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Volume 9 Number 1
Winter 2000
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Maine Policy Review
5715 Coburn Hall
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5715
tel: 207-581-1553
fax: 207-581-1266
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Retaining Income as One
of Two Factors in Maine’s School Aid
Funding Formula
by Michael F. Brennan and Orlando E.
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The Celtic Tiger:
Ireland’s Economic Success Story
In his keynote address at the June 1999
Governor’s Economic Development Conference, Kieran
McGowan identified four key factors in Ireland’s
economic transformation: a young and highly-educated
workforce, an aggressive and well-funded inward
investment program, European Union transfers, and a
partnership approach to economic planning. He points
out that Maine has many of the right ingredients to
foster similar economic growth, but also says
achieving success requires coordinated action and
the will to stay the course over the long-term. This
article is an edited version of McGowan’s remarks
at last year’s conference.
by Kieran McGowan |
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The Irish Education System and the
Economy
The educational roots of Ireland’s
economic miracle stretch back more than thirty
years. At last year’s Governor’s Economic Development Conference,
Paddy McDonagh outlined Ireland’s educational strategies and
investments of the past thirty years; as he pointed out, Ireland recognized long ago that the development of the
education and skills of people is as important a
source of wealth as the accumulation of more
traditional forms of capital. This article summarizes McDonagh’s conference remarks and describes some more recent
initiatives embarked upon since the conference.
by Paddy McDonagh |
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Whither Maine’s Population
Demographic changes affect many aspects of a
state’s economic and community well-being. In
this article, the authors describe some of the potential
impacts of Maine’s changing population. In particular, they note
that Maine’s population is aging, the percentage of Maine youth is declining faster than in other New England states,
and that rates of growth remain relatively slow
throughout most counties in Maine. The authors
describe each of these trends and discuss the implications for
Maine’s labor force, education and health care systems.
by Deirdre M. Mageean, Gillian AvRuskin, and Richard Sherwood |
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Higher Education in Maine: A
Conversation with Sally Vamvakias
In 1999 Sally Vamvakias stepped down
as chair of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, a
position she held for the last four years
of her ten-year tenure. In this interview, conducted for Maine Policy Review
by Luisa S.
Deprez, Vamvakias talks about the change that
electronic forms of knowledge transmission are bringing to higher education, and lays out the challenges to the
University of Maine System as we begin a
new century. |
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Chronic Disease: The
Epidemic of the Twentieth Century
When it comes to public health, we have much
to celebrate but more to consider as we begin a
new century. One hundred years ago only one-in-six
people died of a chronic condition; today, three-quarters of
Maine people die from four chronic, and mostly preventable diseases. Unfortunately, not only does Maine have one of the
nation’s highest eath rates due to chronic
disease, it also leads the nation in the three behavioral
risk factors that cause or exacerbate chronic disease. In this article,
Mills first chronicles Maine’s chronic disease epidemic, and second,
lays out a plan for strengthening the state’s disease prevention and health promotion efforts.
by Dora Anne Mills |
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Maine Forests: A Century of Change,
1900-2000…and elements of a policy
change for a new century
At the close of the nineteenth century,
the state ’s forest area was at an all time
low; landownership was changing rapidly with the emergence of
new paper companies; a growing number of wildlife species were threatened;
widespread unease over the future of Maine’s forests was evident.
Today, a similar unease is evident. To help us reflect on where we’ve been, where we are today, and how we might
proceed in the future, Lloyd Irland presents
seven different images of the Maine forest; he
argues for a pragmatic approach to managing Maine’s forest that equally weighs each of these different images.
by Lloyd Irland
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