Western Mountains newspaper The Irregular chats with Peter Mills about his legislative experience and family.
This administration fails to measure the effectiveness of public programs. Without transparent systems by which to hold agencies accountable for results, the governor has resorted to cutting budgets across the board, the good performers along with the bad.
Peter addresses the Jobs Jobs Jobs refrain we’re hearing from so many aspiring politicians with details on what he has done in the legislature to improve Maine’s business climate while also preserving the Maine landscape that we cherish.
I grew up working summers for my father’s lobster and marine worm business in Gouldsboro. After graduating from the University of Maine at Machias, I interned in Sen. Susan Collins’ D.C. office where I began following the 2006 gubernatorial election. One candidate grabbed my attention: state Sen. Peter Mills. In reading “Changing Maine: 1960-2010,” Peter’s chapter on tax and budget policy impressed me with its classic Republican sense of assessing the use and value of tax money…
WCSH anchor Pat Callaghan interviews Senator Peter Mills. They discuss Mills’ legislative experience, the gubernatorial campaign, state revenues, education funding, and the Republican Party.
Maine Sen. Peter Mills, another task force member, came up with a proposal that he felt would protect Maine’s interests.
“I want cheap power and I want our generators to have a crack at that corridor at a fair price,” Mills said Thursday. “If the corridor proposal fails to contain those two, then it ought to be denied.”
Peter Mills discusses Hydro Quebec’s energy corridor proposal and wind power development in Maine.
Senator Peter Mills put in a bill request to comply with federal educational criteria so Maine can qualify for ‘Race to the Top’ funding. The criteria include state authorized charter schools.
Senator Mills’ proposal would require state regulators to deny any energy corridor project that does not “enhance opportunities for energy generation within the state” and “significantly and measurably reduce electricity rates and energy costs for Maine ratepayers.”
Like many Maine kids, I left home to attend college out of state. Like many Maine kids, I returned four years later in search of an opportunity to live and work in an area I’ve known all my life…
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