WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Audio Archives

Producer/Host: Sarah O’Malley What is Fire?

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Studio Engineer: Amy Browne Issue: Community concerns and opportunities Program Topic: Maine Legislative Action: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Key Discussion Points : • Each guest provides background on themselves, what motivated them to serve in the Legislature, what committees they serve on… • What were the highlights of the first session of the 126th Legislature for you, coming primarily from your committee work? • Beyond work on bills you sponsored or those your committee took up, what were the main accomplishments of the 2013 session? • What were the main challenges for you and your legislative colleagues? • Talk about your approach to being a legislator… what is the balance, for you, in pursuing what your constituents are interested in, what makes sense to you as a citizen-policymaker, and how you are guided by your party? • What are the most effective ways for citizens to make their views known, both to you as individual legislators, and to the legislative leadership? • Looking ahead… what are the major issues/bills that your committee will be looking at in the upcoming session? • What are some of the other issues/challenges/opportunities that you expect to see in 2014? • What have you found to be the most satisfying part of your role as legislator and your hopes for the year ahead Guests: State Representative Brian Hubbell, Bar Harbor State Representative Walter Kumiega Deer State Representative Richard Malaby, Hancock

Producer/Host: Rob McCall Studio Engineer: Denis Howard “A Winter’s Tale”

Producer/Host: Jim Bahoosh Rims

Producer/Host: Meredith DeFrancesco Issue: Environmental and Social Justice Program Topic: Mining Bill at BEP; Divestment from Fossil Fuels Key Discussion Points: a) Today we discuss the ongoing moves to change Maine’s mining laws,which open the state up to metallic mining, without regard for environmental consequences or adequate industry clean up responsibilities. b)Tomorrow the state Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) is expected to approve a new set of rules, which would send it on the legislature. We also look at the movement to divest colleges and universities from the fossil fuel industry, and a bill in the state legislature which would similarly divest Maine Public Employees Retirement System. Guests: A) Beth Ahern, Maine Conservation Alliance; Maine Mining Watch http://www.maineminingwatch.org/ B)Sarah Linnekan, climate activist with 350 Maine

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell 1992 WERU interview with Noam Chomsky, conducted by Mark Baldwin

Producer/Host: Ellie O’Leary Engineer: Amy Browne Program Topic: the writing life Key Discussion Points: a) fictionalizing a real life event b) creating a memoir from a poem c) writing to examine or recover from a situation Guests: A) Meg Wilson www.megwilsonauthor.com B) Katherine Mayfield www.TheBoxofDaughter.com and www.katherine-mayfield.com

Producer/Host: Tim Hagney Soybean

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell Folks who use Netflix benefit from the suggestions that Netflix makes about other movies they might enjoy. But how does Netflix know? One way is by classifying movies into microgenres. And data brokers use the same sort of categorization techniques but they are using them on us, not on movies. The story is available in this Senate Committee Report from December, 2013. www.commerce.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=0d2b3642-6221-4888-a631-08f2f255b577

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Part 2 of 2 Individuals/groups that were in the news on WERU in 2013, look ahead to 2014. Today: Karen Marysdaughter of 350 Maine, Phil Caper of Maine AllCare, Diane Messer & Lynne Williams of Move to Amend and We The People, Lindsay Newland Bowker of Bowker Associates, Rachel Healy of ACLU of Maine

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Part 1 of 2 Individuals/groups that were in the news on WERU in 2013, look ahead to 2014. Today: Chris Buchanan of Stop the East-West Corridor, Sarah Bigney of the AFL-CIO, Ron Huber of Friends of Penobscot Bay, Ilze Petersons of the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, Judy Berk of the Natural Resources Council of Maine

Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger Bill Coperthwaite

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Engineer: Allison Watters

Producer/Host: Tim Hagney Suppression

Producer/Host: Jamie Wood Episode 8 takes us to Manchester, ME where we visit Lakeside Apple Orchards. Apple farming is a challenging world and farm owner Marilyn Meyerheyans tells us all about her experiences over 40 years of farming apples.