Tag: DHHS Supplemental Budget

RadioActive 2/9/12

Issue: Environmental and Social Justice
Broadcast Time:4-4:30PM

Program Topic: Maine Appropriations Committee Alternative Budget Cuts to Department of Health and Human Services programs, including MaineCare

Key Discussion Points:
a) The Appropriations Committee has approved decreasing eligibility for MaineCare coverage for adults with children down to 133% from 200% of the poverty level.
b) The new budget proposal would freeze MaineCare enrollment for childless adults. 16,000 Mainers on the waiting list will no longer be eligible.
c) Though the Appropriations Committee approved $120 million in cuts, instead of the $220 million in cuts LePage asked for, $80 million in proposed cuts ti the Department of Health and Human Services budget for 2013 are slated to be taken up later this month.

Guests:
A )Ana Hickes, Senior Policy Analyst at Maine Equal Justice Partners : www.mejp.org, www.reasonablesolutions.com
B) Cullen Ryan, executive director of Community Housing of Maine : www.chomhousing.org

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No

Host: Meredith DeFrancesco
Engineer: Meredith DeFrancesco

WERU News Report 1/25/12

Issue: Alternative Local News

Broadcast Time: 4pm

Program Topic: 1. Legislature watch with the Maine Women’s Policy Center and Maine Women’s Lobby 2. “Occupy the Courts” protest in Bangor

Key Discussion Points:
a) The DHHS supplemental budget
b) “Occupy the Courts” on the 2nd anniversary of the “Citizens United” decision
c) Opposition to corporate personhood

Guests by name and affiliation:
Interview with Eliza Townsend, the Executive Director of the Maine Women’s Policy Center and the Maine Women’s Lobby
Speakers at the “Occupy the Courts” Rally: Starr Gilmartin, Rob Shetterly, Sunny Hughes

FMI: http://www.mainewomenspolicycenter.org www.movetoamend.org

Call In Program: No

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Amy Browne

WERU News Report 1/10/12

Issue: Alternative Local News
Program Name: WERU News Report
Broadcast Date:1/10/12
Broadcast Time: 4pm

Program Topic: Maine Legislature Watch

Key Discussion Points:
a) Updates on the DHHS supplemental budget and other legislation being monitored by the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP)
b) Follow up re: the proposed renaming/restructuring of the Department of Environmental Protection and the recommendations of the LURC Reform Committee with Natural Resources Council of Maine
c) Audio from today’s work session discussion re: legislation to make the Governor’s “working paper” exempt from Freedom of Access requests

Guests by name and affiliation:
A) Dan Coyne, Legislative Director for Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) FMI: http://www.mecep.org/
B) Pete Didisheim, Senior Director of Advocacy for the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM). FMI: www.nrcm.org

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No

Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Amy Browne