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Mlgpa News (December 1999), Betsy Smith Dec 1999

Mlgpa News (December 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (September 1999), Betsy Smith Sep 1999

Mlgpa News (September 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (August 1999), Betsy Smith Aug 1999

Mlgpa News (August 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (July 1999), Betsy Smith Jul 1999

Mlgpa News (July 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (June 1999), Betsy Smith Jun 1999

Mlgpa News (June 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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The Lobbyist No. 25 (May 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff May 1999

The Lobbyist No. 25 (May 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Mlgpa News (May 1999), Betsy Smith May 1999

Mlgpa News (May 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (April 1999), Betsy Smith Apr 1999

Mlgpa News (April 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

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Mlgpa News (March 1999), Betsy Smith Mar 1999

Mlgpa News (March 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.


The Lobbyist No. 24 (February 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Feb 1999

The Lobbyist No. 24 (February 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Mlgpa News (February 1999), Betsy Smith Feb 1999

Mlgpa News (February 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.


The Lobbyist No. 27 (Fall 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 1999

The Lobbyist No. 27 (Fall 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Mlgpa News (January 1999), Betsy Smith Jan 1999

Mlgpa News (January 1999), Betsy Smith

MLGPA news (1996-2004)

No abstract provided.


Electric Utility Restructuring: What Does It Mean For Residential And Small Retail Consumers In Maine?, Lewis Tagliaferre, Susan Greenwood Jan 1999

Electric Utility Restructuring: What Does It Mean For Residential And Small Retail Consumers In Maine?, Lewis Tagliaferre, Susan Greenwood

Maine Policy Review

On March 1, 2000, Maine will offer electric power through open competition, a restructuring that poses both advantages and disadvantages to residential and small retail consumers. While electric restructuring in Maine has been thoughtfully developed, the basic question of whether electricity rates will be lower for the average consumer will remain uncertain for some time. This uncertainty is linked not only to Maine’s electricity rate bidding process but also to potentially oligopolistic national trends. In addition, whether individual consumers achieve savings in their electricity costs will be determined, in part, by their choice of electricity supplier. While some consumers may …


Ten Years Of Affordable Housing Policy: Is Maine Making Progress-- A Symposium, Elizabeth H. Mitchell, Dennis P. King, James B. Hatch, Jay Hardy Jan 1999

Ten Years Of Affordable Housing Policy: Is Maine Making Progress-- A Symposium, Elizabeth H. Mitchell, Dennis P. King, James B. Hatch, Jay Hardy

Maine Policy Review

In December 1987 Governor McKernan appointed a 30-member, statewide task force to address the issue of affordable housing in Maine. The task force was charged with investigating the quality and cost of affordable housing for lower- and middle-income families, and recommending a set of actions to improve the quality of existing housing as well as to increase the supply of housing. In September 1998 the Task Force issued a report that prescribed a number of local and regional—as well as private and public—solutions to the problem of affordable housing. More than ten years later Maine housing advocates note that the …


A Challenge For The Next Decade: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing, Laura Burns Jan 1999

A Challenge For The Next Decade: Preserving Affordable Rental Housing, Laura Burns

Maine Policy Review

Many of Maine’s low-income families and elderly residents have been able to secure affordable housing with help from a Section 8 certificate, which allows residents to pay no more than 30 percent of their income toward rent and ensures the federal government will make up the difference. Over the years, much of the development of Section 8 housing projects has been assisted by financial incentives and agreements between private and non-profit owners and the federal government. Yet recent changes in federal legislation remove many of these incentives and the agreements that go with them. As a result, some of Maine’s …


Adolescent Homelessness: A Roundtable Discussion Jan 1999

Adolescent Homelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Maine Policy Review

Where do homeless adolescents come from? Are there more homeless youth today than ten years ago? How do we help these youth? What do they need? In December 1998, these questions formed the core of a Maine Policy Review roundtable discussion featuring: State Representative Michael Quint; Dana Totman, deputy director of the Maine State Housing Authority; Christine O’Leary, coordinator of Portland’s Preble Street Resource Teen Center; Bob Rowe, executive director of New Beginnings in Lewiston; and Brad Coffey, chair of the board of Bangor’s Shaw House from 1994-1998. In their wide-ranging discussion, the participants focused on the varied circumstances that …


Homeless In Maine: Who Is? Who Might Be Tomorrow? What Do We Do About It?, Suzanne Guild Jan 1999

Homeless In Maine: Who Is? Who Might Be Tomorrow? What Do We Do About It?, Suzanne Guild

Maine Policy Review

The December 1998 denial by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fund Maine’s applications for homeless assistance catapulted the needs of this vulnerable population to top priority status. As Suzanne Guild notes, Maine’s homeless population is comprised of two groups: those who are homeless for the first time and who, after a brief stay at a shelter, will regain stable housing, and those who cycle in and out of the state’s shelters on a more or less regular basis. Both groups tend to be young and undereducated; more than half are male; and many report problems with …


Maine’S Homeless Families: An Interview With Helen Hemminger, Helen Hemminger Jan 1999

Maine’S Homeless Families: An Interview With Helen Hemminger, Helen Hemminger

Maine Policy Review

Since 1991 Helen Hemminger has been director of The Tedford Shelter, a homeless shelter serving adults and families in the Brunswick, Maine area. In this interview, Hemminger provides a first- hand account of Maine’s changing homeless population. The good news, she reports, is that the percentage of people with mental illnesses staying at the shelter has gone down. The bad news is that since 1994 the shelter has experienced a steady increase in the number of homeless families. As Hemminger notes, there are more Maine families today working very hard to make ends meet. Living on a precarious edge, one …