Maine Currents 8/17/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by: Matt Murphy

Grab a cold drink and a comfortable seat – we’ve got another hour of great local storytelling for you this week! First you’ll hear 2 stories that were told at our Maine Summertime stories event at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport last month by local storytellers Naomi Graychase and Amy Roeder. In the 2nd half of the show Roger Sprague – a Belfast resident who was born in that town in 1929 will share some memories and reflect on some of the changes he’s seen over the years.
We start at the Alamo Theatre.

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Maine Currents 8/10/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Today our multipartisan panel of guests returns to Maine Currents. We’ve been meeting once or twice a month since last spring to talk about the upcoming elections and some of the issues that will be on the ballot here in Maine in November. This is the first time we’ve met since the Republican, Democratic and Green Party conventions, so we start off by checking in for everyone’s reactions.

Guests:
Betsy Garrold – Supporter of Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party
Ken Gleason – Hillary Clinton supporter
Dave Gulya – Donald Trump supporter
Renee Trust – Libertarian / undecided re nominee Gary Johnson
Tim Wilson- Bernie Sanders supporter

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Maine Currents 8/3/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Audio recorded by Matt Murphy

Some of the stories from the “Maine Summertime Stories” event held at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport last week, cosponsored by WERU-FM, Wednesdays on Main and Northeast Historic Films/Alamo Theatre. Local storytellers featured today: Arielle Greenberg, Jonathan Fulford, Nolan Ellsworth, Sandra Dillon and Cara Oleksyk. Amy Browne emceed. (Part 2 will air on 8/17/16)

www.oldfilm.org/content/alamo-theatre
www.facebook.com/alamotheatre/?fref=ts
sites.google.com/site/bucksportswednesdayonmain/
www.facebook.com/bucksportwom?ref=hl

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Maine Currents 7/13/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

The latest edition of our multipartisan political roundtable discussions of the upcoming elections, with a focus today on Question 5 on Maine’s ballot this fall, a citizen’s initiative that reads: “Do you want to allow voters to rank their choices of candidates in elections for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative, and to have ballots counted at the state level in multiple rounds in which last-place candidates are eliminated until a candidate wins by majority?”.

Guests: Area residents Betsy Garrold (Green Party supporter), Dave Gulya (Trump supporter), Renee Trust (Republican-leaning Libertarian), Steve Godsoe (Clinton supporter) and Tim Wilson (Bernie Sanders supporter) — and (by phone) former State Senator Dick Woodbury, one of the promoters of the ranked choice voting question.

FMI:
maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/
www.lwvme.org/RCV.html
www.fairvote.org/rcv#how_rcv_works
ballotpedia.org/Maine_Ranked_Choice_Voting_Initiative,_Question_5_(2016)

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Maine Currents 7/6/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Candidate scandals and lies- it’s hard to keep up, but today we do some fact checking following Trump’s rally in Bangor last week, his recent controversial tweets and the FBI’s findings re Hillary Clinton’s email servers. Features audio clips from the FBI press conference and Trump’s rally. Guest commentator, cultural critic and former Ism Prism host Valentine King gives us his take.

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Maine Currents 6/22/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Today we continue with our ongoing series of multi-partisan roundtable discussions / call-in shows re the upcoming presidential elections. Today’s guests represent a range of political backgrounds, but we are committed to keeping this discussion civil, keeping in mind that no matter who becomes president, we will all still be neighbors.

Guests:
Renee Trust- Libertarian-leaning Republican
Tim Wilson- Bernie Sanders supporter
Steve Godsoe- Hillary Clinton supporter
Dave Gulya- Donald Trump supporter
David Bright- Green-leaning Bernie Sanders supporter (filling in for Green Party rep Betsy Garrold)

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Maine Currents 6/15/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: John Greenman

Local communities respond to the recent mass shooting in Orlando. We bring you to vigils held this week in Bangor and Belfast, Maine and then we talk with long time activist and former “Ism Prism” host Valentine King and open the phone lines for your calls. Valentine King is a cultural maven and independent thinker who has been based in Sommesville, Maine for the past 8 years. Originally from Philadelphia, he was active in the independent arts and queer cultural movement in the 1980s, and was part of the movement fighting for recognition of AIDS as a national health crisis at that time. For many years, he was a youth development worker at the Youth Health Empowerment Project, an agency devoted to promoting HIV prevention and youth leadership.

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