From the Maine Center for Economic Policy: Augusta, Maine (Thursday, June 3, 2010)— Advocates supporting the extension of critical federal support for economic recovery today called on the members of Maine’s Congressional Delegation to continue their support for important federal assistance to state Medicaid programs to help states, like Maine facing significant fiscal crisis, as [...]
Maine’s Budget in Jeopardy
Next week H.R. 4213, also known as the Extenders Bill, heads to the U.S. Senate for a vote. This bill plays a vital role in protecting health care services for Maine families and health care job in Maine. Sadly however, this bill and Maine’s budget are now in jeopardy! Originally the bill was supposed to [...]
“Education is our most severe crisis, and the danger is increasing”
The Portland Press Herald published an important and thoughtful “Maine Voices” piece today written by James Gale, a 7th and 8th grade math teacher from Bath. “BATH — It is no secret that among industrialized nations, our high school students perform at the bottom of the list in math and sciences. School administrators, presidents and [...]
“Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society”
As citizens we are all benefit from public programs and services. We’ve decided that public safety, education, and transportation play an important role in our prosperity. Sometimes, however, we fail to recognize that taxes are how we fund those services. Here’s an excerpt from a great blog post on Alliance for a Better Minnesota, written [...]
What would you do to create 3,000 jobs in Maine?
That very question is what Maine’s Senate is confronted with today, as it works to pass an $85 million dollars bond package, LD 1826. This bond package could bring more than 3,000 jobs to Maine. Creating jobs is an extreme priority for Maine and the nation right now, especially in a time when almost 32,000 [...]
Maine’s Supplemental Budget takes a Responsible Approach
After two months of work, on Monday night (2.22.10), the house appropriations committee voted to unanimously approve Maine’s supplemental budget. Thanks to new revenues from the 2009 federal stimulus bill and a newer companion measure that together will directly infuse $114 million into the state budget (both of which had the support of Maine’s U.S. [...]