The Maine Monitor Radio Hour

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Maine’s indigent defense crisis.

Symposium co-hosted by The Maine Monitor and the Maine Indigent Defense Center, recorded by the University of Maine at Augusta events team.

Guests:
Josh Keefe, government accountability reporter.
Robert Ruffner, director of the Maine Indigent Defense Center.
Ron Schneider, the general counsel and vice president of legal affairs at the University of New England.
Tina Nadeau, executive director of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/indigent-defense-symposium-discussions/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: In this episode, join Monitor environmental reporter Emmett Gartner as he talks about his recent series on dams in Maine and how they will fare in a changing climate.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/divided-on-dams/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: A Maine Monitor/Center for Public Integrity analysis of thousands of inspection records found years of safety violations at child care providers across the state. Summer fellow Alexa Foust describes the work that went into reporting the story.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/childcare-providers-violations/
themainemonitor.org/childcare-methodology/
themainemonitor.org/child-care-investigation/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Housing, affordable housing, local resistance.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-housing/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Substance use disorder, opioid crisis, recovery homes, addiction treatment approaches, Wabanaki Nations.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/wabanaki-addiction-treatment/
themainemonitor.org/safe-harbor-recovery/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.  

Kate Cough, editor at The Maine Monitor joins us this month to talk about her new series on salt water marshes in Maine.   We talk about what inspired the series, what she found in her investigation, and how it builds on her earlier series  The Unstoppable Ocean  

Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise – The first piece in the series

The Unstoppable Ocean series  

Other work by Kate Cough

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.  

Deputy Editor Stephanie McFeeters was joined today by reporters Josh Keefe and Rose Lundy for a discussion of their recent work, including the articles linked below (in the FMI section).