Poison Ivy: How elite colleges divide us \u2014 Next Big Idea Club<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nEvan Mandery, author of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide U<\/em>s, offers Bates and President Clayton Spencer as a hopeful example of how elite colleges can avoid being institutions that merely perpetuate systems of wealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\nMany \u201celite colleges show [their students] no obvious alternative\u201d to pursuing high-paying jobs in finance and similar career fields, \u201cor at least none with significant status and prestige,\u201d writes Mandery in an essay for Next Big Idea Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt Bates, Spencer has \u201cdefined her presidency around work,” writes Mandery, referring to the college’s nationally known effort to help students find purpose in their future work, an initiative now driven by the college’s Center for Purposeful Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/09\/Casey-Winter_039.webp\")
A Purposeful Work intern at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston, Casey Winter \u201923 of Malvern, Pa., gained an appreciation for two habits of mind that are invaluable to a STEM researcher: troubleshooting and collaboration. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n“Under her leadership, Bates opened a center that encourages faculty to connect their courses to discussions of meaning and careers, created practitioner-in-residence positions, and built a course to help students think about the architecture of life. The leading career choices among Bates graduates are education and health care \u2014 which respectively attract 17 and 13 percent of the class. At Harvard, the equivalent numbers are two and four.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cPoison ivy: How elite colleges divide us<\/a>,\u201d Next Big Idea Club, <\/em>Jan. 5, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMarshall Hatch \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\nBates College marks MLK Jr. Day with documentary featuring alumnus \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> covered a visit to campus by Marshall Hatch \u201910, who took part in a screening and discussion of the documentary All These Sons<\/em> as part of the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance. The film follows Hatch as he leads the MAAFA project in Chicago, a faith-based residential program in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for adult men of color who are at risk in some way, including some who are rejoining the community after incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"2pm](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/230115_MLK_Marshall_Hatch_Screening_1711.webp\")
As Mary Pols of Bates Communications looks on, Marshall Hatch ’10 speaks to the Olin Arts Center concert hall audience following a Jan. 15 screening of the documentary All These Sons<\/em>, which features Hatch’s work in Chicago. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nInterviewed after the screening by Mary Pols, media relations specialist for Bates Communications who profiled Hatch for Bates Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Hatch said that \u201cwe need to tell a different story\u201d about the young Black men of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHe told the story of how, in summer 2014, a father and son, both named Samuel Walker, died by gunfire in the West Garfield Park neighborhood a week apart. The media quickly labeled both as gang members, Hatch told the audience in Olin Arts Center, which \u201cset off a fire in me because it immediately dehumanized them. It justified the killings, in a way. It let the reader off the hook about society\u2019s responsibility to each other. That\u2019s the story I wanted to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next day, Sun Journal<\/em> reporter Vanessa Paolella \u201921 covered the MLK Day keynote address by playwright and actor Keith Hamilton Cobb.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRead the stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- \u201cBates College marks MLK Jr. Day with documentary featuring alumnus<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em>, Jan. 15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n- \u201cActor, playwright implores attendees to embrace activism at Bates MLK Day celebration<\/a>,\u201d Lewiston Sun Journal,<\/em> Jan. 16, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKristen Cloutier, Harward Center staff<\/h3>\n\n\n\nMaine House Democrats discuss their priorities for this legislative session \u2014 WMTW-TV<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nKristen Cloutier, a staffer in the college\u2019s Harward Center for Community Partnerships who is a Maine state representative, was featured in a WMTW story about Democratic women in top leadership positions in the Maine Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Maine house, \u201cfor the first time ever, women hold the speaker’s gavel and the next two top leadership positions,\u201d WMTW reporter Phil Hirschorn says. Cloutier, who is assistant majority leader, tells Hirshorn that her goals include increasing affordable housing in Lewiston and has high hopes for reaching those goals through collaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think we’re all pretty collaborative folks \u2014 my day job is collaboration all the time,” says Cloutier, who is assistant director for Harward Center operations and program coordinator for Project Pericles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cMaine House Democrats discuss their priorities for this legislative session<\/a>,\u201d WMTW-TV, Jan. 10, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nBates Dance Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\nFive pros share what they learned in summer intensives \u2014 Dance Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIn a story about summer dance intensives, Dance Magazine<\/em> quoted Rebecca Steinberg, a freelance dancer, choreographer, and educator, who described her deep affection for BDF and how the festival has helped her build valuable personal and professional relationships in the dance world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat I feel is really unique about Bates is that the schedule is structured around community. We take classes together, have meals together and hang out at night. There\u2019s no hierarchical separation between the faculty, staff and students. It\u2019s allowed me to sustain meaningful relationships with people that last much longer than the time we spent at the festival together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCreating impactful communities inside the dance world is something that is incredibly important to me. And Bates continues to be a great fit for me because we share that ethos in practice, not just in language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cFive Pros Share What They Learned in Summer Intensives<\/a>,” Dance Magazine<\/em>, Jan. 11, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCandace Johnson ’22 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nFrom health care to voting, immigrant-led group eases challenges for new Mainers \u2014 Beacon<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nCandace Johnson \u201922, co-executive director of the community-based organization AK Health and Social Services, spoke with the Beacon<\/em> about the work of providing access to healthcare, as well as accurate public health information, for the Mainers that the nonprofit serves, including immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and BIPOC communities in Lewiston-Auburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Candace](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/Candace-Johnson-.webp\")
Candace Johnson ’22 is the co-executive director of AK Health and Social Services in Lewiston, where she started working as a volunteer. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAmong its programs are vaccine clinics, and \u201cwe always are surprised\u201d by the large number of people who show up, says Johnson. In addition to a vaccine, they also receive good guidance. \u201cAll the negative stuff they hear\u201d about vaccines, \u201cwe\u2019re there to debunk it,\u201d Johnson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cFrom health care to voting, immigrant-led group eases challenges for new Mainers<\/a>,\u201d Beacon<\/em>, Dec. 27, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCharis Loveland \u201902<\/h3>\n\n\n\nHow leaders can combat burnout on their teams this winter \u2014 Inc.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nDepending on where you are on this planet, winter days can \u201cfeel like Groundhog Day sometimes, even if you love your job,” Amazon Web Services executive Charis Loveland \u201902 tells Inc.<\/em> for a story about how leaders can help their teams get through the challenges of a long winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWinter can bring \u201cthis feeling of dread or anxiety upon going into work, anxiety right upon waking, difficulty switching off at the end of the day, being over focused on work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As manager of Amazon’s emotional intelligence leadership program, Loveland delivers training for thousands of Amazon employees and partners. Among other tips, Loveland suggests scheduling regular time off \u2014 whether a day during the month or a few minutes every day \u2014 in order to be fully on at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also helps to understand and embrace one\u2019s daily ups and downs, says Loveland, noting that people tend to focus best in 90-minute spurts three times a day. “The way to make the most of it is to leverage your natural cycles.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cHow leaders can combat burnout on their teams this winter<\/a>,\u201d Inc.<\/em>, Dec. 8, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKen Kolb \u201998<\/h3>\n\n\n\nThe cost of unity \u2014 Greenville News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nKen Kolb \u201998, a professor of sociology at Furman University, is part of an investigative team of academics and journalists who say that urban redevelopment in Greenville, S.C., is forcing families out of historically Black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n![\"Kenneth](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/KenKolb-900x900.webp\")
Kenneth Kolb, a professor of sociology and department chair at Furman University, is the author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate.\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPublished in the Greenville News<\/em>, their six-part series, \u201cThe Cost of Unity,\u201d documenting gentrification and racial displacement in Greenville, S.C., and \u201cthe staggering loss of Black residents from a city with one of the highest racial economic disparities in the Southeast,\u201d the reporters say.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Kolb and his colleagues contributed both research and visual representation of data \u2014 interactive maps, charts, and graphs \u2014 for the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\nKolb also contributed an opinion piece about his research, explaining how \u201cGreenville\u2019s neighborhoods today are still shaped by the legacy of racist real-estate practices of the past,\u201d such as racially restrictive covenants that were \u201cwritten into property deeds going back to the early 1900s, forbade the sale of homes to non-white buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read Kolb\u2019s article: \u201cWho gets to be ‘revitalized’ in Greenville?<\/a>\u201d Greenville News<\/em>, Jan. 11, 2023,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Read a series installment: \u201cUnity Park was Greenville’s biggest price tag. Its cost might be Black neighborhoods, too<\/a>\u201d \u2014 Greenville News<\/em>, Jan. 11, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAnthony Phillips \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\nTruck parking is top issue for drivers \u2014 Transport Topics<\/em> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nLast November, the Philadelphia news media published extensive profiles of Anthony Phillips \u201910<\/a> as he ran for \u2014 and won, with 89 percent of the vote \u2014 a seat on the Philadelphia city council. <\/p>\n\n\n\nAll politics is local, said the late Tip O\u2019Neil, a truism that led to a trade publication on trucking focusing on Phillips as he tries to find a solution to a local issue affecting his Philadelphia district, and many neighborhoods across the country: commercial truckers who park their rigs in residential areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/20221128-IMG_4375.webp\")
Anthony Phillips ’10 is a newly elected city councilor in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia City Council)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe national trade publication Transport Topics<\/em> notes the problem and reports on Phillips\u2019 effort to find a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt is understandable that the drivers of these trucks \u2014 many of whom live in the neighborhoods in which they are parking \u2014 need somewhere to park their vehicles when they are home for a few days after several weeks on the road,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cBut it is unfair to residents who view these vehicles as a quality-of-life and public safety concern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n- Read the story: \u201cTruck parking is top issue for drivers<\/a>,\u201d \u2014 Transport Topics,<\/em> Jan. 10, 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKiernan Majerus-Collins \u201918 <\/h3>\n\n\n\nA big bipartisan opportunity to strengthen Maine\u2019s democracy \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"Kiernan](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/01\/Kiernan-Majerus-Collins-600x900.webp\")
Kiernan Majerus-Collins ’18 is currently studying law at the Boston University School of Law.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIn an opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Kiernan Majerus-Collins ’18 writes that while \u201cvoting rights are vigorously protected\u201d in Maine, the state\u2019s democratic system has flaws, including the fact that constitutional officers \u2014 secretary of state, state treasurer, and state attorney general \u2014 are selected by state legislators, not by voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cOur system of letting state legislators decide is extremely rare. The reason most states elect these offices is obvious: They are important jobs tasked with making critical decisions; the voting public deserves to decide who should hold them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Evan Mandery, author of Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide U<\/em>s, offers Bates and President Clayton Spencer as a hopeful example of how elite colleges can avoid being institutions that merely perpetuate systems of wealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many \u201celite colleges show [their students] no obvious alternative\u201d to pursuing high-paying jobs in finance and similar career fields, \u201cor at least none with significant status and prestige,\u201d writes Mandery in an essay for Next Big Idea Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Bates, Spencer has \u201cdefined her presidency around work,” writes Mandery, referring to the college’s nationally known effort to help students find purpose in their future work, an initiative now driven by the college’s Center for Purposeful Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Under her leadership, Bates opened a center that encourages faculty to connect their courses to discussions of meaning and careers, created practitioner-in-residence positions, and built a course to help students think about the architecture of life. The leading career choices among Bates graduates are education and health care \u2014 which respectively attract 17 and 13 percent of the class. At Harvard, the equivalent numbers are two and four.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em> covered a visit to campus by Marshall Hatch \u201910, who took part in a screening and discussion of the documentary All These Sons<\/em> as part of the college\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance. The film follows Hatch as he leads the MAAFA project in Chicago, a faith-based residential program in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for adult men of color who are at risk in some way, including some who are rejoining the community after incarceration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interviewed after the screening by Mary Pols, media relations specialist for Bates Communications who profiled Hatch for Bates Magazine<\/em><\/a>, Hatch said that \u201cwe need to tell a different story\u201d about the young Black men of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He told the story of how, in summer 2014, a father and son, both named Samuel Walker, died by gunfire in the West Garfield Park neighborhood a week apart. The media quickly labeled both as gang members, Hatch told the audience in Olin Arts Center, which \u201cset off a fire in me because it immediately dehumanized them. It justified the killings, in a way. It let the reader off the hook about society\u2019s responsibility to each other. That\u2019s the story I wanted to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next day, Sun Journal<\/em> reporter Vanessa Paolella \u201921 covered the MLK Day keynote address by playwright and actor Keith Hamilton Cobb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the stories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kristen Cloutier, a staffer in the college\u2019s Harward Center for Community Partnerships who is a Maine state representative, was featured in a WMTW story about Democratic women in top leadership positions in the Maine Legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Maine house, \u201cfor the first time ever, women hold the speaker’s gavel and the next two top leadership positions,\u201d WMTW reporter Phil Hirschorn says. Cloutier, who is assistant majority leader, tells Hirshorn that her goals include increasing affordable housing in Lewiston and has high hopes for reaching those goals through collaboration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I think we’re all pretty collaborative folks \u2014 my day job is collaboration all the time,” says Cloutier, who is assistant director for Harward Center operations and program coordinator for Project Pericles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a story about summer dance intensives, Dance Magazine<\/em> quoted Rebecca Steinberg, a freelance dancer, choreographer, and educator, who described her deep affection for BDF and how the festival has helped her build valuable personal and professional relationships in the dance world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat I feel is really unique about Bates is that the schedule is structured around community. We take classes together, have meals together and hang out at night. There\u2019s no hierarchical separation between the faculty, staff and students. It\u2019s allowed me to sustain meaningful relationships with people that last much longer than the time we spent at the festival together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCreating impactful communities inside the dance world is something that is incredibly important to me. And Bates continues to be a great fit for me because we share that ethos in practice, not just in language.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Candace Johnson \u201922, co-executive director of the community-based organization AK Health and Social Services, spoke with the Beacon<\/em> about the work of providing access to healthcare, as well as accurate public health information, for the Mainers that the nonprofit serves, including immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and BIPOC communities in Lewiston-Auburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among its programs are vaccine clinics, and \u201cwe always are surprised\u201d by the large number of people who show up, says Johnson. In addition to a vaccine, they also receive good guidance. \u201cAll the negative stuff they hear\u201d about vaccines, \u201cwe\u2019re there to debunk it,\u201d Johnson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Depending on where you are on this planet, winter days can \u201cfeel like Groundhog Day sometimes, even if you love your job,” Amazon Web Services executive Charis Loveland \u201902 tells Inc.<\/em> for a story about how leaders can help their teams get through the challenges of a long winter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Winter can bring \u201cthis feeling of dread or anxiety upon going into work, anxiety right upon waking, difficulty switching off at the end of the day, being over focused on work,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As manager of Amazon’s emotional intelligence leadership program, Loveland delivers training for thousands of Amazon employees and partners. Among other tips, Loveland suggests scheduling regular time off \u2014 whether a day during the month or a few minutes every day \u2014 in order to be fully on at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also helps to understand and embrace one\u2019s daily ups and downs, says Loveland, noting that people tend to focus best in 90-minute spurts three times a day. “The way to make the most of it is to leverage your natural cycles.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ken Kolb \u201998, a professor of sociology at Furman University, is part of an investigative team of academics and journalists who say that urban redevelopment in Greenville, S.C., is forcing families out of historically Black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n Published in the Greenville News<\/em>, their six-part series, \u201cThe Cost of Unity,\u201d documenting gentrification and racial displacement in Greenville, S.C., and \u201cthe staggering loss of Black residents from a city with one of the highest racial economic disparities in the Southeast,\u201d the reporters say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The author of Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> Kolb and his colleagues contributed both research and visual representation of data \u2014 interactive maps, charts, and graphs \u2014 for the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kolb also contributed an opinion piece about his research, explaining how \u201cGreenville\u2019s neighborhoods today are still shaped by the legacy of racist real-estate practices of the past,\u201d such as racially restrictive covenants that were \u201cwritten into property deeds going back to the early 1900s, forbade the sale of homes to non-white buyers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last November, the Philadelphia news media published extensive profiles of Anthony Phillips \u201910<\/a> as he ran for \u2014 and won, with 89 percent of the vote \u2014 a seat on the Philadelphia city council. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All politics is local, said the late Tip O\u2019Neil, a truism that led to a trade publication on trucking focusing on Phillips as he tries to find a solution to a local issue affecting his Philadelphia district, and many neighborhoods across the country: commercial truckers who park their rigs in residential areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The national trade publication Transport Topics<\/em> notes the problem and reports on Phillips\u2019 effort to find a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is understandable that the drivers of these trucks \u2014 many of whom live in the neighborhoods in which they are parking \u2014 need somewhere to park their vehicles when they are home for a few days after several weeks on the road,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cBut it is unfair to residents who view these vehicles as a quality-of-life and public safety concern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an opinion piece for the Portland Press Herald<\/em>, Kiernan Majerus-Collins ’18 writes that while \u201cvoting rights are vigorously protected\u201d in Maine, the state\u2019s democratic system has flaws, including the fact that constitutional officers \u2014 secretary of state, state treasurer, and state attorney general \u2014 are selected by state legislators, not by voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur system of letting state legislators decide is extremely rare. The reason most states elect these offices is obvious: They are important jobs tasked with making critical decisions; the voting public deserves to decide who should hold them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMarshall Hatch \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Bates College marks MLK Jr. Day with documentary featuring alumnus \u2014 Lewiston Sun Journal<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nKristen Cloutier, Harward Center staff<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Maine House Democrats discuss their priorities for this legislative session \u2014 WMTW-TV<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nBates Dance Festival<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Five pros share what they learned in summer intensives \u2014 Dance Magazine<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nCandace Johnson ’22 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
From health care to voting, immigrant-led group eases challenges for new Mainers \u2014 Beacon<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nCharis Loveland \u201902<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
How leaders can combat burnout on their teams this winter \u2014 Inc.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nKen Kolb \u201998<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The cost of unity \u2014 Greenville News<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nAnthony Phillips \u201910<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Truck parking is top issue for drivers \u2014 Transport Topics<\/em> <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nKiernan Majerus-Collins \u201918 <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A big bipartisan opportunity to strengthen Maine\u2019s democracy \u2014 Portland Press Herald<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n