jheim, Author at Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center

Author: jheim

Postcard depicting hydro electric power house next to Leanord Lake and Dam in Ellsworth, Maine circa 1930 to represent Maine Policy Matters podcast episode on Maine's forests.

S3E5 200 Years of Maine Forests: Navigating Vacationland

This episode of Maine Policy Matters explores an article by Lloyd C. Irland, “From Wilderness to Timberland to Vacationland to Ecosystem: Maine’s Forests, 1820–2020,” that examines the different ways people have viewed Maine forests over the last 200 years. [00:00:00] Eric Miller: For the first time in a hundred years or more, Maine’s total forest […]

Rate of Pauperism per 100,000 Residents in Maine to represent Maine Policy Matters Podcast episode on antiracist public policy in Maine.

S3E4 Antiracist Public Policy in Maine: Reflecting on a Troubling Past for a Better Future

This episode of Maine Policy Matter covers an article by James Myall, a policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy. James Myall’s article, “Race and Public Policy in Maine: Past, Present, and Future” explores the impact of historic policy decisions on people of color in Maine. [00:00:00] Eric Miller: Trying to understand the history of race […]

A Lewiston Public Works truck lays down salt and sand as it makes its way up Pine Street in Lewiston during a past storm. (Sun Journal file photo)

S3E3 Winter Roads, Salt, and the Slippery Slope

This episode of Maine Policy Matters explores the findings of a report on the use of road salt in Maine, “Road Salt and Maine: An Assessment of Practices, Impacts, and Safety,” which was published by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. They report presents the results from a research project by a team from the […]

In this Maine Public, May 21, 2012 file photo, Scott Beede returns an undersized lobster while checking traps in Mount Desert, Maine. Ocean temperatures are warmer-than-usual again in the Gulf of Maine, creating worries among lobstermen that there could be a repeat of last summer's early harvest that created a glut on the market and havoc within the industry.

S3E2 Maine’s Lobster Industry: What Does the Future Hold?

This episode of Maine Policy Matters covers an article by James and Ann Acheson entitled “What Does the Future Hold for Maine’s Lobster Industry?” which explores problems the industry faces including shell disease, climate change, increased regulations to protect right whales, and economic uncertainty. The article also focuses on several approaches that could help protect the lobster […]

Maine Policy Review cover depicting an the word COVID with the "o" as a surprised face

Maine Policy Review, Volume 31, Numbers 1-2, Available

Maine Policy Review, Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2, is now available on MPR’s Digital Commons site. Print copies will be mailed to subscribers in late February. A brief look at the content of this issue is available on MPR’s website. Vol. 31, Nos. 1-2, starts off with the Margaret Chase Smith essay by Anna Kellar, which […]

Wind turbines in the ocean near a large yellow pole: harnessing renewable energy from the sea.

S3E1 Mary Morrissey’s Comparison of Rhode Island’s and Maine’s Offshore Wind Development

This episode explores how Maine can use Rhode Island as a model to guide offshore wind development in federal waters. This episode is based on an article by Mary Morrissey, “Maine and Offshore Wind Development: Using the Coastal Zone Management Act and Marine Spatial Planning to Influence Projects in Federal Waters,” published in Volume 31, […]

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 […]

"Chart of Mortality of the Great Plague in London from 1665-6" used in Frank O'Hara's Maine Policy Review article showing the spike in cases between June and December of 1665 with cases spiking to 8,000 in September 1665 to represent the Maine Policy Matters podcast episode on comparing COVID-19 to the Great London Plague of 1665.

S2E8 Comparing COVID-19 to the Great London Plague of 1665

This episode of Maine Policy Matters explores Frank O’Hara’s commentary from Maine Policy Review’s special issue on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the article, O’Hara uses historical accounts from a 5-year-old survivor of the London Plague of 1665, Daniel Defoe, to compare the experiences of that plague and the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. […]

S2E7 Sustainable Small Businesses and Employee Ownership

This episode of Maine Policy Matters explores the key to helping retirement-age business owners who have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The episode offers data and strategies from Rob Brown, the director of Business Ownership Solutions at the Cooperative Development Institute based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Business Ownership Solutions works throughout the Northeast states with […]

A bar graph that represents responses to the Maine Rapid Business Response survey, in which 70 percent to 75 percent of agricultural businesses reported negative effects during three waves of surveys in June and the BFRN follow-up survey in September, where 46 percent of respondents reported decreased sales (and 30 percent, increased sales) when comparing August 2019 to August 2020 to represent the Maine Policy Matters podcast episode on the Maine food system during the pandemic..

S2E6 Maine Food System and the Pandemic: Interview with JG Malacarne and Jason Lilley

This episode covers an article in Maine Policy Review by JG Malacarne, Jason Lilley, and Nancy McBrady, entitled “The Response of the Maine Food System to the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic,” which argues that reflecting on how the Maine food system weathered shocks early in the pandemic can help us prepare for future crises. […]

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