MDOT has stated that its own plan to eliminate all street parking in downtown Wiscasset will save a meager 12 seconds and, ironically, that savings will be lost within a few months as traffic increases. Meanwhile a death-knell will be sounded for Main Street businesses who pay taxes and generate municipal revenue and provide jobs […]

I am writing as a concerned patron of the shops in Wiscasset, a driver and parker, and a concerned citizen about the UNFOUNDED FEARS of the shop owners, as indicated in their affidavits posted on the Wiscasset town website. Many are friends and I do not want them to have fears of any nature. I […]

I am writing concerning the Main Street Project in Wiscasset. The Maine Department of Transportation offered to bring improvements to the summer traffic situation in town and presented three options to the citizens. By a wide margin the citizens of Wiscasset accepted Option 2. This plan included limiting interference with traffic by eliminating diagonal parking […]

I fully support MDOT’s Wiscasset Downtown Improvement Project with the Option 2 design for the following reasons. Safety: Having parking on Main Street is a major safety issue for both drivers and pedestrians. Drivers cannot see oncoming traffic or pedestrians when attempting to back out of any one of the on-street parking spaces. Drivers such […]

The people who we elect to represent us in the Maine legislature are supposed to do that … represent us. Aren’t they? Judging by the taxation committee’s recent 9 – 2 vote “ought to pass” on LD 1781, a bill to give $60 million in tax giveaways to General Dynamics, apparently, some of them don’t. […]

The budget is a moral document in that, how we spend public tax dollars clearly represents and reflects the kind of society we choose to be. Every dollar spent on corporate blackmail, based on greed not need, is a dollar not going to healthcare, education, homelessness … General Dynamics is blackmailing the State of Maine […]

Bruce Gagnon’s extensive research and outreach has pulled together a great many people from various walks of life in this campaign opposing LD 1781. We are standing for what we believe to be fair and right for people and planet rather than for profit. Bruce Gagnon is my friend. He is a gifted organizer and […]

No contested local primaries for either the state House or Senate.