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Council-Manager Charter Of The Town Of Winthrop, Winthrop (Me.). Municipal Officers
Council-Manager Charter Of The Town Of Winthrop, Winthrop (Me.). Municipal Officers
Maine Town Documents
No abstract provided.
Mr443: Maine Coastal Islands Visitor Survey 2006--Deer Isle/Stonington Region, Andres J. Ednie, John J. Daigle
Mr443: Maine Coastal Islands Visitor Survey 2006--Deer Isle/Stonington Region, Andres J. Ednie, John J. Daigle
Miscellaneous Reports
This research was designed to help the Maine Island Trail Association and others interested in the management of the Maine’s coastal islands. This report presents results from an island-monitoring program in which we inventoried social conditions on a subset of the public islands on the Maine Island Trail. This research was designed to build on the ecological inventory developed by the task force and to help MITA and other groups to manage the islands by determining characteristics of the Maine island visit, including activities, use patterns, method of travel, length of stay; determining characteristics of the visitors, including types of …
Maine Drug-Induced Deaths: A Brief White Paper Prepared For The Spf-Sig State Epidemiology Workgroup, August, 2007, Marcella H. Sorg
Maine Drug-Induced Deaths: A Brief White Paper Prepared For The Spf-Sig State Epidemiology Workgroup, August, 2007, Marcella H. Sorg
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
Drug death statistics for Cumberland County declined following an effort at public health information targeted at users/misusers. Specific education messages aimed at young adults, particularly males and 20-34 year olds will potentially reach the most at risk group. Messages regarding the dangers of diversion, recognition of snoring as a warning sign of respiratory distress, the benefits of placing users in the “recovery position to maximize airway access are being used in Cumberland and Kennebec Counties.
Education efforts targeted at health care providers who write narcotic prescriptions and the patients who receive them should be supported, particularly encouraging messages about the …
Impact Of New Science And Engineering Graduates On Intrastate Labor Markets, Philip A. Trostel
Impact Of New Science And Engineering Graduates On Intrastate Labor Markets, Philip A. Trostel
University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports
A major policy issue confronting states is the level of state support to higher education. A crucial question in this policy debate is whether a state's production of college graduates has a proportionate effect on the level of college attainment in the state. Although it is widely accepted that rising college attainment leads to rising prosperity, there is widespread concern that many new college graduates will take their state-supported degrees to labor markets in other states. The belief that state support to higher education subsidizes the workforce development of other states undermines states' incentives to promote wider access to higher …
South End Neighborhood Strategic Plan, Waterville (Me.). City Officials
South End Neighborhood Strategic Plan, Waterville (Me.). City Officials
Maine Town Documents - Waterville
The South End Neighborhood Strategic Plan is a guide and expression of the neighborhood's vision. The plan is a guide for managing change within the neighborhood for the next 20 years. The plan establishes a blueprint for change with in the neighborhood. It accomplishes this by setting goals and objectives to be met in future years. Some of the objectives are broad and others are very specific. A responsible party is assigned to each objective along with a projected cost and a target date for completion.
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
The Green Deal: A Call For Changed Lifestyle, Samuel S. Inman
The Green Deal: A Call For Changed Lifestyle, Samuel S. Inman
Maine Policy Review
Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. This year students were asked for a comprehensive national energy policy, addressing the topic from multiple perspectives and surveying the economic, environmental, political social and historical considerations that must go into any viable long-term solutions. Featured here is Samuel S. Inman’s thoughtful and well-articulated 2007 first place prize-winning essay.
Building On Mainecare’S Success, Lisa Pohlmann, Christine Hastedt
Building On Mainecare’S Success, Lisa Pohlmann, Christine Hastedt
Maine Policy Review
This commentary provides a particular viewpoint on MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program). Lisa Pohlmann and Christine Hastedt critique reform efforts in several states and emphasize the key role of MaineCare in the state’s overall health care system.
Mainecare—A Provider Prospective, Erik N. Steele
Mainecare—A Provider Prospective, Erik N. Steele
Maine Policy Review
Dr. Erik Steele in this commentary discusses MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program) from a provider’s perspective. He suggests that delays and problems in the state’s reimbursement to providers have led to doubts about the state’s credibility both as a payer and as a health care systems change leader.
Nature-Based Tourism In Maine: The State’S Role In Promoting A Strong Tourism Industry, Elizabeth Munding, John Daigle
Nature-Based Tourism In Maine: The State’S Role In Promoting A Strong Tourism Industry, Elizabeth Munding, John Daigle
Maine Policy Review
Tourism is Maine’s largest industry and, perhaps also, one of the least well understood and appreciated by the state’s citizens. Conventional wisdom suggests that tourism yields unwanted crowds and low-paying jobs. Yet closer analysis suggests that tourism does and has a yet-to-be-realized potential to enhance the well-being and sustainability of communities, particularly through high-quality, nature-based experiences that leverage Maine’s extraordinary landscapes, wilderness, and rural culture. Elizabeth Munding and John Daigle summarize what was learned as a result of Munding’s interviews with close to 50 tourism stakeholders throughout Maine. Although this study covered four major aspects of Maine’s tourism industry, here …
Poverty In Maine, Ann Acheson
Poverty In Maine, Ann Acheson
Maine Policy Review
Despite decades of concerted federal, state, local and private effort, poverty persists in Maine and many parts of the nation. The face of poverty, however, differs across regions and states. Maine, for example, has a higher rate of working poor than in the nation as a whole. In this article, Ann Acheson updates the profile of poverty in Maine, examining recent trends and the nature of regional disparities. Some measures of economic distress have worsened over the last five years; others remain stagnant. Acheson concludes with a brief overview of current policies and programs that address poverty and calls for …
Taking A New Look At Mainecare, Paul Saucier
Taking A New Look At Mainecare, Paul Saucier
Maine Policy Review
Maine’s Medicaid program, called MaineCare, provides health care coverage to one in five state residents. Paul Saucier gives an overview of MaineCare’s services, eligibility categories, and financing. He discusses root causes of MaineCare’s continued expansion in breadth and cost, which has prompted reform proposals to rein in what many believe is unsustainable growth. Examining reform efforts in other states, Saucier cautions that we need to learn from these experiments. Finally, he raises important questions for policymakers related to MaineCare’s mission, its complexity, and the stability of its financing.
You Don’T Always Get What You Want: Lessons To Be Learned From The Demise Of Maine’S Local Assessment System, Rebecca H. Berger
You Don’T Always Get What You Want: Lessons To Be Learned From The Demise Of Maine’S Local Assessment System, Rebecca H. Berger
Maine Policy Review
The recent repeal of Maine’s local education assessment requirement was met with mixed reactions ranging from relief to outrage. That there were such differing responses points to the fact that “assessment” in education is understood in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways. In this article, Rebecca Berger looks retrospectively at how the problems associated with implementing Maine’s local assessment system (LAS) were caused by a lack of understanding of important aspects of assessment as it relates to standards-based reform in education. Using examples from her case study of one Maine school district, Berger notes three areas of ongoing concern: lack of …
State Earned Income Tax Credits And “Making Work Pay”: How Maine Might Help Workers, Glenn Beamer
State Earned Income Tax Credits And “Making Work Pay”: How Maine Might Help Workers, Glenn Beamer
Maine Policy Review
Established in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became the federal government’s largest antipoverty program for citizens under the age of 65 by the mid-1990s. In this article, Glenn Beamer gives a brief overview of how the program works and how states have piggybacked on the federal EITC to further assist their working poor. He observes that Maine’s EITC policy does not fully avail itself of potential returns and points to other states with policies that provide greater benefits for the working poor. He suggests that expanding Maine’s EITC not only would provide working Mainers with extra income, but …
The Maine Woods: A Legacy Of Controversy, Richard W. Judd
The Maine Woods: A Legacy Of Controversy, Richard W. Judd
Maine Policy Review
In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay, Richard Judd reflects on the history of Maine’s North Woods. He discusses the divergent interests with a stake on the North Woods over the centuries, but notes that there has been a long-standing interest in conservation and in the heritage represented by this vast region.
Are The Economics Of A Sustainable Maine Forest Sustainable?, Mike Levert, Charles S. Colgan, Charles Lawton
Are The Economics Of A Sustainable Maine Forest Sustainable?, Mike Levert, Charles S. Colgan, Charles Lawton
Maine Policy Review
Mike LeVert, Charles Colgan and Charles Lawton discuss the transformation of the economic environment of Maine’s forests over the past two decades. Paper companies have sold most of their holdings; residential and conservation demand for land has increased; forestland prices have skyrocketed; and new classes of landowners have different strategies, objectives, and time horizons than the old industrial landowners. The authors believe that management of Maine’s forests must now address changes in the economic environment with the same intensity as threats such as the spruce budworm were addressed if we are to keep Maine’s forests as forests.
Alternative Large-Scale Conservation Visions For Northern Maine: Interviews With Decision Leaders In Maine, Elizabeth Dennis Baldwin, Laura S. Kenefic, Will F. Lapage
Alternative Large-Scale Conservation Visions For Northern Maine: Interviews With Decision Leaders In Maine, Elizabeth Dennis Baldwin, Laura S. Kenefic, Will F. Lapage
Maine Policy Review
Based on confidential interviews with 21 decision leaders in Maine, Elizabeth Baldwin, Laura Kenefic, and Will LaPage examine the complexity of the conflicts over alternate visions for large-scale conservation in Maine. Exploring models that may be useful for policymakers grappling with competing values for Maine’s forests, they present four alternatives: national forests, new U.S. forest service models, forest heritage areas, and the British national park model. The authors found that the leaders interviewed agreed about the need for some level of conservation, but did not completely agree on how this might happen and where the decision-making power should lie.
Lurc And First Principles Of Land Use Regulation, Mark Anderson
Lurc And First Principles Of Land Use Regulation, Mark Anderson
Maine Policy Review
In this commentary, Mark W. Anderson notes that recognizing the strengths and limits inherent in what Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission (LURC) does can bring more realism to how various “publics” seek to accomplish their goals for the North Woods.
Wanted: A Maine Woods Dialogue, Mark B. Lapping
Wanted: A Maine Woods Dialogue, Mark B. Lapping
Maine Policy Review
In his commentary on Jerry Bley’s article on the Maine Land Use Planning Commission (LURC), Mark Lapping discusses the need for serious dialogue about the future of the Maine North Woods. He believes that LURC’s mandate needs to be altered and enlarged
Lurc’S Challenge: Managing Growth In Maine’S Unorganized Territories, Jerry Bley
Lurc’S Challenge: Managing Growth In Maine’S Unorganized Territories, Jerry Bley
Maine Policy Review
Maine’s Land Use Regulation commission (LURC) oversees an area covering roughly half the state. Plum Creek’s Moosehead Lake Concept Plan has brought LURC into the spotlight. Jerry Bley presents the history of this unique agency, the lands under its jurisdiction, how it has managed development, and what may lie ahead. In developing its Comprehensive Land Use Plan update, LURC needs to seek common ground for solutions that preserve the unique qualities of the area in its jurisdiction, while providing landowners opportunities to realize the financial values of their lands.
Downtown Westbrook Revitalization Study Update, Devonomics
Downtown Westbrook Revitalization Study Update, Devonomics
Maine Town Documents
In January 1999, the City of Westbrook adopted a Downtown Revitalization Plan. Taking into account significant changes brought about both as a result of the plan and the region's shifting economy, eight years later a new plan was developed outlining the direction for continued revitalization activities.