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Cathy Newell, past president of the Exchange, was there for the Grand Opening.
The Bethel Area District Exchange, a nonprofit organization that supports a food pantry that helps people in crisis, celebrated a Grand Re-opening today in a new location.
The Exchange takes donated clothing and resells it to raise money to provide folks who are in trouble with food. This organization, and its many volunteers, do inspiring work.
The Protect Maine Votes/Yes on 1 campaign has released its first television ad of the campaign.
The ad does a great job of explaining why the issue of same-day voter registration is so important. But the campaign needs our help to get the ad on the air. I hope you’ll check it out, consider helping if you can and share it with all of your friends.
Voting rights are worth fighting for. Vote Yes on 1 on November 8th.
Former Marine Resources Commissioner Norman Olsen offered a peek inside the inner workings of the LePage administration yesterday when he abruptly resigned his position.
In a lengthy public statement, Olsen laid out a stinging indictment of the governor and his unwillingness to stand up to special interests, support his rhetoric with action and manage state government. Olsen went so far as to predict that the administration would cover up a report that would be unflattering to the department and some members of the fishing industry.
But there was one piece of information, if true, that demonstrates a dangerous vindictiveness on the … Read more at Rosa's Blog »
Another disturbing national trend has come to Maine — efforts to keep people from voting. Gov. LePage and his allies in the Legislature are moving our state in the wrong direction on voting. We should be making it easier for people to participate, not harder.
I hope you’ll check out my post on Huffington Post.
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