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Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Maine Libraries

It is with great pleasure that the editors of Maine Policy Review announce a call for submissions for a special issue devoted to identifying and exploring the complex challenges surrounding Maine libraries. We hope to explore internal and external threats and opportunities to library services along with policy actions and innovations affecting libraries. Because of […]

Maine Policy Review 32(2) Special Issue: “Our Shared Ocean” Available Now

Maine Policy Review, a leading peer-reviewed journal focusing on policy analysis and research in Maine, is excited to announce the release of Our Shared Ocean, a Maine Policy Review special issue. This issue brings together a remarkable set of authors to provide many different perspectives on policy issues related to the ocean.  Our Shared Ocean […]

Maine Policy Review Volume 32, Number 1, Available Now

Maine Policy Review is excited to announce the availability of Vol. 32, No. 1, on MPR’s Digital Commons site. Print copies have been mailed to subscribers. Vol. 32, No. 1, starts off with the Margaret Chase Smith essay by Richard Judd, which offers a history of Maine’s conservation and the successes and challenges the state faced […]


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Recent Margaret Chase Smith Essays

What’s in a Name? Being a League of Women Voters in 2022

by Anna Kellar What does it mean to be an organization called the League of Women Voters in 2022, when the ideas of community action, feminist politics, and voting are each hotly contested? We are a league because we believe in collective action, in community, and in the power of people coming together to solve […]

Cradle of Conservation

by Richard Judd Conservation history brings to mind epic battles over national parks, free-flowing rivers, and immense wilderness areas in the West. We should not overlook similar accomplishments in the East, however, where citizens and public officials pioneered the conservation movement well before John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Theodore Roosevelt coined the term. Maine stands […]

(Un)precedented: Reflecting on the Early Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Amanda Rector I remember very clearly the last days I spent in my Augusta office before the COVID-19 pandemic had me working from home. The last in-person meeting I spoke at was awkward as we tried to figure out the social dynamics: do we shake hands? Elbow bump? Wave from a safe distance? I […]


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Structural Inequalities in the Opportunity Maine Tax Credit

(90-second read) Policy in Brief: Complexities in the Opportunity Maine Tax Credit arise depending on when you attend school, when you attend school, and the type of degree you earned. These complexities lead to inequities between individuals who receive benefits from the program: between women and men and between people working in fields in or […]
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Maine and the Arctic: Why Maine Should Develop an Arctic Strategy

(Two-minute read) Policy in Brief: Despite recently being in the spotlight as an Arctic player, Maine does not currently have a formal published Arctic strategy.  Due to disinterest at the federal level and other near-Arctic subnational entities creating their own Arctic strategies, it is a good time for Maine to articulate its own Arctic strategy. […]