Title

A look at how some progressive ideas lost out in the last legislative session, i

Source

Maine Times

Date

4-2-1998

Pages

8-9

Abstract

A look at how some progressive ideas lost out in the last legislative session, including accountability requirements for companies getting tax breaks of over $250,000, a defeated plan to allow qualifying Maine high school graduates to receive their first year of college tuition free, a paper-company lobby that succeeded in killing a bill to add staff to monitor the Service Waters Toxics Control Program and increase permit fees for the paper companies, and proposals to halt the speedy sale of Maine's hydro-electric to out-of-state buyers. Related article on former House Speaker John Martin's sucessful lobby to amend the supplemental appropriations bill and spend $100,000 to rebuild a state-owned camp near the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. The last-minute amendment will build a different camp in a new location with a new owner, the University of Maine at Fort Kent, but retain the name Page Camp.

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