Democracy Forum 5/19/17

Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine    
Engineer: Amy Browne

Issue: Participatory Democracy

Program Topic: Free Trade: Winners and Losers in Maine

Key Discussion Points:

We’ll talk about international trade policy
How does it work?
Who sets the rules?
What does it mean for Maine?

Guest: Kate DeLutio, economist, applied researcher, and trade expert. www.45northresearch.com/about/

To learn more about this topic:
a) Did China Eat America’s Jobs, Freakonomics, January 25, 2017 freakonomics.com/podcast/china-eat-americas-jobs/
b) Maine History Online: Trade and Transport, from the Maine Historical Society. www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/885/page/1296/display
c) Maine Trade Assessment Report 2016, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, prepared for the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission. www.maine.gov/legis/opla/CTPC2016TradeAssessmentFinal.pdf
  

The all-volunteer team at the League of Women Voters – Downeast who plan and coordinate this series includes:
Starr Gilmartin
Maggie Harling
Linda Hoskins
Ann Luther
Maryann Ogonowski
Pam Person
Leah Taylor
Linda Washburn

FMI re League of Women Voters of Maine: www.lwvme.org

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 5/18/17

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Well, the mp3 file format passed away last week. The patent on the codec ran out and the patent holder is off to other things, and there are now more effective audio compression codecs around. Still, mp3 was revolutionary in its time so we dug in the archives to find this old edition that explains just how audio compression in general and mp3 compression in particular works. So long, old friend.

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Maine Currents 5/17/17

Producer/Host: John Greenman
Studio Engineer: Joel Matt & Matt Murphy

Update on Maine’s Cuban Connections

Program Topics: Embargo/Blockade and Guantanamo

Key Discussion Points:
Update on the effects of the decades-old embargo
The latest on the US presence in Guantanamo Bay

Guests:
Judy Robbins, “Let Cuba Live”
Dud Hendrick, Maine Veterans for Peace (just returned from Cuban conference on foreign military bases)


Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, every Wednesday at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org

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