If the region is going to operate a University campus, it needs to be competitive with other universities around the country, not with jobs in Presque Isle.

Quality administrators and highly educated professors that are up to-date with current research are expensive, especially if you want them to live in the out-of-the-way places. They earn higher salaries than many of the other jobs available in remote parts of Maine. Yet their salaries still fall below what they would earn at other universities or colleges around the country.

Again, Universities are expensive. They involve recruiting teaching and leadership talent from other places instead of drawing on the local pool. It’s that diversity that creates the educational experience, otherwise it would just be Presque Isle teaching it’s own.

Also, professionals that work at universities expect training from people like Brene Brown. That’s also part of the operating expense.

It sounds like your beef might be with higher education itself, which is a whole other issue.

No, we’re not talking about slavery. In fact, that’s a super dramatic comparison to try to make.

We’re talking about a negotiation in which people are unhappy with what’s being offered to them. That’s a long way from slavery my friend it’s called capitalism.

Right but it’s also not a reason to let the American economy collapse. There are plenty of workers who have not gotten colas. In fact, annual increases, don’t even exist in the world of nonprofits.

That’s true in many fields.

Also a 24 Percent raise

Write a check. Buy some promotional materials. Fill out a quick survey. Go to a dinner in Portland to collect your ‘prize’. Nobody loses

Aka homemade mounds bars

It’s a tough call because we need to have the situation resolved

Dear God

I tend to run

Now here is something nobody asked for or wanted.

News flash - you never needed the other 4. The first one is still working just fine.

The one in Bangor has been fantastic and has helped us out a few times in a jam - with zero wait at all.

The snow is not the issue, it’s the cold. Think ‘dark below zero and whipping wind in February’. You need a winter coat because there will be nights where you feel like you’re going to freeze to death trying to get to your car after work.

Most land is posted. It’s much much smaller in New England.

They are just about giving them away these days :)

Wearing a mask currently means that you have Covid and feel like it’s ok to shop as long as you are masked. It’s code for: “stay far away from me”.

Maskless coughing is code for: I’m in denial and don’t want to test or wear a mask.

Start by sending them a registered letter through thenUS mail explaining the issue and indicating dates that you have attempted to contact them, ask them to fix them problem with in 2 weeks. Follow up with a second letter if they have not and meet with your local code enforcement officer - bring a copy of the letter that you sent the landlord.

Or Lol ‘energy recovery’.

The recycling industry has collapsed. There is not any real recycling going on unless you consider burning trash for energy a form of recycling.

At first glance he looks like a guy with a relationship to beer.

Bowling!

Why are you so defensive of mooching? What’s the big deal about letting your neighbor know you plan to be in his yard?

Five years is cool. One of these days you’re gonna go to use it and it will have cracked.

There’s a difference between what’s reasonable, and what’s legal sometimes. The bottom line is that hunting only exists in Maine because of the generosity of the landowners.

Anybody can walk into Walmart and buy a shotgun, but without land to use it on it’s pointless. Unless you own land yourself remember to send a thank you card to the guy who’s letting you use his property.