Maine Politics - Big Talk

Big Talk : Portland's Needle Exchange

Mike Tipping — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:23:25 +0000

Big Talk host Suzanne Murphy speaks with Caroline Teschke, Zoe Freddecco, and Darla Treworgy about Portland's needle exchange program.

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Big Talk: Eliza Townsend

Mike Tipping — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:41:45 +0000

Suzanne Murphy and Alan Brewer talk with Eliza Townsend of the Maine Women's Lobby.

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Big Talk: The End of the War in Iraq

Mike Tipping — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:37:19 +0000

Big Talk host Suzanne Murphy speaks with Alex Cornell du Houx, a Maine State Representative who served as a Marine in Iraq.

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Big Talk: Clean Elections

Mike Tipping — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:37:51 +0000

Suzanne and Al discuss Maine's Clean Elections system with Andrew Bossie, executive director of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections.

Last week, Maine's Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee voted along party lines to strip out the matching funds provision of the Maine Clean Election Act without replacing it with one of several proposed alternative provisions, virtually gutting the act.

You can sign an MPA petition in favor of clean elections in Maine here.

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Big Talk: Election Aftermath

Mike Tipping — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:13:03 +0000

Big Talk host Al Brewer and I discuss the results of Tuesday's election, with a focus on the Portland mayoral race and Question One on the statewide ballot.

For the poll numbers we discuss, see these posts over at Down East.

For the full results of the mayoral race, including the IRV rounds, see this detailed spreadsheet courtesy of Jack Woods.

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Big Talk: Paul Goodman Changed My Life

Mike Tipping — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:55:56 +0000

This week on Big Talk, hosts Suzanne Murphy and Alan Brewer welcome Portland
local filmaker Jonathan Lee into the studio. His new movie "Paul Goodman
Changed my Life" has been getting good reviews and Lee talks aout why he
made the film.

http://www.paulgoodmanfilm.com/

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Big Talk: Occupy Maine

Mike Tipping — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:30:09 +0000

Here's a Big Talk show from two weeks ago that I'm just putting online now. Election season seems to have put me into quite the blogging debt. Let's see if I can climb out of it.

Big Talks hosts Suzanne Murphy and Al Brewer welcome into the WMPG studios members from Occupy Maine. Six protestors shared stories and reasoning behind why they are staking out in downtown Portland. We hear from Travis, Sarah, Jake, Holly, Shane and Jen.

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Big Talk - Remembering Mother Warren

Mike Tipping — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:12:51 +0000

The latest Big Talk show is a reairing of a documentary produced by the show called "Remembering Mother Warren," which chronicles the labor history of the S.D. Warren paper mill in Westbrook, one of the nation's oldest. The piece won a first place prize for public affairs programming from the Maine association of Broadcasters in 2003 and was sponsored by the Southern Maine Labor Council, the AFL-CIO and the Maine Humanities Council.

"Remembering Mother Warren" unearths the culture of an industrial community, the drama of life working for a once-great employer, and probes the meaning of workers' memories in the face of disruptive industrial change.

You'll hear stories from generations of mill workers and managers, including Shirley Lally, a 30-year veteran who sorted reams of paper by hand, Phil LaViolette, who recalls the struggles of Warren's Franco workers, and Howard Reiche, a former mill manager who describes the mill's paternalism and the favoritism encountered by workers prior to unionization. Other workers tell the history of the S.D. Warren "family," of their experiences in the mill dating back as far as the 1920s, of the extreme heat, dangerous equipment and deadly accidents, a forgotten 1916 strike, unionizing in the 1960s, and of the mill's recent decline. University of Maine historian Charles Scontras, and University of Southern Maine economist and labor historian Michael Hillard provide analysis of the mill's unique labor history.

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Big Talk: September 1 - Watch Your Language

Mike Tipping — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:46:58 +0000

The Watch Your Language word game.

Big Talk: Portland Mayoral Race

Mike Tipping — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:13:01 +0000

This week on Big Talk, hosts Suzanne Murphy and Al Brewer delve into the details and questions concerning Portland's upcoming and heavily contested mayoral race.

Who is running? How will having an elected mayor change the city of Portland? What duties will the new mayor have? What is ranked choice voting?

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