Brunswick Town Councilor Jennifer Hicks is one of several elected officials who took part in Saturday's "Hands-Off" rally on the Brunswick Town Mall. At Monday evening's council meeting, she called it a "wonderful experience", says she's "incredibly concerned about what's going on in our country" and...
Marc with some perspective on the uproar over the "group chat' involving numerous Trump administration national security officials AND an editor of The Atlantic Magazine. And before that, a bit of pre-seasaon perspective on the Red Sox, given that Marc is a devout fan. If you missed...
Sally talked for the most part about her newly introduced bill proposing a study into how Maine can support the banking needs of the cannabis industry, which has been deprived of banking access by virtue of the fact that cannabis is still illegal under...
Andrew began a busy day on The Buzz--previewing a trip he'll be taking to Augusta this afternoon, where he will testify before a legislative committee in a pitch for a greater state subsidy for Tedford in Brunswick, and for the 40 other homeless shelters around...
On today's WCME Midcoast Morning Buzz, Brunswick Town Councilor David Watson, who also serves as commander of Brunswick American Legion Post 20, and Beatrice Elmore, a student researcher at Brunswick High school. Beatrice is also a member of an ongoing team looking into the involvement of...
Jackie joins us monthly on The Buzz and talked today about two hot-button issues: 1) Superior Court Judge Michaela Murphy's recent ruling that the state must soon begin to release people from jail if they have waited more than two weeks for a lawyer 2) An uptick...
After last summer's spill of toxic firefighting foam at Brunswick Landing, Brunswick State Representative Dan Ankeles has now seen two of his proposals clear a legsilative committee in Augusta--proposals aimed at avoiding any kind of repeat of the spill. The proposals would catalog, collect and destroy...
Ben Martens, with his fingers on the pulse of Maine's fishing industry, gave us an update today on a coastal institution in Maine suddenly in jeopardy. The federal government is discontinuing a $4.5 million grant program for Maine Sea Grant, one of the state’s major...
On Monday morning, we crammed more people--all of them champions--into our WCME studio at Fort Andross than ever before on the Midcoast Morning Buzz. This in the aftermath of their big win Friday evening over the Hampden Broncos to claim the state basketball championship in Class...
Jim Bleikamp here. I'm feeling good about the fact that even though many of us have staked out largely firm positions on at least two sides, and maybe more sides, of the difficult debate about transgender participation in girls sports, we are more and more likely...