WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Producer/Host: Rob McCall
Engineer: Denis Howard

“Winter’s Halfway Point”

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Issue: Environmental and Social Justice

Broadcast Time:4-4:30PM

Program Topic: Governor LePage’s Proposed Budget Cuts to Department of Health and Human Services programs, including MaineCare

Key Discussion Points:
a) We look at efforts to uncover the coordinated crackdown on Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country, through the US Conference of Mayors.
b) We look at restrictions to those on unemployment insurance, under the proposed bill LD 1725, “An Act to Strengthen the Unemployment Insurance Laws and Reduce Fraud”.
c) And, we check in on the status of the massive cuts to low income social service and healthcare programs, proposed by Governor LePage. 65,000 people could be cut from MaineCare The Appropriations Committee has already agreed to cut funding for “Wrap Around Maine”, which has helped struggling youth turn their lives around.

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, director of The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund : www.justiceonline.org , www.justiceonline.org/owsfoia
B) Jack McKay, director of Food and Medicine : www.foodandmedicine.org
C )Ana Hickes, Senior Policy Analyst at Maine Equal Justice Partners : www.mejp.org, www.reasonablesolutions.com

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No

Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Engineer: Meredith DeFrancesco

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Program Name:Dog Talk
Broadcast Date:Jan 26 20012
Broadcast Time: 10 am
Program Topic:Homeopathy for pets
Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) What is Homeopathy
b) How Homeopathy can help your pet
c) How to start — which ones to start with
Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Edee Howland Homepath Practitioner
B) Rod Sparkowich Coastal K9 Consulting

Call In Program: yes
Political Broadcast:
Host: Jon e Ford
Engineer: Joel Mann

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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Now that the SOPA and PROTECT-IP bills seem on temporary hold, it’s a good time to take a look at some webs sites that use today’s technologies to make our world more understandable. Here are several:

www.forvo.com – learn to pronounce words in over 280 lanuguages

www.loc.gov/jukebox – the Library of Congress’s National Jukebox site

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/the-oec-facts-about-the-language – a look at the most commonly used words in the English language.

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Issue: Alternative Local News

Broadcast Time: 4pm

Program Topic: 1. Legislature watch with the Maine Women’s Policy Center and Maine Women’s Lobby 2. “Occupy the Courts” protest in Bangor

Key Discussion Points:
a) The DHHS supplemental budget
b) “Occupy the Courts” on the 2nd anniversary of the “Citizens United” decision
c) Opposition to corporate personhood

Guests by name and affiliation:
Interview with Eliza Townsend, the Executive Director of the Maine Women’s Policy Center and the Maine Women’s Lobby
Speakers at the “Occupy the Courts” Rally: Starr Gilmartin, Rob Shetterly, Sunny Hughes

FMI: http://www.mainewomenspolicycenter.org www.movetoamend.org

Call In Program: No

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Amy Browne

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Issue: Childhood Development
Broadcast Time: 10-11 a.m.

Program Topic: Investing in young children

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) Why is early childhood investment an economic imperative for our state?
b) What are some examples of the payoff that investing in young children offers?
c) What is the content of the new report from the state Chamber of Commerce and the Maine Development Foundation, entitled “Making Maine Work: Investment in Young Children = Real Economic Development”?

Guest:
A) Ed Cervone, Senior Program Director of the Maine Development Foundation and co-chair of the Maine Children’s Growth Council

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No
Host: Cathy Jacobs
Engineer: Joel Mann

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Issue: An open-mic style call-in show, providing a forum for community members to share information, news and opinions.

Broadcast Time: 4pm

Program Topic: various

Key Discussion Points:
WERU public affairs program, community events, Liquified Propane Gas (LPG) & the facility proposed for Searsport, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Guests by name and affiliation: n/a (9 callers)

Call In Program: yes
Political Broadcast: no

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Man

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Broadcast Time: 10am
Program Topic: coal mining in southern West Virginia

Key Discussion Points:
a)Coal companies have assaulted the landscape of southern West Virginia with large-scale surface mining operations, blasting off the tops of mountains. As coal leaves the state, so does the money it generates, leaving poor communities with polluted wells, respiratory ailments, flash floods, and unnecessary miner deaths.
b) Junior Walk of Coal River Mountain Watch shares what he has seen over the past twenty years including citizen efforts to relocate an elementary school, which sits below an impoundment filled with toxic coal waste.
c)Writer Denise Giardina describes growing up in a coal camp, community solidarity with striking mine workers, and her own love of the mountains.

Guests by name and affiliation:
A)Junior Walk, outreach coordinator of Coal River Mountain Watch
B)Denise Giardina

FMI: www.crmw.net, www.denisegiardina.com

Call In Program: n
Political Broadcast:y
Host:Carolyn Coe

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