Talk of the Towns 10/13/17

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne

Community concerns and opportunities: Investing in children builds the future workforce, economy and community

Key Discussion Points:
What is the Maine Community Foundation, how do you promote philanthropy and promote community building?
What led to MCF’s choice for the November 14 summit on early childhood development and its connection to workforce development and communities?
What do we know about children’s development and how early experience affects the rest of their life and how they learn?
What do we know about the connection of early childhood development and Maine’s economy?
How do you help prepare the youngest to be more ready to learn as they progress into school settings?
What advice do you have for parents, hoping to help their children along life’s learning path?
What has convinced business leaders to focus on early childhood issues?
What are some of the problems bringing young adults into the workforce?

Guests:
Steve Rowe, President and CEO of Maine Community Foundation
Stephanie Eglinton, Senior Program Officer, Maine Community Foundat
Marsha Stone, Family Futures Downeast, Machias
Jim Clair, TriCast… leadership team for Maine Early Learning Investment Group

RadioActive 10/12/17

Producer: Meredith DeFrancesco

EPA Attempts Appeal of Clean Power Plan and Penobscot Nation’s First Ambassador on Indigenous Peoples Day

Key Discussion Points:
a) This week, Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, announced his intention to repeal an Obama climate action, called the Clean Power Plan, whose goal is to significantly cut back on climate change pollutants in the power industry, most notably carbon dioxide.
b) We look at the power of polluting industries and how their influence has increased exponentially under the Trump Administration.
c) We also speak with the Penobscot Nation’s first tribal Ambassador, Maulian Dana, about her new position and about the recent growth of Maine towns observing Indigenous Peoples Day, instead of, or in conjunction with, “Columbus Day”.

Guest:
David Doniger, Director of the Climate and Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council
www.nrdc.org/experts/david-doniger/trumps-dirty-power-plan-another-repeal-replace-scam
Maulian Dana, Penobscot Nation Ambassador

This program was produced in partnership with the Sunlight Media Collective.

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/12/17

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Free Speech Week is October 16-22, a good opportunity for us to reflect on what we think about free speech in this country in the age of the Web. Does the Internet change everything and requires a new approach the free speech ideas of the Founders to deal with things like “hate speech”? Let’s think about it…