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The Margaret Chase Smith
Essay: Maine Code of Election Ethics
by Gregory P. Gallant
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Learning and Earning in
Vacationland: Promoting Education and Economic
Opportunity in Maine
Over the last 40 years our economy has become
increasingly reliant on skilled workers with a
postsecondary education. Carnevale and Desrochers
document this trend across all sectors of Maine’s
economy, and then look at where the jobs will be in the
future, and the readiness of Mainers to fill the growing
demand for college-educated workers.
by Anthony P. Carnevale & Donna M. Desrochers
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Economic Prosperity in
Maine: Held Back by the Lack of Higher Education
The largest explanation for Maine’s relatively low
education attainment is that traditional-aged,
high-school graduates are leaving the state in droves to
pursue college and, once gone, they remain away. To
reverse this trend, Trostel says we need to lower
in-state tuition costs and substantially improve the
quality of higher education in Maine.
by Philip A. Trostel
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Barriers to Postsecondary
Education in Maine: Making College the Obvious and
Attainable Next Step for More Maine Students
The question of why more high school students don’t go
on to college has been the focus of recent research at
the Mitchell Institute. Quint and Plimpton summarize
this research and conclude with a set of practical
recommendations for reducing the barriers Maine students
face to attending college.
by Colleen J. Quint & Lisa Plimpton
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Maine’s Investment
Imperative
Maine’s State Economist Laurie Lachance outlays a
long-term investment strategy for Maine that focuses on
education, research and development, comprehensive tax
reform, greater efficiencies in the delivery of state
and local services, and limits on government spending.
Lachance argues that choices must be made even in times
of fiscal crisis. Failure to invest means failure,
period.
by Laurie G. Lachance
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The Perils of Voice and The
Desire for Stealth Democracy
This article presents the first of two addresses given
at the May 2002 Maine Town Meeting sponsored by the
Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan. Theiss-Morse
presents evidence that Americans do not necessarily want
to participate in politics, nor does their participation
result in better decisions, a better system or better
people.
by Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
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The Project of Democracy
This article presents the second of two addresses given
at the May 2002 Maine Town Meeting sponsored by the
Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan. Keyssar
chronicles the advances and contrac-tions of democratic
political rights in American history, and argues the
contest over democratic rights in the United States is
ongoing and will never be finished.
by Alexander Keyssar
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Teenage Births in Maine:
Positive Trends But More to Be Done
Although teen birth rates have fallen by 34% over the
past decade, they remain unacceptably high. King and
Marks applaud the state’s efforts so far, and call for
more education, more funding, and more economic and
social supports for our young adults most in need.
by Leslie King & Stephen Marks
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Why More Is Required to
Address Maine’s Childhood Lead-Poisoning Problem
Childhood lead poisoning has been identified as one of
Maine’s leading environmental health problems. Littell
discusses why this is so and what can be done to remedy
the situation. He argues that Maine must do much more if
it intends to achieve its policy goal of ending
childhood lead poisoning by 2010.
by David Littell
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Snowmobiling in Maine: Past
Successes, Future Challenges
Snowmobiling in Maine is a major tourist draw
enjoyed by thousands every winter. Still, as Vail points
out — and as the number of snowmobile- related deaths
this winter confirms — growth in the industry has not
come without costs and conflicts related to hot-spot
congestion, over use of the state’s major trails,
noise and air pollution, and free riding. Vail argues
the state should act now to alleviate these conflicts
and to avert future ones.
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