The fund would reimburse farmers whose water or fields are contaminated by PFAS for testing and clean up, lost crops and herds, farm transitions or buyouts, and long-term health monitoring.
Maine Voices: Land for Maine’s Future has impact on businesses, communities statewide
Supporting the LMF program will help to protect the lifestyle and the places we hold dear.
By Ben WhalenSpecial to the Press Herald
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Maine’s identity is built upon its natural resource industries. Forestry, farming, fishing and recreation are the lifeblood of Maine’s economy and communities. These industries provide jobs, food and outdoor enjoyment across all of Maine’s 16 counties and play a critical role in the stewardship of the lands that sustain them. A new Land for Maine’s Future bond is needed to ensure that Maine’s natural and working lands – and the businesses and people they support – will flourish for generations to come.
and ben whalen, head speechwriter for governor pete willisen in the 1990s and research fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university. bill, thank you for joining us. i ll start with you, our resident california expert, california republican on the panel, when you look at where your party in california is now, and where it was, where we started this 20 years ago, when pete wilson was governor what has happened? hispanic problem is part of the problem, no doubt about it. it is a three fold problem for republicans and it is a cautionary tale as republicans go nationally. you re having an election on tuesday in virginia and which the democrats are expected not just to win the governorship, but sweep pretty much up and down the ticket with one office, i believe, the exception. why are they doing this in virginia? because they have tapped into three blocks that republicans had problems with. hispanic voters, women voters and millennial voters. if you look at republicans in califo