PAC chief removed from post in Maine
Gov. James B. Longley announced the removal of Public Utilities Commission chairman Peter Bradford. Longley said he preferred a chairman closer to the middle on private versus public power issues. Bradford’s successor was not named in the notice.
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Tax Break Fight Highlights Maine Rail Bill And City Projects
In Augusta AP report the House rejects a one year limit on a 1974 tax break for Maine Central Railroad amounting to 619000 dollars. Biddeford eyes 355000 dollars under a housing and urban development plan with public hearings and a seven member development committee. City council debates power shifts, drainage and street equipment loans, hospital lighting, and a new police cruiser.
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Maine House Leaders Back Bill to Strengthen Public Lands Bureau
Maine lawmakers press a bill to empower the new Bureau of Public Lands to manage 400000 acres of public lots for recreation timber harvesting watershed protection hunting and fishing. Speaker John Martin Minority Leader Linwood Palmer and Majority Leader Neil Rolde support the measure despite concerns from Conservation Commissioner Donaldson Koons about duplication and workload. Camp leaseholders worry about impacts on their camps and cottages under a new management policy.
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Public Lands Bureau
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Budworm Bill Passes in Augusta Lawmaking Session
The Maine House enacted a 3.85 million spruce budworm control appropriation on a 105 to 28 vote, funding from general funds, a growth tax, and landowner taxes to spray about two million acres in spring. A ERA referendum bill failed, and a child abuse reporting bill won near-final approval.
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Budget Revision Triggers House Dispute in Augusta
In Augusta the House clashed over the governor's $703.4 million budget with Rep. Richard Carey proposing to send the budget back to Gov. James B. Longley for revision. Carey withdrew the motion after a GOP caucus opposed it, leaving Republican backers uncertain.
House approves budworm aid to Maine forests
The U S House advanced an amendment funding about 3.9 million to combat spruce budworm in northern Maine as part of a 21 million supplemental bill. It would require a 50 percent state match and aims to protect Maine forests, jobs, and timber industries from insect damage.
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Maine
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Cohen
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UM Post Pending Favorable Action on Libby Trustee Nomination
The Executive Council is expected to confirm retired educator Dr. Wintrop Libby as University of Maine trustee after supportive testimony from Rep. Louis Jalbert Sen. Theodore Curtis Jr. and former Gov. Robert N. Haskell. Libby urged a Maine postsecondary program including vocational technical institutions and the Maine Maritime Academy.
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