Opinion: Millinocket town manager at odds with his own community Fact: Millinocket Town Manager Eugene Conlogue opposes a national park in the Katahdin region. Fact: national parks are economic engines. Fact: the unemployment rate in July in Penobscot County was 8.8%, which is even higher than a year ago. Fact: the unemployment rate in Piscataquis County for July was 9.7%. Fact: the unemployment rate in July in Maine statewide was 7.6%. Fact: the Katahdin region has chronically had a higher unemployment rate than the most of the rest of the state. In 2011, the unemployment rate for the Millinocket Labor Market Area was 17.8%. Opinion: a municipal official working outside his public position through a private advocacy organization against the economic interests of his own community may be a violation of Maine's conflict of interest law.
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2012 (Archive on Friday, September 07, 2012) Posted by Jym St. Pierre   Contributed by Jym St. Pierre
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