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Opportunity Maine

Making College Affordable for Mainers Who Want It

We're damn proud of our partnership with Opportunity Maine.  We made history, we made a law and we revolutionized the way states can deal with the problem of student debt and brain drain. 

Opportunity Maine gives any person who goes to school in Maine, then stays and works in Maine, a tax credit to pay back their student loans.  It's a quadruple play: it attracts more Mainers to go to college, it encourages graduates to stay in state, it brings in money because more graduates equal more tax payers and it attracts new jobs because more graduates also attracts employers.  It's brilliant and much needed. 

The League helped found the organization and worked side by side the over 500 volunteers who collected over 73,000 signatures to pass this generation's most innovative and promising solution to the problem of student debt. 

And yeah, Opportunity Maine has already been signed into law but we still have an active campaign going.  We now need to make sure that every Mainer knows about our solution and
begins taking advantage of it once it comes online, in January of 2008.

 ­Read more about our groundbreaking solution

The New York Times / In These Times / Huffington Post / AP / ­Alternet / DMI

Watch Gov. Baldacci Sign Opportunity Maine into law

November 6th, 2007

Voting's Still Sexy, Even When the Elections Aren't

 
That's right - a lot of other youth groups aren't talking 'bout no 2007 election, but we are.  Instead of looking ahead to '08 in '07, we're focusing on the now and on the local: that's League-style. 

Voters across Maine will decide on four statewide questions:

do we want a Racino in Washington County?

should we extend lawmakers term limits from 4 to 6 terms?

and there's three bond questions: one for investment in higher education; one for stimulating growth in the technology sector; and one for ecological and heritage preservation.

Portland voters will also do some additional electing:

there is an at-large, citywide race for City Council and School Committee

District 3 residents will elect both a City Councilor and a School Cmte Rep

and we'll elect a Water Trustee, another citywide race.

What's the League gonna do 'bout the election? 

We're going to give folks information about where to vote, what's on the ballot, how to vote early and all that stuff - check out the Secretary of State's website.

We're holding a Candidates Forum on September 11th at the Community Television Network on Congress Street.  We'll educate our live studio audience and broadcast to all Portlander's, allowing Leaguer's and the public at large to meet our candidates for office.

And you know, we're putting out super-fly Voter Guides and endorsing candidates who stand for good stuff - stuff like energy efficiency, investment in education and the arts and other things that Leaguer's are down with.  Our members decide who we endorse, so e-mail us to find out how you become a member

We'll be doing a lot more too...stay tuned.