{"id":2387,"date":"2014-02-10T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2014-02-10T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:29:54","slug":"rich-livingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/rich-livingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 99: Maine State President of AARP Rich Livingston"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a099
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0February 8
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Rich Livingston
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Maine State President of AARP<\/a>, Rich Livingston is a retired business consultant.\u00a0 Early in Livingston\u2019s career he worked in Washington, DC, in the broadcasting industry.\u00a0 This work included consulting for numerous television and radio stations nationwide.\u00a0 That work evolved into his position as the marketing partner and chief operating officer of a $35-million advertising and public relations agency representing local, regional and national clients in a wide variety of industry categories.\u00a0 Livingston also worked as a strategic planning and communications consultant to a cross-section of New England-based ventures.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) discussed MaineCare with Maine State President of AARP Rich Livingston (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

In April 2013, Livingston was chosen to be President of AARP Maine, following a statewide search. \u00a0Livingston serves as a leader and spokesman for hundreds of volunteers and more than 230,000 AARP members in Maine.\u00a0 Livingston brings a diverse background to his new role, including experience in the fields of public affairs, public and media relations, legislative affairs, advocacy, philanthropic consultation and strategic planning. \u00a0He has served as member of numerous boards of directors and as a four-term city councilor in Auburn, where he was also a member of the Maine Municipal Association Legislative Policy Committee and a delegate to the National League of Cities.<\/p>\n

As AARP Maine\u2019s volunteer State President, Livingston works in collaboration with the State Director to further the Association\u2019s vision, mission and strategic priorities in the state and serves as Chair of the AARP Maine Executive Council. The Council, in partnership with the State Director and staff, provides strategic guidance and implements state plan activities in the areas of economic security, health and long-term care, and livable\/age-friendly communities.<\/p>\n

AARP, (or \u201cAmerican Association of Retired Persons\u201d as it used to be known), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, with a membership of more than 37 million. It is a membership organization for people age 50 and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio host Steve Woods and Maine State President of AARP Rich Livingston discussed legislative issues facing Maine’s aging demographic, such as social security and healthcare. The two also talked about how that the absence of access to wellness and preventative care raises healthcare costs and that without the expansion of MaineCare many Mainers will be affected. 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\/2387"}],"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=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}