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The Maine Monitor Radio Hour | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME 99.9 Bangor (weru.org)

Episodes

  1. OCT 3

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 10/3/24

    Host: Kate Cough Guest: Josh Keefe josh@themainemonitor.org Production Assistance: Amy Browne The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. This month: Housing, affordable housing, local resistance. FMI: themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-housing/

    59 min

  2. SEP 5

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 9/5/24

    Host: Stephanie McFeeters Guest: Emily Bader, emily@themainemonitor.org Production Assistance: Amy Browne The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. This month: Substance use disorder, opioid crisis, recovery homes, addiction treatment approaches, Wabanaki Nations. FMI: themainemonitor.org/wabanaki-addiction-treatment/ themainemonitor.org/safe-harbor-recovery/

    58 min

  3. AUG 1

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 8/1/24

    Producer/host: Amy Browne Guest: Kate Cough, Editor at the Maine Monitor The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.   Kate Cough, editor at The Maine Monitor joins us this month to talk about her new series on salt water marshes in Maine.   We talk about what inspired the series, what she found in her investigation, and how it builds on her earlier series  The Unstoppable Ocean   Sinking in Saltwater: Maine’s coastal marshes at risk as sea levels rise – The first piece in the series The Unstoppable Ocean series   Other work by Kate Cough

    59 min

  4. JUL 4

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 7/4/24

    Producer/host: Amy Browne The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.   Deputy Editor Stephanie McFeeters was joined today by reporters Josh Keefe and Rose Lundy for a discussion of their recent work, including the articles linked below (in the FMI section). FMI: Maine Monitor: https://themainemonitor.org/  themainemonitor.org/wandering-residents/  themainemonitor.org/elopement-investigation-takeaways/   themainemonitor.org/maine-first-public-defenders-office-strategy/

    58 min

  5. JUN 6

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 6/6/24

    Producer/host: Amy Browne Other credits: Audio segment, Kate Cough interviewing Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, courtesy of The Maine Monitor   Emily Bader, Emmett Gartner and Josh Keefe, reporters for The Maine Monitor, join us to talk about the stories they have been working on (links below), including Emily Bader’s piece on how various agencies in the state are spending their share of opioid settlement funds, Emmett Gartner’s series on dam removals in Maine, and Josh Keefe’s series on the child protective system in Maine.  Also an excerpt from Editor Kate Cough’s recent interview with Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows FMI: themainemonitor.org Stories referred to in today’s program: themainemonitor.org/opioid-settlement-statewide-spending/  themainemonitor.org/dover-foxcroft-weighs-dam-removal/themainemonitor.org/yarmouth-dam-removals/themainemonitor.org/the-case-of-barni-a/themainemonitor.org/calls-for-child-welfare-transparency/

    58 min

  6. MAY 2

    The Maine Monitor Radio Hour 5/2/24: Debut!

    Producer/host: Amy Browne This month’s team of reporters and editors from The Maine Monitor:  Kate Cough, Rose Lundy and Stephanie McFeeters — and a cameo by Emily Bader (from a March interview that aired on Around Town)   They talk about some of the stories they’ve been working on, including issues at assisted living facilities in Maine, yellow flag laws, lack of attorneys for families whose children have been taken into DHHS custody, climate change and some of the issues facing the coast after the recent storms, pharmacy closures across the state.     (See links below)   This new program will air on the 1st Thursday of every month.   In June we’ll be talking about election season in Maine.  If you have questions or comments about primaries or elections related issues in the state, please email them to news@weru.org by 5/30 if you would like them to be possibly addressed on the June program.  Let us know your first name and where you’re from.   FMI: themainemonitor.org/ themainemonitor.org/how-we-investigated-maine–assisted-living-facilities/ themainemonitor.org/antipsychotics-usage-nursing-homes/ themainemonitor.org/lack-of-attorneys-child-removals/ themainemonitor.org/washington-county-behind-in-removing-weapons/ themainemonitor.org/seawall-road-washed-out/ themainemonitor.org/the-unstoppable-ocean/ themainemonitor.org/machias-dike-debate/ themainemonitor.org/portland-rising-sea-adapting/ themainemonitor.org/maine-pharmacy-closure-trend/

    56 min
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Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, ME 99.9 Bangor (weru.org)

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