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{"title":"Municipal Capacity to Respond to COVID-19: Implications for Improving Community Resilience in Maine","authors":"Vanessa R. Levesque, Eileen S. Johnson, K. Bell","doi":"10.53558/frpi9064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/frpi9064","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore how 50 Maine municipalities communicated their response to COVID-19 in the earliest stages of the pandemic. Our study answers two questions: (1) What information and resources did Maine municipalities communicate about COVID-19? and (2) What characterizes a more robust communication response? Analyzing digital communications from March through July 2020, we found almost all municipalities in our sample communicated basic information about altered town operations. Some towns provided more robust responses that evolved over time and included nuanced messages about COVID-19, a sense of community, and collaborations with partners. While smaller, more rural municipalities may have fewer residents and resources, many showed a larger-than-expected capacity to pivot quickly and rally together to respond to COVID-19 and communicate about that response.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48273685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impacts of COVID-19 on Tourism in Bar Harbor, Maine","authors":"Todd Gabe","doi":"10.53558/nkbz5308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/nkbz5308","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effects of COVID-19 on tourism in Bar Harbor, Maine. The analysis considers four channels by which the pandemic affected Bar Harbor: (1) reduction in overnight visitors, (2) decrease in Acadia National Park users, (3) cancellation of the 2020 cruise ship season, and (4) a national effect related to trends in overall US restaurant sales. The relative impacts of these four factors on Bar Harbor restaurant sales varied widely by month: the reduction in overnight tourists explains 40 percent of the overall decline; the national effect is associated with 35 percent of Bar Harbor’s decline; the cancellation of all cruise ship visits in 2020 explains 11 percent; and the reduction in the number of Acadia National Park users is responsible for 14 percent of the decline in restaurant sales in 2020. Knowing more about the channels by which COVID-19 affected hospitality sales in Bar Harbor can help state and local officials with recovery efforts and support tourism along the Maine coast.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48793913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring COVID-19 Impacts on Maine Tourism Using an Online Photo-Sharing Site","authors":"Tracy Michaud, Colleen Metcalf, M. Bampton","doi":"10.53558/ldvl2781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/ldvl2781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47039718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community Support for Low-Income Elementary School Students with a Winter Gear Drive under COVID 19 Constraints","authors":"Paige Wentworth, L. Kuntz","doi":"10.53558/gsby4532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/gsby4532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43060020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Our American Nightmare: The Anachronistic Disaster of the Electoral College","authors":"Sofia Durdag","doi":"10.53558/dgfs3633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/dgfs3633","url":null,"abstract":"Each year the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for high school seniors. The essay prompt for 2021 asked students to offer their opinions on whether the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness, or if it is more important than ever given the country’s current deep political polarization. This is the first-place essay.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46755354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest Policies and Adaptation to Climate Change in Maine: Stakeholder Perceptions and Recommendations","authors":"A. Soucy, S. De Urioste-Stone, I. Fernandez, A. Weiskittel, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, T. Doak","doi":"10.53558/xnwp9949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/xnwp9949","url":null,"abstract":"Socioeconomic pressures require forest management to address the impacts of climate change. However, we must ask, Are current forest policies sufficient to deal with the impacts of climate change? Here, we report on two surveys of forest stakeholders in Maine including woodlot owners and forestry professionals and discuss their perceptions of the barriers to climate change adaptation. We conclude with several policy directions including reevaluating existing policies, expanding incentive-based policies, integrating adaptation efforts into mitigation efforts, and increasing communication and outreach.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48980846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legislative Amendment of Citizen Initiatives: Where the “Will of the Voter” Meets the “Consent of the Elector”","authors":"Derek P. Langhauser","doi":"10.53558/tgak4010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/tgak4010","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the issues involved in legislative amendment of citizen initiatives in Maine by explaining the legislature’s authority to amend or repeal citizen initiatives, how and why the Maine Constitution specifically provides for that authority, and how and why that approach is conceptually consistent with numerous other provisions and principles of our Constitution. This article further suggests the types of issues that, regardless of the subject matter in question, the legislature should consider in deter­mining whether, and if so how and when, to change a directly democratic act of the people. Such considerations when earnestly applied can serve to balance the legislature’s representational duty to mind the popular will as well as its leadership responsibility to steward the state with the additional exercise of the legislature’s own lawmaking power.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46801586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Importance of Education and Trust Building for Wabanaki Self-Governance","authors":"Katie Tomer","doi":"10.53558/wczl9289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/wczl9289","url":null,"abstract":"Education and trust building are inextricably intertwined parts of addressing failed efforts of the state of Maine and the Wabanaki tribes to resolve tribal self-governance issues. Lack of structural and financial support for the delivery of Wabanaki Studies Law content directly affects tribal-state relations and Wabanaki self-determination in Maine. This article examines legislative proposals, current laws, and scholarly research and explore how they relate to tribal self-governance. Maine needs strategies for trust building and increased educational experiences for all Maine residents about Wabanaki people and ways of knowing.","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46410424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"History of Deer Herd Reduction for Tick Control on Maine’s Offshore Islands","authors":"S. Elias, Benjamin Stone, P. Rand, C. Lubelczyk, Robert P. Smith","doi":"10.53558/oywu2247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/oywu2247","url":null,"abstract":"The incidence of Lyme disease in Maine is associated with high abundance of blacklegged (deer) ticks, which in turn has been partly attributed to local overabundance of white-tailed deer. With evidence from Monhegan Island that the complete removal of deer reduced ticks and risk of contracting Lyme disease, nine other offshore communities initiated efforts to cull deer. We reviewed and summarized available histories of deer management on Maine’s offshore islands. Concern about Lyme disease provided the overarching impetus for deer culls. Culls mostly occurred on islands that have no regular firearms hunting season, island communities have been challenged to control deer numbers, and social acceptance of deer culls varied. Integrated tick management (ITM) is the key to controlling ticks, but statewide ITM policy is lacking. Formation of vector control districts with statewide ITM policy would support all communities in Maine. In the Northeast including Maine, blacklegged ticks feed on birds, rodents, and deer (Eisen et al. 2016). Migratory birds disperse tick larvae and nymphs over long distances (e.g., Smith et al. 1996). Locally, white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) and some other rodent species are reservoirs of B. burgdorferi and transmit this pathogen to feeding blacklegged tick larvae and nymphs (e.g., Mather et al. 1989). However, blacklegged tick adults do not feed on mice. Indeed, the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) is the most important host of adult blacklegged ticks by providing a mating site to adults and providing roughly 90 percent of female blacklegged tick blood meals (Wilson et al. 1990). A blood-fed, female blacklegged tick may lay approximately 2,000 eggs (Mount et al. 1997). Given the importance of white-tailed deer for completion of the blacklegged tick life cycle, and correlations between deer and tick numbers (e.g., Rand et al. 2003), high blacklegged tick density on New England’s offshore islands has been attributed to overabundant white-tailed deer. Accordingly, over the past three decades, New England island communities including several of Maine’s—such as Monhegan and Islesboro—have debated and in some cases implemented the controversial task of reducing their deer herds in an attempt to lower risk of tick bites and tickborne illnesses. Monhegan’s history of deer removal is the best known example of community management of a deer herd on an offshore island in Maine. In the 1990s, concern about Lyme disease led the community to remove all deer, which resulted in a substantial decline in blacklegged tick density (Rand et al. 2004). Other Maine offshore island communities, facing locally burgeoning deer densities, began to cull (reduce) deer. Maine has 15 unbridged, offshore islands with year-round populations (Figure 1). The formation of town tick or deer control committees in some of these communities reflects the broader concept that betterment of public health sometimes hinges on community-initiated polic","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49046153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to Save Jobs and Build Back Better: Employee Ownership Transitions as a Key to an Equitable Economic Recovery","authors":"Robert Brown","doi":"10.53558/hoze8462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53558/hoze8462","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34576,"journal":{"name":"Maine Policy Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42168280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}