Producer/Host: Magnus Johnstone
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Movie: Under the Eightball
What is the “Eightball”? How does this relate to Lyme Disease? Does this contradict the Biological Weapons Convention agreements?
Guests: Timothy Grey, Breann Russell, Directors
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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 10/29/09
Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
GPS is a wonderful thing but like all technology, it can have many different uses. Today, let’s recall an issue that GPS makes possible. It isn’t on the front pages at the moment but that you can bet you will be hearing about again. As people drive less and use more fuel efficient cars, the proceeds from gas taxes shrink and legislators all over the country, including here in Maine, are now floating trial balloons on the very same new kind of tax we first discussed back in 2003 when this edition was first broadcast, a tax that could enable the state to track where you go and when.
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Healthy Options 10/28/09
Producer/Host: Cynthia Swan
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Vaccine Safety
What are the risks of vaccination? What are the ingredients in vaccines that have been linked to disease? What does the Canadian study reveal about the efficacy/effectiveness of the vaccines?
Guest: Neil Z. Miller (FMI: www.thinktwice.com)
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Ask W.A.M. 10/28/09
Producers/Hosts: Cherie Mason & Daryl DeJoy, Wildlife Alliance of Maine
Topic: Wildlife in Acadia National Park
FMI: http://www.wildlifealliancemaine.org/
Voices 10/27/09
Producer/Host: Cathy Melio
Topic: Cathy Melio’s monthly “Artist’s Voice” feature on Maine Contemporary Art, in conjunction with the Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Opportunities for artists to exhibit and sell their work: Call for Art of CMCA Juried Biennial Exhibition; Artists and the Environment (interview with artists in a show called “New Fangled Destiny”); Creative Economy–interview with Jean McGinnis of Maine Center for Creativity.
Guests: Jean McGinnis, Executive Director of non-profit Maine Center for Creativity; Dawn Nye, Professor of New Media at UMaine Farmington; Kate Randall, Professor of Mixed Media at UMaine Farmington
Outside the Box 10/27/09
Producer/Host: Larry Dansinger
Topic: Cleaning up Elections
WERU Forum: TABOR II, 10/26/09
Links for Parts 1 and 2 of WERU’s live broadcast community forum on TABOR II, held at the Alamo Theater in Bucksport, Maine, 10/26/09
Pro-TABOR panelists: Steve Bowen from Maine Heritage Policy Center (FMI: www.mainepolicy.org), and David Crocker from the Yes on 4 campaign (FMI: www.tabornow.com)
Anti-TABOR panelists: Garrett Martin from Maine Center for Economic Policy (FMI: www.mecep.org), and State Senator Joe Perry (District 32, Bangor and Hermon), from Citizens Unified for Maine’s Future (FMI: www.votenoontabor.org)
The forum also included an audience Q&A session
Moderator: Christine Covert
Executive Producer: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann
With assistance from: Matt Murphy, Sylvia Smith, Willie Marquart, Adam Lacher and Chris Stark.