Maine's senior statesman voiced support for the agreement in a WCME News 9 interview during a stop at Patten Free Library in Bath. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Mitchell-uncut1.mp3"][/audio]...
[audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Webbert-on-Lawsuit.mp3"][/audio] Attorney David Webbert on the WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz on the filing of a federal lawsuit on behalf of a 16-year-old former Brunswick Junior High School student. The young man claims he was bullied, harassed and even sexually assaulted by male peers, while school...
The legislature's investigative committee has voted 12-0--a unanimous vote--to undertake a probe of Governor LePage's threat to cut off state funding to the Good Will Hinckley School for at-risk kids, if the school did not withdraw a job offer to Mark Eves, the Democratic speaker...
Independent state representative Jeff Evangelos of Friendship in Knox County is the leader of a five-member legislative coalition--the other four are Democrats--seeking an investigation that could lead to impeachment charges against Governor LePage. He talked with Jim Bleikamp on Monday's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Evangelos-impeachment.mp3"][/audio]...
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Ed Bonney is a former chair of the Freeport town council and a retired attorney, who winters in Arizona, where he's often observed the state's active gun culture on an up-close basis. Tuesday evening he told the Freeport council why he's opposed to the proposal...
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After a weekend statement from Defense Secretary Ash Carter that the Iraqi Army is failing to fight ISIS forces, Senator Angus King's view of the situation in a brief interview with WCME's Jim Bleikamp at today's Memorial Day observance at the Brunswick mall. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Senator-Angus-King-on-Iraq.mp3"][/audio]...
[audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ethel-Wilkerson-Clear-Cutting-in-Freeport.mp3"][/audio] Ethel Wilkerson is an environmental scientist, who also happens to be one of numerous residents of the Elm Street neighborhood in Freeport frustrated by the Maine Department of Transportation's clear-cutting of trees, which had served as a buffer against noise from nearby I-295. Ethel...
The town council chair talked at length with Jim Bleikamp about the budget-making process and reveals that she is more likely to support a larger tax increase than certain other councilors. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Brayman-5-14.mp3"][/audio]...