I find this hearing fascinating because this is an issue I've been wrestling with for 30 years. I've been an environmental advocate, a developer, a governor, and an administrator.
you can't on the one hand talk about a more efficient permitting process and on the other hand talk about firing people and shrinking the si...
it's often easy, politically, to talk about shrinking the government, and hiring freezes, and fewer people.
Perhaps the handgun example can remind me of my father's advice that even the worst person can serve as a bad example.
we want to be partners. To the extent you can tell us what could be changed in terms of regulation, in terms of congressional requirements, ...
reducing lead times is almost as important as price.
Structure is policy.
To call this a circus would be an insult to circuses.
It's just a hell of a way to run a railroad.
But to me for him to say it's going to hurt me, that doesn't square with what we saw from his '05 return.
The Bangor City council wouldn't amend the leash law with a process like this. I mean it's embarrassing.