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Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
As women in this country grieve the lost opportunity to elect a woman President, the widespread sanctioning of Donald Trump’s sexploitation is ther...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 05:11
Child prodigies need the chance to find themselves- the moment they become ‘spellbound’ because they have found the field their gift has been looki...
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 07:04
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 02:40
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Monday, September 19, 2016.
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 08:19
Today The River Is Wide introduces a new specialty item : the two and a half minute Conspiracy Theory. We don’t want to ramble. We’ll keep it brief...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 03:14
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2016
- Length: 08:01
Host Kris Lotlikar reflects on recent current events and shares a portion of the podcast "This Week in Drugs". Produced by Shea Gunther.
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 54:13
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:09
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
We live in extremely violent times. Words can provoke aggression, insult and personal harm very quickly. Politicians spend much time trying to r...
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 04:26
I hope you’re in the mood for some numbers. Or at least I hope you’re not in the mood for a poem. In Maine, the daily poem we all could feast on fo...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 07:35
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
How do you get your news – and how do you think your news gets to you? The pathway of information flow involves layers of decisions that in many wa...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 35:48
So we now know that Apple has made the extraordinary contribution called ‘Enter the wrong password 10 times and all the data on your way-too-expens...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 05:07
One of the best mission statements I’ve read is the original NPR mission, which was written in 1969 by Bill Siemering. Bill is an amazing guy who, ...
Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 19:24
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, host Mike O’Toole chats with Rod Rakic, Co-founder of OpenAirplane – a company getting more planes in the air by raising standards...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 30:15
In this episode, host Mike O’Toole is joined by Kimberly Jung, Co-founder of Rumi Spice. They chat about the many hurdles the company has to get ov...
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 25:45
Executive Director, Keri Putnam and Director of Programing, Trever Groth have taken the time to elaborate on the issue of diversity in film in rela...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode presented by our friends at Craft Beer Cellar, host Mike O’Toole visits Tony Magee, founder and CEO of Lagunitas. They discuss how ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 39:03
Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler discusses working with other artists and his new recording Something of Life
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:04:10
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 31:16
Is it a store, an art gallery, or a magazine? According to founder Rachel Shechtman, Story is a little bit of all three. Based in the Chelsea neigh...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 26:43
Many unconventional brands are proving that you can succeed while managing around ideas that aren’t typically measurable. With the right leadership...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 14:42
