Dick Campbell – Maine House Republicans

Continuing work to resolve Maine’s housing challenges

Letter: Continuing work to resolve Maine’s housing challenges by Opinion Contributor Updated September 25, 2023 Being a design/build passive solar energy-efficient green contractor-developer for 50 years, coupled with my service on the Maine Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Housing, it is apparent that the need for newer, creative, and more plentiful affordable housing options for more than …

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Maine Wire: Republicans Want Nuclear Power Back in Maine

By Steve Robinson March 14, 2023 Two Republican lawmakers are looking to bring nuclear power back to Maine. Reps. Mark Walker (R-Baldwin) and Richard Campbell (R-Orrington) both have bills in that could potentially open the door to the generation of electricity using nuclear power in Maine for the first time since 1996. Campbell’s bill would provide subsidies …

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Maine lawmaker sees malls as the solution to the housing shortage

Article appearing in the Bangor Daily News by Lori Valigra When Cyrus Butler built the country’s first enclosed shopping mall in 1828, its large foyer and distance from other retail shops in Rhode Island’s capital of Providence quickly earned it the nickname “Butler’s Folly.” For a long time, it was an apt moniker. But the mall’s …

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Marketing Maine’s Technical Education

In today’s fast paced society, marketing of every product is crucial. Maine’s Community College System appears to have lost its focus on technical education. I have submitted legislation to help market technical education to supply trained technicians. That is why I Sponsored LD 174, An Act to Return the Name of the Maine Community College …

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Heating relief is good, but we need long-term solutions

This is Representative Dick Campbell of Orrington with the Weekly Republican Radio Address. This week, the Legislature passed its’ first major piece of legislation, LD 3 – “An Act to Establish the Winter Energy Relief Payment Program to Aid Residents with High Heating Costs and to Finalize the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program.” Because of Republican …

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