Envision Maine<\/a>, \u201cThe Independent Think Tank for Maine.\u201d \u00a0The primary interest of Envision Maine is to move Maine toward a more sustainable and vibrant economy.\u00a0 Caron estimates that over the next 3-6 months Envision Maine will really ramp up its activity and start leading Mainers toward a shared vision of our future.<\/p>\nIn 2010, Caron published \u201cReinventing Maine Government\u201d.\u00a0 This report compares Maine to the rest of the nation and looks at what Maine can do over the next 10 years to replace its inefficient government with new, more streamlined operations.<\/p>\n
Caron also is a contributing columnist to the Portland Press Herald.\u00a0 His interests include history, golf, gardening, canoeing, sailing and flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) was joined in the studio by the creator of Envsion Maine Alan Caron (right). Caron described himself as a lifelong learner and told the story of how he only completed two months of high school and then went on to be the first high school dropout admitted to a mid-career Master\u2019s degree program at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government. The two also discussed Envsion Maine’s goal and how Mainers need to develop a shared picture of the future. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}