The latest issue of Maine Policy Review is now available for download on Digital Commons. MPR Volume 25, number 2, features an essay from Maine Sen. Angus King on climate change and articles on topics of healthcare, bond referenda, international trade, and municipal waste reduction. Commentaries address the Arctic Council, the presidential election, and financial literacy. This […]
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Kathleen Mundell of the Maine Arts Commission discusses the effort to foster creativity in older Mainers in an interview with MPBN and in the latest issue of Maine Policy Review. Listen to the interview: http://news.mpbn.net/post/artists-join-effort-cultivate-creativity-aging-mainers#stream/0 Read Mundell’s article in MPR: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol24/iss2/18/
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Patricia Oh, coordinator of older adult services in Bowdoinham, spoke as part of a month-long series that focuses on the challenges faced by Maine’s increasing population of older adults and how public policy is addressing them. Oh and other guests in the series contributed to the Maine Policy Review’s “Special Issue on Aging,” produced by […]
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The first in a series of interviews with authors from the special issue on aging of Maine Policy Review is available. Interviews will be broadcast on Mondays throughout the month. This week Irwin Gratz of MPBN spoke with Julie Fralich, whose article “Shaping the Health and Long-Term-Care Infrastructure Serving Older Adults: Historical Trends and Future Directions” appeared […]
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A new issue of Maine Policy Review is now available for download. Read the press release here. Volume 24, Issue 2 (2015) Aging is available for download from Digital Commons.
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In part two of a radio series on the issue, MPBN Morning Edition host Irwing Gratz talks with Anna Sims Bartel about the role of the humanities in public policy. Bartel is associate director of Cornell University’s Center for Engaged Learning and Research and an author in the humanities issue of Maine Policy Review. See the article at MPBN: http://news.mpbn.net/post/humanities-how-they-can-help-shape-public-policy […]
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