RadioActive 8/20/09

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Topics: Mainers working on healthcare reform and efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan.
Segment 1: “Maine Change that Works” Healthcare Reform Tour;
Guest: Greg Howard, Maine Change that Works Campaign, a project of SEIU (Service Employees Internation Union). FMI: [email protected];
Segment 2: “Rethink Afghanistan” film and discussion with an Afghanistan war veteran, sponsored by CODEPINK Maine and others, and other local efforts to stop the war. Guest: Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine, The film will be shown at the Colonial Theater in Belfast, 7p.m. on Thursday, August 27th, as well as other locations around the state. FMI: www.codepink4peace.org or 207-643-2356.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/20/09

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

These are the web sites mentioned in today¹s ³best of² sites program.

Best Free Reference Web Sites 2008 according to the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association:
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestfreewe
bsites/MarsBestFree2008.cfm

From the same organization, combined lists from 1999-2008:
www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/mars/marspubs/marsbestindex.
cfm

From the Telegraph, a UK newspaer:
www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3356874/The-101-most-useful-websites.h
tml

101 websites for writers:
writersdigest.com/article/101-websites-2009.

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Talk of the Towns 8/14/09

Producer/Host: Ron Beard
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Protecting Water and Wetlands with Shoreland Zoning
How did the first state shoreland zoning act coming into being? What led to the 2006 changes in state law? What do landowners need to know?
Guests: Tom Martin, Hancock County Planning Commission; Stephenie MacLagan, Maine Department of Environmental Protection
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