 Friday February 5, 2010
12:30 pm: Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks
Coming up on the next Maine Watch, we take a look at three noteworthy bills making their way through the legislature. One would extend sick leave benefits to thousands of Maine employees who don't currently have them... another, would throw Maine's electoral votes to the presidential candidate with the most popular votes in the nation... and another would make a crime to ignore a seriously injured person. We'll discuss all three.
1:00pm: Speaking in Maine
Speaking in Maine takes us next to Portland to the Joshua Chamberlain Lecture Series. The speaker is the President of Maine Today Media, Richard Connor. His talk is entitled “Rumors of our Death are Greatly Exaggerated”. As publisher of the Portland and central Maine newspapers he is in a unique position to speak about the future of print media here in Maine, and takes questions from the audience.
Monday February 8, 2010
12:30 pm: Living Planet
Mexico gives Davos a taste of what to expect of its stewardship of climate talks later this year; Morocco's plans to modernize its port facilities pay scant regard to its coastline; Romania considers reopening a controversial gold processing plant 10 years on from a devastating cyanide spill; and the UN asks us to consider what we wear when it comes to saving species.
1:00 pm: America Abroad (cdnow)
The Carbon Conundrum – Confronting Climate Change
Even with an atmosphere of agreement that capping carbon is good for the planet, world leaders are still generating a lot of hot air arguing how to do it. And, the inconvenient truth is that this isn’t just an international political problem – the actual process of greening cars, cows, and coal-fired power plants will be even more exhausting than getting 190 countries to sign a treaty. This edition of America Abroad explores the issue – from the Peruvian rainforest where economic development is slashing a weapon in the war on warming, to the U.S. where businesses are struggling to scrub their smokestacks, and the carbon credit debate is heating up on Capitol Hill.
Tuesday February 9, 2010
12:30 pm: Inside Europe
A special hour taking you on a whirlwind tour of Europe's capital cities. Our journey will take you around the continent from the Baltic sea in the far north-east, to the Atlantic coast in the south-west. And we visit a corner of Old Europe in its most literal sense: a place that's still holding out against globalization!
1:00 pm: Commonwealth Club of California
The speaker is David Walker, CEO of Peter G. Peterson Foundation; Former Comptroller General of the U.S.; and author of “Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility” Walker will discuss a range of compelling ideas, including how to control spending, save Social Security, dramatically alter our health-care system, reform our tax system and re-engineer the base of the federal government – all taking into account the Obama administration’s efforts to-date to do the same.
Wednesday February 10, 2010
12:30 pm:Conversations with Maine
1:00pm: BBC’s Changing World
Can China Go Green?
A report from China on that nation's efforts to "go green." Despite negative publicity, the BBC finds strong evidence that China is effectively leap-frogging the older industrial societies of Europe and America, and instituting effective long-term environmental solutions, sustainable power and eco-design.
Thursday February 11, 2010
12:30 pm: Soundprint
On the night of April 14th 1865, in front of a thousand people at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. Shouting ‘Sic semper tyrannis’ – ‘thus always to tyrants’, Booth believed that he was striking down a tyrant as surely as Brutus struck down Julius Caesar. Twelve days later Booth himself was shot dead in a barn in Virginia. From the moment Booth shot Lincoln, conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination have flourished – and 140 years later, for both historians and ordinary people, they are still very much alive. Some believe Booth was the ring leader of a small group; others are convinced he was simply a pawn in a grand conspiracy plot. While still others believe it wasn’t really Booth who died in that Virginia barn. Jean Snedegar tries to unravel the truth – and a myriad of legends - about the assassination of a great American president.
1:00pm: Out of this World
Rocketing Ahead: The Effect of the US Space Program on OurLlives.
We take the Space Program and its history for granted. But it came to be through many twists and turns. These changes not only touched the Space Program, they helped shape American defense, K-12 education and America’s universities, as well as how the nation spends its science dollars today. |