Update for This Week
This was a busy week in Augusta. On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted to add our Indian Representatives from the Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquaddy Tribe, to the roll call board. It was a historic moment for Maine. I am honored to have Rep. Wayne Mitchell and Rep. Donald Soctomah among us.
One of my bills has made it’s way back to me from the Revisor’s Office. The bill is a resolve to finally get a traffic light installed at the intersection of Route’s 126 and 132. Any of you who use the intersection regularly know how dangerous it is. Living on 126 and using the road on a daily basis, I have seen many major accidents and people who just ignore the stop sign and just drive on through. I have heard that the traffic light was scheduled to be put up last year. My resolve will just get the Maine DOT to move on the issue. I am working on getting my bill sponsors now. There will be a public hearing on this bill. I will post it when I have the date. If you are someone who has been waiting for this to happen, please take the time to come to the public hearing and express your concern.
Next week, I expect to have more of my bills coming out of the Revisor’s Office. I will post them here as I get the papers.
If you are a dairy farmer or if you know one, you may want to keep the milk issue from this week in mind. The Agriculture, Forestry and Conservation Committee is recommending that price supports to Maine’s dairy farmers be slashed by $4.8 million (http://bangornews.com/detail/97655.html). Senator Nutting from Leeds, who is a dairy farmer, is working on the issue. He has expressed to me that we need to get the small dairy farmers involved in the issue. At the hearing this past week, the big guys showed up, but very few of the small farmers where represented. When I get the date of the public hearing, I will be calling local dairy farmers from Greene and Sabattus. If you know of any, please e-mail me their contact information.
