UMaine News

Bill Nemitz’ Friday Portland Press Herald Column examines issues related to a study by UMaine economist Todd Gabe, who looked at the potential economic impact of an Oxford County casino.

John Mahon of the UMaine Business School faculty was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about Maine’s ranking at the bottom of a recent Forbes magazine survey of business-friendly states. Mahon said he thought the ranking reflected the lack of a plan for sustainable economic development and a lack of effort in attracting business […]

The Village Soup website cited a study done by UMaine’s Center on Aging that shows the legal needs of the elderly are on pace to outweigh available resources in the next few years. Lenard Kaye, the director of the Center on Aging, was one of the primary authors of the report.

Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7920; Jaye Martin, Legal Services for the Elderly, (207) 621-0087 ORONO — A recent study of legal needs of aging Mainers by the University of Maine Center on Aging has confirmed that the number of older people needing legal services will outweigh available resources in the future. Up to half of […]

UMaine business professors John Mahon and Anne Canabal were quoted in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the impact of foreign investment on Maine’s economy.  The story is based on the news that at Hong Kong-based investment group is buying the pulp mill in Baileyville.

UMaine economist Todd Gabe has an op-ed in Friday’s Portland Press Herald about his recent study in which he detailed the potential economic impact of the proposed Oxford County resort casino. Gabe addresses the issue of whether or not the casino would bring in new revenues to Maine.

The Bangor Daily News followed U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud on Thursday as he visited two Hancock County businesses working with UMaine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance and Hugh Stevens of the UMaine School of Economics. Stevens is quoted in the story.

Mainebiz published a report based on “Knowledge in Cities,” a report co-authored by Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty.  The report looks at the workforce in nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian studies and categorizes them according to 11 groups devised by the study’s authors.  The study puts Portland in the “Thinking Region” […]

Contact: Paula Burnett, (207) 262-7926 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging recently received two grants from the United Way of Eastern Maine to continue two popular programs, the Center’s RSVP organization of community volunteers over the age of 55, and the RSVP Bone Builders exercise education program. The Center on Aging RSVP […]