Talk of the Towns 10/26/07

Producer/host: Ron Beard

Topic: Constructing Town Land Use Ordinances that Work

Guests: Tom Martin, Executive Director, Hancock County (Maine) Planning Commission; Noel Musson, CES Inc.; Dale Sprinkle, Chair, Planning Board, Surry, Maine

How does a town exercise its authority to guide land use decisions in Maine?  What is the legislative basis for towns to “plan”?  What is a land use ordinance and how does it affect the ways in which landowners use their land?

Call in show

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

RadioActive 10/25/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics:

Segment 1:

An interview with David Smith-Ferri, author of Battlefield without Borders, a volume of poetry published in January, 2007. David wrote two thirds of the poems while in Iraq under circumstances ranging from visiting with Iraqis in their homes and at hospitals to encounters at bomb sites.   Proceeds from the sale of the book go to the Iraq War Victims Fund  Smith-Ferri, along with Kathy Kelly (Voices in the Wilderness, Voices for Creative Non-Violence) will be in Maine Saturday night at an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Peace Action Maine.

FMI: www.battlefieldwithoutborders.org, www.peaceactionme.org

Segment 2: An update on CAFTA, particularly recent developments in Costa Rica

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

WERU Special: Child Soldiering 10/23/07

Producer/host: John Greenman

Topic: Child Soldiering

Speech  by Arthur Serota, Executive Director, UMECS (United Movement to End Child Soldiering)

Recorded Sept. 20th, 2007 at UMaine

Most everyone has heard that children are terrorized into becoming fighters in several places around the world.
It’s easy, though, to forget about something flabbergasting when it’s something that’s happening a long way from home.

What Arthur Serota has to say will make it hard to forget. As a matter of fact, we strongly advise parents to make sure only their mature adolescent children listen to his talk.

It’s a powerful and shocking presentation. One you won’t soon forget.

FMI:
United Movement to End Child Soldiering
www.endchildsoldiering.org/index.htm

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

RadioActive 10/18/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topic: Plum Creek announces another round of changes to their plans for massive development in the Moosehead Lake Region. Is this good news? Has anyone seen the “small print”? What do local environmentalists think? We talk with Cathy Johnson, Senior Staff Attorney and North Woods Project Coordinator of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), and Emily Posner and Jim Freeman of the Native Forest Network. Also, “The Ballad of Moosehead Lake” by David Dodson

FMI:

Natural Resources Council of Maine (and “Ballad of Moosehead Lake”): www.nrcm.org

Native Forest Network Maine office: 207-469-2552 or [email protected]

Land Use Regulatory Commission (LURC) materials on Plum Creek proposal:

www.maine.gov/doc/lurc/reference/resourceplans/moosehead.html

Podcast: Play in new window | Download