Donate to WERU Today!Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Hungry Now screening and discussion at the Colonial Theatre in Belfast tonight, a benefit for Waldo County Bounty
“Get Them Out of the Attic! Caring for Family Photos and Papers with Archivist Jules Thomson, tonight at the Wilson Museum’s Hutchins Education Center on Perkins street in Castine, or go to tje museum’s calendar for the zoom link.
League of Women Voters of Maine alert: Starting on Wednesday, April 1, the Maine Supreme Court will begin reviewing oral arguments for LD 1666, our bill to expand Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) to gubernatorial and state legislative races in general elections. Oral arguments are scheduled for Wednesday, April 1 at 1:30 PM and will be livestreamed at this link
Maine AFL-CIO update on strike at Bath Iron Works
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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