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 (weru.org)
Issue: Independent, Alternative Local News
Broadcast Time: 4pm
Program Topics: Segment 1: OccupyAIPAC; Segment 2: Legislation addressing loopholes re: legislator’s finances
Key Discussion Points:
a) AIPAC
b) OccupyAIPAC/CODEPINK
c) LD1806, An Act to Promote Transparency in Government
Guests by name and affiliation:
Lisa Savage, CODEPINK Maine. Program also features audio from today’s Veteran’s and Legal Affairs committee’s work session on LD1806
Issue: Alternative Local News
Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Amy Browne
Broadcast Time: 4pm
Program Topic: LD 1806, “An Act to Promote Transparency in Government”
Key Discussion Points:
a) As we reported last month, an investigation by Naomi Schalit and John Christie, Senior Reporters for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, revealed that a loophole in state law has allowed $235 million dollars to flow from the state to private organizations run by legislative leaders or the spouses of high-level state officials—without any requirement that it be reported to the public (www.pinetreewatchdog.org) This legislation would address that issue.
b) We listen in on the some of the public hearing
c) Former Representative Joseph Bruno responds to the media
Guests by name and affiliation: n/a (recorded testimony from the public hearing)
Call In Program: no