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There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“.
Since 1...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 07:40
In honor of the upcoming Presidential race, The River Is Wide presents a melding of our favorite features. A Citizen's Guide, A Sixty Second Moral ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2016
- Length: 01:34
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:53
The then director of the Harvard Eating Disorders program gave a talk to a small group of eating disorder mental health providers in my work town. ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 07:33
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...
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- Added: Sep 11, 2016
- Length: 07:17
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When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...
- Added: Aug 14, 2016
- Length: 05:01
In my state, a few years ago a bright, articulate local woman ran for the state House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was ‘Fight Like A Gi...
- Added: Aug 01, 2016
- Length: 05:32
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
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
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 01:02
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...
- Added: Jul 16, 2016
- Length: 02:44:41
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
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
I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 01:21
In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 02:50
Over 100 people have died from heroin and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses this year, in Maine. Maine’s governor says he will call in the National Gua...
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 04:47
Recently, two Washington Post reporters looked at how human beings are valued in Donald Trump world, now, and as he turned the $200000 his father ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2015
- Length: 05:57
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
