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Maine Policy Matters Podcast Season 4
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center’s official podcast, Maine Policy Matters, is set to launch Season 4 at the end of August 2023. Season 4 will feature panels with specialists and community members on topics like moose and ticks, the Clean Water Act, AI in higher education, and investing in teachers. Meanwhile, the collection of MPM episodes can […]
Read moreMaine Policy Review Commemorates 50 Years of the Clean Water Act with Special Section
Maine Policy Review is pleased to announce the release of a special section titled “50 Years of the Clean Water Act.” This section commemorates the significant milestone of half a century since the enactment of the Clean Water Act and highlights Maine’s efforts to improve water quality and the need to maintain and strengthen water […]
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Maine Policy Review Commemorates 50 Years of the Clean Water Act with Special Section
Maine Policy Review is pleased to announce the release of a special section titled “50 Years of the Clean Water Act.” This section commemorates the significant milestone of half a century since the enactment of the Clean Water Act and highlights Maine’s efforts to improve water quality and the need to maintain and strengthen water quality […]
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S3E9 Making Maine More Attractive for Young People
Today’s episode has two parts. Part one is a synopsis of Amanda Rector’s article, “Maine’s Changing Demographics: Implications for Workforce, Economy, and Policy”. Part two features an interview with Everett Beals and Michael Delorge, winners of Margaret Chase Smith Library’s 2020 essay contest. Beals’s article is titled, “Making Maine More Attractive to Young People” and […]
Read moreS3E8 Drug Related Morbidity and Mortality in Maine: An Economic Perspective
This episode covers an article by Angela Daley, Prianka Sarker, Liam Siguad, Marcella Sorg, and Jamie Wren titled, “Drug-related Morbidity and Mortality in Maine: Lost Productivity from 2015-2020.” After briefly summarizing the article, we speak with Dr. Sorg and Prianka Sarker about the opioid epidemic and how we go about quantifying some of the costs […]
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S3E7 The Tale of Maine’s Public Lots: Loss and Recovery
This episode of Maine Policy Matters focuses on an article by Richard Barringer, Lee Schepps, Tomas Urquhart, and Martin Wilk titled “Maine’s Public Reserved Lands: A Tale of Loss and Recovery.” The authors tell the story of Maine’s public reserved lots and their history to show how efforts to maintain these lots has preserved Maine’s […]
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S3E6 Empowering Maine Women through Community Leadership
On this episode, we interview the authors of a 2018 MPR article entitled, “Our Path: Empower Maine Women Network and Leadership.” [00:00:00] Eric Miller: Welcome to Maine Policy Matters, a podcast from the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine. I’m Eric Miller, research Associate at the Center. Today, we’ll be following up on a […]
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Special Issue on Maine’s Share Ocean—Call for Submissions
It is with great pleasure that Maine Policy Review Editors announce a call for submissions for a special issue devoted to identifying and exploring the complex issues about the ocean and coastline that will affect Maine’s future. This special issue, “Our Shared Ocean” is important and timely because of external threats, competing interests, shifting uses, policy […]
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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 […]
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