This alternative vision is offered as a concept for interested parties to consider, evaluate, discuss and, we hope, adopt as a better way to move forward.

Maine has effectively eliminated all household products that contain mercury from store shelves and the waste stream. Maine?s ?can-do? common sense approach is leading the nation in reducing the toxic mercury in our environment.

They have no right to develop this land unless they put a persuasive case in front of the people of Maine.

We believed then, and we believe even more strongly now, that it's the wrong development in the wrong place.

Some people have said that the only game in town is the Plum Creek plan. We believe that there is another way.

I started a guitar school. It was called Home of the Blues, on 125th Street in New York. I did that for five, six years and had a lot of students.