The Kennebec Journal posts an article on a gubernatorial forum hosted by the Agricultural Council of Maine to discuss rising health care costs and other issues facing Maine’s farmers. Eliot Cutler said that as governor, he would help Maine farmers by working to lower the costs of health care, energy and state government as well as consolidating economic development and doing a better job of promoting Maine products.
Eliot Cutler said the high cost of electricity, energy and health care create a “wall of costs.”… [he also] said he would create a Department of Commerce to consolidate economic development agencies in the state, and that the state must do a better job of selling Maine products.
You can read the full article here.