To the Editor:

The LePage administration announced the launch of a new online portal so “job creators have access to a one-stop repository of information about starting a business in Maine.”

Reading the news release brought on an overpowering sense of “deja vu all over again.” When I worked in a state agency in Maine 30 years ago, we coordinated with business agencies to initiate onestop shopping for business permits. Indeed, every administration in the past four decades, from Curtis to Longley to Brennan to McKernan to King to Baldacci, has promoted a variation on one-stop permitting information.

So it’s great the LePage administration is touting efforts to streamline permitting information with online tools.

But no one should think LePage is the first politician in Maine to advocate making the rules easy to understand.

Jym St. Pierre
Brunswick