Overview of Maine’s Term Limits Law
Read the full report | Almost fifteen years ago, Maine’s legislative term limits law was enacted as a result of a citizen’s initiative measure that won the support of 68 […]
Read More →An End to the Era of Defined Benefits
Today’s announced agreement between United Auto Workers and General Motors to resolve the ongoing dispute about retirement health benefits represents the monumental shift in defined retirement benefits. The $55 million […]
Read More →Civic Education in the University of Maine System
Read the full report | “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects something that never was and never will be.” It is with this quote from […]
Read More →Model Legislation in Action
Last week, The Maine Heritage Policy Center released the final draft of the new model legislation that, if enacted, would create a tax and expenditure limitation (TEL) for Maine. On […]
Read More →Saving Our Small Schools: Is Privatization an Option?
Read the full report | Maine’s small schools are in danger. Though legislators deliberating Governor Baldacci’s school system consolidation proposal could have found other ways to generate administrative savings within and […]
Read More →Affordability, Accessibility or Priority? Defining and Understanding Maine’s Uninsured
Read the full report | Today, the US Census Bureau released figures on the uninsured rate for Maine, the other states and the US as a whole for 2006. This […]
Read More →How Consolidation Threatens School Choice
Read the full report | What the people of Arrowsic, Georgetown, Phippsburg, West Bath, and Woolwich are being encouraged to do would shock supporters of school choice across the nation, […]
Read More →The Sinclair Act at 50: What History Tells Us about the Consequences of Consolidation
Read the full report | How much of the following sounds familiar? Maine people were told by the “powers that be” that the state’s schools were too costly. The problem, […]
Read More →NCSL: Junket or Conference?
Was NCSL trip for 32 Legislators a Conference or a Junket? Well, The 2007 NCSL Conference has finally come to an end. The 9,700 attendees have finally recovered from 4 […]
Read More →Governor Jeb Bush: A Record of Leadership and Policy Accomplishment
Read the full report | In his two terms as Florida’s 43rd governor, Jeb Bush challenged the status quo and reshaped state government in order to lead Florida, the nation’s […]
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