Author: Community Radio WERU FM

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/10/06

Host/Producer: Jim Campbell
Topic: Get a bit of spam in your electronic mailbox? No surprise – the great majority of email moving across the Internet actually is spam. The good news is that the amount of spam is actually decreasing a bit. The bad news is that what’s left is a lot more dangerous. But you know that, right? No? Maybe we’d better talk about this a bit.

Voices 08/09/06

Producer: Amy Browne
Topic: The 30th anniversary of the Belfast (Maine) Co-op, including interviews with one of the managers, one of the founders, and short comments from shoppers and workers at the store.

What is the history of the co-op?
How does one become a member?
How will the co-op do in the face of “big box” health food?

Boat Talk 08/08/06

Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Topics: Eastport Boat School, Maine Boats and Harbors show, Rawfaith update, cars on water
What’s happening at the Maine Boats and Harbors show next weekend?
Talk with the author of “The Main Beam” about Rockland built boats
Concerns about deepwater oil/gas drilling
Guest: Maine Senator Denis Damon
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RadioActive 08/03/06

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: Interviews with some of the people staffing and/or visiting some of the non-profit vendors tables at the 2006 WERU Full Circle Fair, including Earth First!, The Beehive Collective, CROPS (pesticide issues), Veterans for Peace and PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action)

Doing Business 08/03/06

Host: Jane E Haskell, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Topic: Selling the Food that You Make

How do you make sure that there is a market for the food that you make?

How do you find out if there are state regulatory and licensing requirements for home food businesses

What are the requirements?

Guests:

Alfred A. Bushway, Professor,Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition Hitchner Hall 109, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5736 Phone: (207) 581-1629, Email: bushway@maine.edu Beth Calder, PhD., Extension Food Science Specialist 5735 Hitchner Hall, Rm #232, Orono, ME 04469-5735 Phone: (207) 581-2791, Email: beth.calder@umit.maine.edu

C. Joyce Kleffner, Extension Educator, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Hancock County Office, 63 Boggy Brook Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605 Phone: 1-800-287-1479 (Maine) or 207-667-8212

Jim Picariello, President, Wise-Acre, Inc. 173 Varnumville RD, Brooksville ME 04617

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 08/03/06

Host: Jim Campbell

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently asked the question: “Was the 2004 election stolen?” No matter what your personal answer to that question, we all want our votes to count in future elections but the rollout of unproven and problematic electronic voting machine technology for the 2006 election makes a lot of pretty high end observers nervous about having every vote count. Listen here to understand why, and check out these recent reports on electronic voting machines for yourself: For the report of the National Academies of Science, go to: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11704.html. For the recommendations of the Association for Computing Machinery, go to: http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm. For the report of the Brennan Center for justice, go to: http://brennancenter.org/ and click on the aptly-named report on The Machinery of Democracy.

Voices 08/02/06

Producer: Amy Browne Topic: An interview with actress and audio artist Judith Sloan. She and Warren Lehrer are the creators of the award winning and critically acclaimed book and multimedia presentation, Crossing the BLVD:strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new america There will be a benefit performance for WERU and EarSay in Bucksport Maine at the Alamo Theatre on August 9 and 10, 2006 www.crossingtheblvd.org