September 8, 2009 -- Matt Jacobson, President and CEO of Maine & Company, a private, non-profit corporation which attracts businesses to establish themselves in Maine, was a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and after his discharge continued on in the Air Force active reserve until 2000.
I had the opportunity to sit down at Starbucks Coffee in Bangor to talk to candidate Matt Jacobson about Plum Creek, LURC, local control, and opportunity in Maine.
"LURC, it seems to me that there's a faction of people who want to use LURC and turn northern Maine into a national park and forbid any kind of opportunity.
"I think that this is one of those cases where local control is really important. The people in northern Maine ought to decide the development and the plans for northern Maine, not bureaucrats out of Augusta…"
Listen to part 1 of the interview here:
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"In Maine right now, 25% of our kids drop out of high school. Within ten years of starting high school, only 25% have a one-, two-, or four-year degree. So that means that within ten years of high school, half the kids -- their highest attainment is high school. That's not good enough...I recruit companies every day, and not one of them has ever asked me for an ignorant workforce."
Listen to part 2 of the interview here:
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