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The Political Geography Of Maine’S Economic Future: Cities And Their Metro Regions, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
The Political Geography Of Maine’S Economic Future: Cities And Their Metro Regions, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Maine Policy Review
Following a global trend that now has more than 55 percent of the world population living in cities and their metro regions, Maine’s economic and population growth are driven by our cities and the surrounding metro areas. The trend, however, will not meet Maine’s goal to attract a future workforce and reduce greenhouse gas emissions without regional solutions to housing, education, homelessness, climate adaptation, and public transportation. Meeting these challenges will require a loosening of attitudes about local control and an embracing of regional solutions to the critical issues inhibiting Maine’s economic growth. The political leadership of the state, cities, …
The Dilemma Of Nursing Home Closures: A Case Study Of Rural Maine Nursing Homes, Mary Helen Mcsweeney-Feld, Nadine Braunstein
The Dilemma Of Nursing Home Closures: A Case Study Of Rural Maine Nursing Homes, Mary Helen Mcsweeney-Feld, Nadine Braunstein
Maine Policy Review
Nursing home closures in the United States have accelerated in the past five years. Reasons for these closures include inadequate Medicaid reimbursement, increased emphasis on short-term rehabilitative stays for Medicare residents, geographic location of nursing homes, presence of hospital swing bed programs, and changes in Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services regulatory requirements for nursing homes. Increased minimum wage rates and limited on-the-job worker training have also led to staffing shortages, forcing bed reductions in nursing homes. This paper examines the premise that low Medicaid reimbursement is the primary reason for the closures of Maine nursing homes. The article evaluates …
Declining Economic Opportunity And A Shrinking Safety Net: Consequences For Maine, Ryan M. Larochelle
Declining Economic Opportunity And A Shrinking Safety Net: Consequences For Maine, Ryan M. Larochelle
Maine Policy Review
Ryan LaRochelle discusses the consequences of declining economic opportunity and a shrinking social safety net for Maine. LaRochelle recommends that policymakers in Augusta recognize how precarious many Mainers’ economic situations are and take action.
Worker Safety In Maine’S Boatyards: Improving Osha Compliance Efforts, Jeremy Pare
Worker Safety In Maine’S Boatyards: Improving Osha Compliance Efforts, Jeremy Pare
Maine Policy Review
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Maine’s boatyards are a high-hazard industry, given the many potential threats their employees face daily. Maine’s boatyards struggle with OSHA regulations because OSHA’s command-and-control rules leave little room for flexibility, and as evidenced by the boatyards’ high workers’ compensation costs and injury rates, implementation does not effectively protect boatyard workers. This article investigates whether changes to OSHA’s 50-year-old punitive regulatory strategy can influence the way boatyards self-regulate and decrease hazards and minimize the risk of injury to workers. Through focus groups and interviews, the article provides evidence that changes within OSHA’s …
Ed Muskie, Political Parties, And The Art Of Governance, Don Nicoll
Ed Muskie, Political Parties, And The Art Of Governance, Don Nicoll
Maine Policy Review
In its 200-year history as a state, Maine has gone through three major political realignments and is now in the midst of a fourth. The Jefferson Democratic Republicans supplanted the Federalists to achieve statehood. The Republican Party dominated state politics from the eve of the Civil War until 1954. The Maine Democratic Party, under the leadership of Edmund S. Muskie and Frank Coffin, transformed it into a competitive two-party state. Now the goals of open, responsive, and responsible governance that Muskie and Coffin sought through healthy competition and civil discourse are threatened by bitter, dysfunctional national trends in the political …
From Wilderness To Timberland To Vacationland To Ecosystem: Maine’S Forests, 1820–2020, Lloyd C. Irland
From Wilderness To Timberland To Vacationland To Ecosystem: Maine’S Forests, 1820–2020, Lloyd C. Irland
Maine Policy Review
The 200 years since Maine statehood span a series of changing metaphors used by people to understand the forest and its values: the forest as wilderness, as timberland, as vacationland, and as ecosystem. These metaphors have succeeded each other over time, but broadly speaking, they all persist to one degree or another. These ways of viewing and using the forest can conflict or can come to uneasy truces, but new developments can revive the tensions. Public policy is always well behind the shifting needs as timberland comes to be seen as vacationland and vacationland as ecosystem. Further, conflicts between different …
Maine’S Public Reserved Lands: A Tale Of Loss And Recovery, Richard Barringer, Lee Schepps, Thomas Urquhart, Martin Wilk
Maine’S Public Reserved Lands: A Tale Of Loss And Recovery, Richard Barringer, Lee Schepps, Thomas Urquhart, Martin Wilk
Maine Policy Review
The story of Maine’s public reserved lands—or public lots—is worth the telling for its own sake and for its enduring lessons. Provided for in the Maine Constitution of 1820 and neglected for more than a century, the public lots were once scattered widely across the Unorganized Territory of northern, western, and eastern Maine. Today, they are restored to public use and benefit, reassembled into large blocks of land that, in aggregate, are more than twice the size of Baxter State Park. These consolidated public lots offer a wide spectrum of extraordinary values, include many of the crown jewels of Maine’s …
Making Maine More Attractive To Young People, Everett Beals
Making Maine More Attractive To Young People, Everett Beals
Maine Policy Review
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2020 asked students to propose how they would make Maine “the way life should be” for young people so that more of them will choose to live in a state with one of the oldest populations in the nation. Essays have been edited for length. This is the first-place essay.
Maine Conservation In An Age Of Global Climate Change, Richard Judd
Maine Conservation In An Age Of Global Climate Change, Richard Judd
Maine Policy Review
Maine has been a key player in one of the most dramatic changes in conservation strategy since Gifford Pinchot coined the term in the 1890s as private nonprofit land trusts have become essential to the conservation movement in the state. Land trusts spearheaded the new approach to conservation by drawing together landowners, philanthropic organizations, state and federal agencies, older conservation organizations, and most importantly, ordinary citizens. Given its prominence in the land-trust movement, Maine has provided leadership in a second revolutionary trend as trust managers embraced the emerging science of ecosystem management.
Institutional Challenges To Workforce Development In Maine, Thomas Remington
Institutional Challenges To Workforce Development In Maine, Thomas Remington
Maine Policy Review
The problem of workforce development in Maine has become acute. An important factor for understanding the issue of workforce development, in Maine and nationally, is rising economic inequality. High inequality impedes the working of labor markets, and over time, reduces opportunity and mobility. In Maine, as elsewhere, income gaps have widened between rich and poor while the middle class has been shrinking. Moreover, the gap between high-income and low-income counties has been growing. Meantime, many good-paying jobs are going unfilled. Comprehensive institutional solutions can help overcome these problems by matching supply and demand in the labor market, but they are …
What Is “Too Cold?” Recess And Physical Education Weather Policies In Maine Elementary Schools, Lauren E. Jacobs, Anush Y. Hansen, Christopher J. Nightingale, Robert Lehnard
What Is “Too Cold?” Recess And Physical Education Weather Policies In Maine Elementary Schools, Lauren E. Jacobs, Anush Y. Hansen, Christopher J. Nightingale, Robert Lehnard
Maine Policy Review
This research investigated weather policies concerning outdoor recess and physical education in Maine elementary schools. Data were gathered through a statewide survey of Maine elementary school principals, interviews, and an analysis of existing policies and 10 years of historic weather data. Survey data revealed a significant correlation between geographic location and minimum cutoff temperature for outdoor recess. No relationship was found between minimum cutoff temperatures and poverty levels. There were substantial differences between the reported number of missed outdoor recess days and the estimated weather data numbers. The findings of this research are important for three reasons. First, it uncovered …
Circular Food Systems In Maine: Findings From An Interdisciplinary Study Of Food Waste Management, Skyler Horton, Hannah Nadeau, Andrew Flynn, Taylor Patterson, Shayla Rose Kleisinger, Brieanne Berry
Circular Food Systems In Maine: Findings From An Interdisciplinary Study Of Food Waste Management, Skyler Horton, Hannah Nadeau, Andrew Flynn, Taylor Patterson, Shayla Rose Kleisinger, Brieanne Berry
Maine Policy Review
This paper explores challenges and opportunities for reducing food waste in Maine through five distinct, yet interrelated, case studies. Our research focuses on how Maine might create and support a more circular food system that can reduce waste and promote the use of surplus food in agricultural and industrial processes. This stakeholder-engaged research identifies potential policy interventions across scales, but also highlights the need for more interdisciplinary research opportunities for students. Our research adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and our team members represent diverse academic backgrounds, including nursing, the human dimensions of climate change, environmental engineering, ecology and environmental sciences, biomedical …
Maine’S Workforce Challenges In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Maine’S Workforce Challenges In An Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Maine Policy Review
Artificial intelligence will improve productivity, expand the economy, and significantly alter many jobs. To accommodate these changes, Maine will have to upgrade workforce skills in a rapidly changing economy. This article recommends policy proposals in response to the rise of artificial intelligence, including (1) training programs for current and displaced workers; (2) revamped postsecondary education programs to provide a wider group of students with the skills necessary in a postindustrial society; and (3) a much closer relationship between government, employers, and educational institutions to develop the future workforce for Maine. The paper also looks at the deliberations about workforce development …
Twenty-First-Century Language Education At The University Of Maine: A Road Map, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden
Twenty-First-Century Language Education At The University Of Maine: A Road Map, Gisela Hoecherl-Alden
Maine Policy Review
The University of Maine Flagship Match program is designed to recruit students from neighboring states and offset enrollment declines. However, language faculty retrenchment at the university a decade ago, combined with the effective double-degree programs with languages, STEM, and other subjects that other regional flagships offer and recent changes in New England’s K–12 graduation options, makes it harder for UMaine to attract high-performing students. If the university wants to compete with others in New England and attract students who focus on global professional issues, it has an opportunity it cannot afford to miss. Adapting one of the language education models …
Reshaping Maine Woods Destinations For Twenty-First-Century Tourists, David J. Vail, Donna Moreland, Mike Wilson
Reshaping Maine Woods Destinations For Twenty-First-Century Tourists, David J. Vail, Donna Moreland, Mike Wilson
Maine Policy Review
Maine’s rim counties—here called the Maine Woods region—suffer from chronic economic and community distress, marked by declines in several resource-based industries, an ongoing youth exodus, and a rapidly aging population. Nonetheless, many encouraging new ventures are helping to revitalize the Maine Woods economy and communities, and tourism and recreation should play a central role in these efforts. This article focuses on initiatives launched through a partnership between the 16-member Maine Woods Consortium and the Maine Office of Tourism designed to reinvigorate Maine Woods’ recreation and hospitality offerings and to enrich amenities in the region’s gateway communities.
Preparing For A Changing Climate: The State Of Adaptation Planning In Maine’S Coastal Communities, Eileen Sylvan Johnson, Esperanza Stancioff, Tora Johnson, Sarena Sabine, Haley Maurice, Claire Reboussin
Preparing For A Changing Climate: The State Of Adaptation Planning In Maine’S Coastal Communities, Eileen Sylvan Johnson, Esperanza Stancioff, Tora Johnson, Sarena Sabine, Haley Maurice, Claire Reboussin
Maine Policy Review
Climate change is having a range of impacts on Maine’s coastal communities, impacts that will be further exacerbated by increased coastal flooding, storm events, and a warming Gulf of Maine. To better understand the status of adaptation planning by Maine coastal communities, we conducted a survey and in-depth interviews with decision makers from coastal communities. We found that communities are addressing the effects of climate change and have moved towards specific implementation strategies. Adaptation planning to date includes incorporation of climate change impacts in comprehensive planning and addressing impacts on roads, culverts, and waterfront infrastructure. Respondents indicated the need for …
Building The Next Generation Of Maine Leaders: Learning From The Leadership Of Mary Cathcart, Linda Silka
Building The Next Generation Of Maine Leaders: Learning From The Leadership Of Mary Cathcart, Linda Silka
Maine Policy Review
Linda Silka reflects on Mary Cathcart’s work helping build the next generation of Maine leaders through Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership, a bipartisan training for college women to help them reach their full civic potential.
Leadership, Inside And Out, Deirdre Mccarthy Gallagher, Joseph Shaffner
Leadership, Inside And Out, Deirdre Mccarthy Gallagher, Joseph Shaffner
Maine Policy Review
This article explores leadership, inside and out: a new approach to equip aspiring leaders with the tools to lead creatively, inclusively, and effectively. Leadership, inside and out, transforms emerging leaders into the leaders of the future, positioning them to indelibly impact their own organizations and the state of Maine.
The Adaptive Challenges Of Leadership In Maine Schools, Richard Ackerman, Ian Mette, Catharine Biddle
The Adaptive Challenges Of Leadership In Maine Schools, Richard Ackerman, Ian Mette, Catharine Biddle
Maine Policy Review
The current landscape of educational leadership in Maine schools offers a range of challenges and uncertainties that are seldom acknowledged or appreciated. These challenges can expose significant gaps between clinical, research-based knowledge and leadership practices in schools in Maine and across the United States. These endemic issues comprise what Heifetz (1994) calls “adaptive challenges.” Solutions to the leadership challenges raised by these issues don’t come quickly or easily and are in fact inherently confusing because they don't have easy technical answers. In the context of schools, they include responses to the endemic challenges of poverty as it affects families and …
Investing In Teachers’ Leadership Capacity: A Model From Stem Education, Susan R. Mckay, Laura Millay, Erika Allison, Elizabeth Byerssmall, Michael C. Wittmann, Mickie Flores, Jim Fratini, Bob Kumpa, Cynthia Lambert, Eric A. Pandiscio, Michelle K. Smith
Investing In Teachers’ Leadership Capacity: A Model From Stem Education, Susan R. Mckay, Laura Millay, Erika Allison, Elizabeth Byerssmall, Michael C. Wittmann, Mickie Flores, Jim Fratini, Bob Kumpa, Cynthia Lambert, Eric A. Pandiscio, Michelle K. Smith
Maine Policy Review
Teachers play a key role in the quality of education provided to students. The Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) at the University of Maine has worked with partners to design, implement, and evaluate several programs in the past eight years to provide professional learning opportunities and support for Maine’s STEM teachers, leading to significant impacts for teachers and students across the state. A strategic investment in developing teacher leadership capacity played a key role in expanding the initial partnership to include teachers and school districts across the state. With support from education researchers and staff at …
Hidden In Plain Sight: Making Maine’S Science Leadership Visible, Kate Dickerson
Hidden In Plain Sight: Making Maine’S Science Leadership Visible, Kate Dickerson
Maine Policy Review
Kate Dickerson reports an innovative strategy to highlight Maine’s science leadership and to inspire both current and future generations of Maine’s science leaders by providing a space where they can talk about their work with the public: the Maine Science Festival, where attendees of all ages explore and celebrate the science happening in Maine.
A Positive Change Trinity: Lean, Servant Leadership, And Maine, William Maxwell, Joyce Gibson
A Positive Change Trinity: Lean, Servant Leadership, And Maine, William Maxwell, Joyce Gibson
Maine Policy Review
This article is a call to action for Maine’s entrepreneurial servant leaders. We believe you can be a prime catalyst for positive change in Lean/Continuous Improvement initiatives across Maine. We are proposing that Maine’s servant leaders leverage the tool of Lean/Continuous Improvement to ignite a positive shift in organizational cultures. Our positive change trinity encompasses (1) Lean/Continuous Improvement as the process map of how to achieve new, sustainable growth; (2) servant leadership as the synergist that humanizes this growth in the territory of Maine workers’ lived experience; and (3) Maine’s forward-thinking businesses as the real-world hosts for this growth.
Cafeteria Waste Reduction Programs In Three Southern Maine Elementary Schools: A Waste Audit Analysis, Jeremy Ravenelle
Cafeteria Waste Reduction Programs In Three Southern Maine Elementary Schools: A Waste Audit Analysis, Jeremy Ravenelle
Maine Policy Review
Solid waste is a serious environmental problem in the modern world. School cafeterias are one source of food and packaging waste that must be dealt with. Reducing the amount of cafeteria waste disposed of as trash through source reduction, recycling, and composting will not only improve environmental outcomes, but will also teach students about sustainability and save schools money. Waste audits at three elementary schools in southern Maine reveal that there are major differences in how effectively waste is sorted and the types and quantity of waste generated per student. Overall waste diversion was measured at 67 percent or greater …
Introduction, Linda Silka
Incubating Leaders In Maine, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Incubating Leaders In Maine, Joseph W. Mcdonnell
Maine Policy Review
For a sparsely populated state, Maine has produced an extraordinary number of national, bipartisan leaders. What has made Maine an incubator for such leadership? Alexis de Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America, provides useful insights into Maine’s culture as a breeding ground for its leadership. But rapid societal changes sweeping the country and the world—particularly globalization, urbanization, and the digitization of the economy—will inevitably alter Maine’s culture. This paper explores steps Maine might take to develop leaders in this new environment by preserving its past strengths and adjusting to these new challenges. Maine could overcome its north/south divide and …
A Life Committed To Leadership: Life Lessons From Margaret Chase Smith And Outcomes That Would Please Her, Linda Cross Godfrey
A Life Committed To Leadership: Life Lessons From Margaret Chase Smith And Outcomes That Would Please Her, Linda Cross Godfrey
Maine Policy Review
Seeing Margaret Chase Smith during the GOP Convention in 1964 triggered an epiphany for the teenage Linda Cross Godfrey on women as leaders. In this essay, the author describes what she learned from Margaret Chase Smith during the friendship that developed between them.
Why Leadership Matters, Susan J. Hunter
Why Leadership Matters, Susan J. Hunter
Maine Policy Review
This essay is from a talk University of Maine President Dr. Susan J. Hunter gave on May 30, 2018, at Bangor Public Library as part of Dirigo Speaks. President Hunter feels her time at UMaine has allowed her many opportunities to reflect on leadership and why it matters, and recognizes that many people have shaped her perspectives on leadership.
Enact-Ing Leadership At The State Level: A National Educational Network For Engaged Citizenship In State Legislatures, Robert W. Glover, Kathleen Cole, Katharine Owens
Enact-Ing Leadership At The State Level: A National Educational Network For Engaged Citizenship In State Legislatures, Robert W. Glover, Kathleen Cole, Katharine Owens
Maine Policy Review
The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) is a nationwide network that serves as a hub for the pedagogical efforts of educators in 16 different states, with the ambitious goal of having an ENACT Faculty Fellow in all 50 states. However, ENACT courses go a step further engaging students directly in experiential learning exercises designed to affect policy change by working with policy advocacy groups, preparing policy briefs, engaging in strategic outreach and messaging, and meeting directly with policymakers in their state capitals to advocate for political change. In this paper, we argue that state politics represents a fruitful, …
Teamwork Is The New Leadership, David Hart
Teamwork Is The New Leadership, David Hart
Maine Policy Review
David Hart highlights some of the lessons he has learned about teams and leadership and ways to apply these lessons to help develop a new generation of more-capable leaders.
Leadership As Partnership, Karen H. Bieluch
Leadership As Partnership, Karen H. Bieluch
Maine Policy Review
Karen Hutchins Bieluch describes what she has learned about leadership from her experiences participating in a number of university-community/nonprofit partnerships and her studies of these partnerships.