Policy Soundings
- Health Care Reform: Will it Help Solve Maine's Cost Crisis?
- Featuring Dr. Erik Steele, D.O., FAAFP, Interim CEO, Blue Hill Memorial Hospital (Maine); Elizabeth Mitchell, CEO, Maine Health Management Coalition/Foundation; and Trish Riley, Maine Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance
- June 4, 2010
- Public Education in Maine: A Financial Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
- Featuring David Flanagan, former chair of UMS Task Force; Mark Gray, executive director of the Maine Education Association; and Jim Morse, superintendent of Portland Public Schools
- February 12, 2010
- Maine's Looming Budget Crisis: Do TABOR 2 and the Excise Tax Cut Really Matter?
- Featuring Dr. Tracy Gordon, Univerisity of Maryland; Steve Bowen, Maine Heritage Policy Center; and Christopher St. John, Maine Center for Economic Policy
- October 14, 2009
- Same Sex Marriage: Is It Right for Maine?
- Featuring Maine State Senator Dennis Damon (D), Maine State Representative Les Fossel (R), Shenna Bellows (Maine Civil Liberties Union), Marc Mutty (Catholic Diocese), and Ron Gobeil (Maine Marriage Initiative)
- April 15, 2009
- Keeping Pace: An Agenda for Maine in a Changing World
- Eliot Cutler
- January 27, 2009
- Maine 1st Congressional District Debate
- Chellie Pingree (D) and Charles Summers (R)
- October 10, 2008
- USM: Why it is Important to our Economic Future
- Featuring Dr. Selma Botman, USM President; Mike Dubyak, Vice-Chair of USM's Board of Visitors and President & CEO of Wright Express Corp; and Ed Suslovic, Mayor, City of Portland
- April 16th, 2008
- Maine's Energy Future: What Will It Cost You?
- Featuring Kurt Adams, Maine PUC Commissioner; John Hurt, Finance Director, National Semiconductor; and Rep. Philip Bartlett, Chair of the Utilities and Energy Committee of the Maine Legislature
- January 29, 2008
- Tax Reform in Maine
- Featuring Rep. Glenn Cummings, Rep. Josh Tardy, Counselor Jim Cohen, and Kevin Hancock
- October 31, 2007
Muskie News
Professor Andrew Coburn discusses the business case for healthy employees in the Bangor Daily News
“Employers typically view health and health care as costs to be managed and have been changing the structure of their health benefit programs to create incentives for employees to seek better value in the health care they consume. And many larger employers such as Maine Health, Bath Iron Works, Cianbro and others are encouraging employees [...]
New Issue of Muskie School ‘Connections’
Spring 2012 Connections is here! Read more about the many programs and projects related to the environment, the economy and sustainable communities within the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine.
