Around Town 1/13/25: Local News, Culture and Events

Host/Producer: Amy Browne

LD1- An Act to Increase Storm Preparedness for Maine’s Communities, Homes and Infrastructure
The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs committee will hold a public hearing on LD1 on Thursday starting at 10am

FMI:
Read LD1: www.legislature.maine.gov/backend/App/services/getDocument.aspx?documentId=108081
Committee, bill and public hearing information: legislature.maine.gov/committee/#Committees/AFA

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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