By Steve Kolowich AUGUSTA—Two-term Maine Gov. John Baldacci is no stranger to the Bowdoin campus. In October, Baldacci spoke at the re-opening of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and on Monday the governor stopped by a government class to talk Maine politics with students. The Orient caught up with Baldacci this week in his [...]
By Ellen London Two years ago, Andrew Bossie, student-body president of the University of Southern Maine, came up with what seemed like an illusory goal, a holy grail of student initiatives: a referendum to offer debt relief for college students upon graduation. Fueled by the growing problem of college tuition expenses and the dismay of [...]
By Joel Theriault Opportunity Maine campaigners returned to USM on Oct. 1 to unveil the Opportunity Maine tax credit card, a form of identification for recent college graduates enrolled in the newly established program and a physical reminder to sign up for the tax credit in January, when it becomes effective by law. The organization [...]
By Dave Choate Fighting “brain drain” in Maine can be a pain. With a new law in place to give tax credits to college students who stay in the state to live and work after graduation, Gov. John Baldacci and Maine officials are hopeful they can give the best and brightest some incentive to stick [...]
Opportunity Maine launches today with an official ceremony at 3 p.m. at USM. Beginning in January 2008, every Maine student who graduates from a Maine college and stays in Maine to live and work and enrolls in the program will get a large tax credit to help pay their student loans each year for the [...]
By Kristi Ceccarossi The state of Vermont, which is losing its young people at an alarming rate, wants them back. So on Wednesday, a crew of state employees and headhunters boarded a bus in Montpelier headed for The Living Room, a swanky bar in Boston’s North End. There, they hosted a party for 75 young [...]
OpEd by Cliff Ginn and Justin Alfond As the legacies of two of the best-known business leaders and philanthropists in the state, we both now live, work and play in Maine because of its people, its unique sensibility, and because our roots here run deep. From an early age, we learned from our families that [...]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A student-led group Tuesday announced a campaign to initiate legislation that would provide state income tax credits to offset student loans to graduates of Maine colleges or universities who stay and work in the state.
LEWISTON – Maine-educated college students who agree to stay in Maine after they graduate would get tax credits on their college loans under a proposal being pushed by a group of Maine students. The group, Opportunity Maine, began a petition drive on Tuesday to gather the required 50,519 signatures from registered voters by Jan. 25 [...]
By ADAM DOSTER College graduates in Maine may no longer be looking off into the distance when it comes to searching for jobs. Andrew Bossie was tired of bad ballot referendums. After spending the fall of 2005 with Maine student activists and the League of Young Voters fighting a referendum that would have gutted an [...]
