Weekend Voices 9/15/07

Producer/host: Amy Browne

Contributors: Larry Stahlberg, Mike Joyce

Topics:

White House correspondent Helen Thomas’ keynote speech at the 2007 WERU Full Circle Fair in July drew an enthusiastic crowd. Today, by popular demand, we bring you that speech, along with excerpts from the question and answer session that followed; WERU volunteer Larry Stahlberg interviews populist radio commentator Jim Hightower who will be speaking in Maine at a benefit for the Maine Civil Liberties Union at the Camden Opera House on Sunday, September 16th at 3p.m.; and an editorial by Mike Joyce

FMI: Helen Thomas’ most recent book is Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public (2006, Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster)

Maine Civil Liberties Union (and more info about Hightower’s appearance): www.mclu.org or 207-774-5444

Jim Hightower can be heard on WERU-FM every weekday at 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. www.jimhightower.com

RadioActive 9/13/07

Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco

Topics:  An update on clean up efforts at the former Holtrachem site in Orrington, and in the nearby river, with Adam Goode of the Maine People’s Alliance,
and a report on a recent victory for those opposed to privitization of public services—Hillary Lister of MaineIndy Media and CAPIT (Citizens Against Pollution in Town) reports on the fight to prevent Casella from running Lewiston’s dump.  She also gives an update on solid waste disposal issues in other parts of the region.

FMI:  www.mainepeoplesalliance.org ,  www.maineindymedia.org

Writers Forum 9/13/07

Producer/host: Dr. Betty Duff and Joan Clemons

Guests:

Mary Duncan, author of Eyes of Garnet , a suspenseful tale of an 11 year old girl who grapples with her “second sight” (the Scottish term for having psychic abilities). Duncan is an artist who once owned a gallery in Blue Hill, Maine, a graphic designer and a florist (garnet@midmaine.com or www.eyesofgarnet.com)

Sanford Phippen, author of the novel Kitchen Boy; two books of short stories, The Police Know Everything and People Trying to Be Good; a book of essays, Cheap Gossip, and the editor of The Best Maine Stories and High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low: The Letters of Ruth Moore. He has appeared on Maine Public Television as the host of “RFD Maine”. A former columnist for Maine Times, he is a graduate of the University of Maine and Syracuse University (sanphip@aol.com)

Notes from the Electronic Cottage 9/13/07

Producer/host: Jim Campbell

Privacy and Facebook

Search engines and other Internet companies are beginning to offer us choices and tools to better protect our personal privacy online. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to be using them. A recent example from Facebook makes the point all too well. If we want to be in control of our cyber-lives, it is ultimately up to us to take the time to protect our personal privacy.