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Guest Producer/Host: Amy Browne, filling in this month for Peg Cruikshank
A discussion of the new book, Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life just released by Rutgers University Press, with the author, Dr. Ellyn Lem. All About Aging founder and host Peg Cruikshank wrote the forward for the book. Peg was unable to join us as planned, but will be returning to her host role soon.
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Producer/Host: Amy Browne
It’s the 3rd Tuesday of the month, so it’s once again time for our Elections 2020 edition of Maine Currents, with regular guests, Professor Amy Fried, Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Maine, and former State Representative Ralph Chapman
Ann Luther, board member for the League of Women Voters of Maine, and host of the Democracy Forum here on WERU is with us again today, along with Will Hayward, Advocacy Program Coordinator for the League of Women Voters, for a discussion of election safety issues, the current status of ranked choice voting, and more!
Taped via Zoom on Monday, 9/14/20
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 and Maine Currents, she 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 the First Place 2017 Radio News Award from the Maine Association of Broadcasters.
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Producers: Hazel Stark & Joe Horn
Host: Hazel Stark
With the encroachment of winter and being cold blooded, all of our amphibians get a bit creative with how they make it through the cold season. Toads get digging. Starting roughly in September, they will back themselves into the soil and use their powerful hind legs to excavate a burrow.
Photos, a full transcript, references, contact information, and more available at thenatureofphenology.wordpress.com.
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