Baby Talk 1/25/12

Issue: Childhood Development
Broadcast Time: 10-11 a.m.

Program Topic: Investing in young children

Key Discussion Points (list at least 3):
a) Why is early childhood investment an economic imperative for our state?
b) What are some examples of the payoff that investing in young children offers?
c) What is the content of the new report from the state Chamber of Commerce and the Maine Development Foundation, entitled “Making Maine Work: Investment in Young Children = Real Economic Development”?

Guest:
A) Ed Cervone, Senior Program Director of the Maine Development Foundation and co-chair of the Maine Children’s Growth Council

Call In Program: No
Political Broadcast: No
Host: Cathy Jacobs
Engineer: Joel Mann

Mid-Coast Currents (Debut show) 11/19/10

Producer/Host: John Zavodny, Unity College
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann

Topic: Maine Street Hits The Maine Coast: Downtown Revitalization in Rockland and Belfast

Why is downtown revitalization important to Maine? What is the Main Street program? What initiatives have been undertaken in Belfast and Rockland?

Guests:
Roxanne Eflin, Program Director, Maine Downtown Center, Maine Development Foundation, www.mdf.org, Maine State Coordinator of the National Trust Main Street Center;
Larraine Brown, Project Coordinator, Our Town Belfast
Lorain Francis, Executive Director, Rockland Main Street
Mike Hurley, Belfast City Council

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