In the article, “Maine has found a stunning way to keep the poor in poverty,” the Washington Post cited a Bangor Daily News blog post by University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried. Starting as early as Nov. 1, the state will place a $5,000 cap on the savings and other assets of residents […]
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Bangor Metro reported Waldo County resident Bob MacGregor was inspired to start a wood bank after reading a Bangor Daily News editorial last November by Jessica Leahy, a professor of human dimensions of natural resources at the University of Maine. “In the first paragraph she described a wood bank as, essentially, a food bank, just […]
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Elizabeth Nieman, an assistant professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Maine, and Elisa Sanse, a UMaine Ph.D. student in history, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “The Bangor school dress code controversy proves girls are still judged by their appearance.” Sanse is taking a […]
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News, titled “GOP presidential candidates dig their own electoral graves on immigration.” Glover is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the […]
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University of Maine student Samantha Morse wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Poliquin’s vote may make it harder for Mainers to afford college.” Morse grew up in Peru, Maine, and is a graduate of Dirigo High School. She is a third-year political science major at the University of Maine and communications […]
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University of Maine student Adam Fortier-Brown wrote an opinion piece published by Centralmaine.com titled, “Boys State started teen on the road to an internship at the State House.” Fortier-Brown of Randolph is a first-year student at the University of Maine where he is studying economics and political science.
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The Portland Press Herald published an opinion piece by Charles Scontras, historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, titled “Early 20th-century Maine workers would have understood Bernie Sanders.”
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Let’s keep the faith in Social Security’s future.” Kaye is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “A ticket into the shrinking middle class,” by Mick Peterson, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine.
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Robert Seymour, the Curtis Hutchins Professor of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Maine can’t cut more trees from its public forests on a whim.” As lawmakers left Augusta last month, they left a debate unsettled about how much wood to cut from Maine’s public forests, […]
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