Rooks: Spending alone can’t rebuild Maine's capabilities Douglas Rooks The long-awaited, $1 billion American Rescue Plan package submitted by Gov. Janet Mills to the Legislature has something for just about everyone. Mills would pump $50 million into fishing, farming and forest products. She’d replenish the depleted unemployment insurance fund by $80 million. Another $80 million would “jumpstart innovation,” though we could use some details. There’s a lot more money for broadband, everyone’s favorite cause – $150 million – plus $50 million for the successful Efficiency Maine programs for homeowners, schools, municipalities and businesses. And so on. In the absence of competing proposals – so far, none – it’s likely Mills’s plan will be adopted largely intact.