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Like a Boss with Esi Seng, CEO of Tate’s Bakeshop
March 07, 2024 20:56 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBOn Wednesday, March 6, Portland Press Herald CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto interviewed Tate’s Bakeshop CEO, Esi Seng at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University. About Esi Seng Esi Seng is a proven, inspirational global leader with more than two decades of accelerating business growth and building high-performing CPG businesses and teams across the globe including Switzerland, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil and the United States. Currently she is the Chief Executive Offic...
Maine Voices Live with Chef Sam Hayward
February 28, 2024 22:04 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBPortland Press Herald food editor Peggy Grodinsky sat down for a conversation with chef Sam Hayward about his career during a live event on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Award-winning chef Sam Hayward co-founded Fore Street restaurant in Portland in 1996, making fresh produce and farmer relationships his top priority. Hayward previously served on MOFGA’s board of directors for over a decade and has worked closely with Maine farmers, foragers and fisherpeople for over 30 years. As many more restaurate...
Maine Voices Live with Sportscaster Dale Arnold
January 25, 2024 16:29 - 1 hour - 84 MBDale Everett Arnold was a New England sportscaster who hosted the Boston Bruins broadcasts on NESN and co-hosted talk radio shows on WEEI until his retirement from radio in March of 2021. He was the Bruins’ play-by-play announcer on NESN and has called Boston College Eagles football. He is the only person to have done play-by-play broadcasts for all five of the Boston area’s major professional sports franchises. A Bowdoin College alumnus, Arnold began calling games for the school teams whi...
Maine Voices Live with Author Paul Doiron
November 28, 2023 21:16 - 56 minutes - 77.9 MBPaul Doiron is the best-selling author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels set in the Maine woods. His first book, The Poacher’s Son, won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award and was nominated for an Edgar for Best First Novel. His second, Trespasser, won the 2012 Maine Literary Award. His novelette “Rabid” was a finalist for the 2019 Edgar in the Best Short Story category. Paul’s twelfth book, Dead by Dawn won the New England Society’s 2022 Book Award for Fiction, as well as...
Maine Voices Live with Matthew Delamater
November 08, 2023 21:36 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBMatthew grew up in the rural lakes region of Western Maine and now resides in Bridgton with his wife Emily and two young kiddos, daughter Rowan (6) and son Leo (3). Matt has played many roles in his life, Banker, Actor, Photographer and his recent favorite- Dad. Matthew’s film credits include the George Clooney-directed drama “The Tender Bar,” the comedy “Daddy’s Home 2” starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and the Maine-made movies “Hangdog” and “Downeast.” He was also in the Maine-se...
Maine Voices Live - Spose (Ryan Peters)
October 24, 2023 15:04 - 55 minutes - 76 MBPortland Press Herald staff writer Aimsel Ponti sat down with Spose to chat about his career during a live event on Tuesday, October 17 at One Longfellow Square. Ryan Peters was born in Portland and grew up in Wells, Maine. He began rapping in eighth grade. Peters graduated from Wells High School in 2004 then attended University of New Hampshire as an English major and later transferred to Suffolk University. By then his music career was taking off and he was offered a record deal when ...
Introducing In the Arena
October 11, 2023 18:54 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBWelcome to the first episode of "In the Arena." "In the Arena" is a podcast for Mainers interested in a deeper understanding of the political issues facing our state. Featuring former TV anchor/reporter Pat Callaghan, former Republican state Senator Phil Harriman and former Democratic Portland mayor Ethan Strimling This week, on the first episode of “In The Arena," Pat, Phil and Ethan discuss Maine Rep. Jared Golden’s Republican opponent Austin Theriault, the political implications of H...
Portland, Maine Mayoral Debate
October 04, 2023 20:11 - 1 hour - 132 MBPortland mayoral hopefuls debate homelessness, climate change Much of the debate between Pious Ali, Justin Costa, Mark Dion, Dylan Pugh and Andrew Zarro focused on the homeless encampments that the city has struggled to manage. Five candidates vying to become Portland’s next mayor sparred Tuesday, October 3 over the city’s top challenges, including homeless encampments, housing, immigration and climate change, during a 90-minute debated hosted by the Portland Press Herald and the Unive...
Maine Voices Live with Cindy Williams and Pat Callaghan
September 07, 2023 20:09 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBPortland Press Herald staff writer Ray Routhier sat down with Pat Callaghan and Cindy Williams to chat about their careers during a live event on Tuesday, August 22 at One Longfellow Square. About our guests Pat Callaghan began his broadcast journalism career in 1978 at New Hampshire Public Television. Beginning in 1979, he spent 43 years as a news anchor and reporter for NEWS CENTER Maine (WCSH6 in Portland and WLBZ2 in Bangor). Notable stories along the way included being on the air ...
Maine Voices Live: Author Chelsea Conaboy on her newest book, Mother Brain.
June 07, 2023 13:46 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBPortland Press Herald Food and Books Editor Peggy Grodinsky sat down with Chelsea Conaboy to chat about her newest book, that draws on the latest neuroscience and social psychology and weaves it together with new reporting to tell a powerful new narrative of parenthood. Conaboy talks about the myth of maternal instinct, how parenthood changes the brain for the long haul, and what it all means for our social policies, our understanding of caregiving broadly and our sense of ourselves during a...
Newsroom Live - No Way Home
June 01, 2023 16:22 - 1 hour - 125 MBRachel Ohm, the lead reporter covering Portland’s influx of asylum seekers for the Press Herald, led this Newsroom Live virtual event on Tuesday, May 30. Read the Press Herald series “Long Way Home” at pressherald.com/longwayhome. On the panel: Mufalo Chitam, Executive Director, Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition Kristen Dow, Director of Health & Human Services, City of Portland Ninette Irabaruta, Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, United Way of Southern Maine
RevUp Maine: Making the most of the Maine brand
April 24, 2023 20:07 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBMany Maine-based companies have footprints beyond the state border, even when “the Maine brand” is a big part of their corporate identities. How do these companies keep their cultural or physical roots in the state, especially if they’re adding locations outside of it? What tools and strategies are they using to elevate their brand and leverage their Maine ties? Join our panel conversation to start thinking of affinities that go beyond traditional markets. Business Editor Will Hall sat do...
Like a Boss with Jessica Estes, President of The Boulos Company
April 05, 2023 18:35 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBPresident of The Boulos Company, Jessica Estes sat down with Portland Press Herald CEO Lisa DeSisto for a conversation at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University on Tuesday, April 4. More information at pressherald.com
Like a Boss with Joe Purington, CEO of Central Maine Power
March 02, 2023 21:34 - 42 minutes - 58.8 MBPresident and CEO of Central Maine Power, Joe Purington sat down with Portland Press Herald CEO Lisa DeSisto for a conversation at The Roux Institute on Wednesday, March 1. About Joe Purington Joe Purington was appointed President and CEO of Central Maine Power (CMP) in September 2021. CMP serves approximately 646,000 electricity customers in an 11,000 square-mile service area in central and southern Maine. The appointment brings Purington home to Maine and to CMP where he began his care...
Maine Voices Live - Artist Ryan Adams
January 13, 2023 20:25 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBRyan Adams is a Portland Maine artist, born and raised, where he lives with his artist and designer wife and their two daughters. His background in traditional graffiti led him to creating large-scale mural work as well as hand lettered design and signage. His signature ‘gem’ style of work is a geometric breakdown of letterforms with shadows and highlights incorporated in order to create depth and movement. His work often including statements within them that addresses introspective or cultu...
Newsroom Live: Remembering the Ice Storm 25 years later
January 11, 2023 15:08 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBA panel of journalists from The Portland Press Herald, the Sun Journal, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel share memories of covering the epic Ice Storm of 1998, of the people they met and stories they found. Panelists include Judy Meyer, executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel, retired Press Herald columnist Bill Nemitz, Morning Sentinel reporter and columnist Amy Calder and Press Herald photographer Greg Rec. Press Herald staff writer Kelle...
Maine Voices Live with Morgan Talty
December 27, 2022 16:00 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBPortland Press Herald staff writer Eric Russell talks with Morgan Talty about his new book, Night of the Living Rez during a virtual conversation on Tuesday, December 6. Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation where he grew up. He is the author of the story collection Night of the Living Rez from Tin House Books, and his work has appeared in Granta, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative Magazine, LitHub, and elsewhere.
The Business Series: Is social media worth it?
December 20, 2022 20:02 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBShould social media even be in your advertising budget in 2023? From navigating targeting capabilities to tracking brand safety on turbulent platforms, it takes insight to design an effective strategy. Join moderator Carol Coultas and social media experts Dan Reed of SCORE, Izzy Siedman of flyte new media and Nathan O’Leary of Mainely SEO to learn how to create a successful campaign that’s worth your time.
Maine Voices Live with Tara Jensen
November 03, 2022 17:14 - 58 minutes - 81 MBPortland Press Herald food writer Peggy Grodinsky talks with Tara Jensen about her new book, Flour Power. About Tara Tara Jensen is the author of A Baker’s Year and the just published Flour Power. She grew up in Naples, Maine, attended Lake Region High School and graduated from College of the Atlantic. Jensen has baked professionally for over 20 years, including at Red Hen Baking in Vermont; and Farm & Sparrow and Carolina Ground, both in North Carolina. She also ran her own tiny, wood-fi...
Like a Boss with Jenn Lever President of Baxter Brewing
October 21, 2022 18:45 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MBPresident of Baxter Brewing, Jenn Lever joined Portland Press Herald CEO Lisa DeSisto for a conversation at The Roux Institute. Jenn is an Auburn, Maine native who graduated from Edward Little High School in 2004, and then attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, earning a BA in Economics and Sociology. In 2008, Lever ignited her career in the Food & Beverage Industry when she accepted a Warehouse Supervisor role with Pepsi Co. Her upward trajectory included successive leadership positi...
Newsroom Live: From A to B – Unpacking Portland’s Competing Referendum Questions on Short-Term Rentals
September 29, 2022 21:03 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBQuestion A, proposed by a group of short-term rental operators, seeks to limit corporate owners from registering short-term rentals. Question B, one of the questions proposed by the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, would reduce the number of short-term rentals. Both groups oppose the other’s proposal and a third group, Enough Is Enough, opposes both – and every other question on the ballot. How much of an effect do short-term rentals have on Portland’s rental market? Ho...
Maine Voices Live with columnist Bill Nemitz on the occasion of his retirement
May 06, 2022 15:48 - 1 hour - 119 MBVideo of this event is available here: https://www.pressherald.com/2022/04/30/maine-voices-live-with-bill-nemitz/ Bill Nemitz Bill Nemitz has worked as a journalist in Maine since 1977, when he became a reporter for the Morning Sentinel in Waterville after graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He moved to Portland in 1983, working first as a reporter for the Evening Express and later as a city editor and assistant managing editor/sports for the Portland Press Herald ...
Like a Boss with Andrew Mueller, CEO of MaineHealth
May 02, 2022 15:29 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBLike a Boss conversation between Lisa DeSisto, Publisher of the Portland Press Herald and CEO of Masthead Maine and Andrew Mueller, CEO of MaineHealth on Friday, April 29, 2022
Maine Voices Live with Brian Ross of Quarantine Kitchen
April 21, 2022 17:28 - 58 minutes - 80 MBBrian Ross–or Chef Brian, as he’s known around Hampden, where he lives–started the Facebook group Quarantine Kitchen in March 2020 so people could share pantry recipes during the lockdown phase of the pandemic. His network of foodie friends around Maine signed on as charter members. Two weeks later, the group had 8,000 members. Now with 11,000 members from 75 countries, Ross’s Quarantine Kitchen sustains itself with a steady supply of home cooking photos and kind words for each other’s effor...
Insider Tips on the Outdoors: Birding
April 12, 2022 14:24 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBFrom tips on how to identify native Maine species to the best locations in Maine to find the most exciting birds, Maine Audubon Naturalist and Press Herald nature columnist Doug Hitchcox shares his vast knowledge in a lively discussion with outdoors reporter Deirdre Fleming.
The Lobster Trap
December 14, 2021 19:32 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBAbout the partnership No news organization is more invested in the health of the Gulf of Maine and the region’s residents than the Portland Press Herald and The Boston Globe. So, as the gulf’s warming waters pose an increasingly existential threat to Maine’s signature industry, lobster, we joined forces to take a hard look at the climate crisis unfolding on our shores. We descended on the island of Vinalhaven, one of Maine’s busiest fishing villages, and turned loose reporters, photograp...
Newsroom Live with Meredith Goad
December 02, 2021 16:05 - 54 minutes - 75.6 MBAfter 33 years at the Portland Press Herald, reporter Meredith Goad is retiring and moving back to her childhood home of Tennessee. She talked with food editor Peggy Grodinsky about how the food and drinks scene in Portland, and Maine, has exploded over the 15 + years she has chronicled it, from Sam Hayward’s 2004 James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef Northeast (the first such award for Maine) to the growing farm-to-table movement, through the trials and tribulations for Maine’s restaur...
Newsroom Live with Bob Keyes talking about his book , ‘The Isolation Artist’
September 10, 2021 18:19 - 1 hour - 107 MBSince Robert Indiana’s death in 2018, Portland Press Herald arts reporter Bob Keyes has been covering the complicated saga surrounding the “LOVE” artist’s life and legacy. But there were more notes and conversations than what made it into print. During the pandemic, Bob spent much of his downtime putting the vast knowledge he’s amassed into his first book, “The Isolation Artist,” released Sept. 7.
Maine Voices Live with Cynthia McFadden
May 11, 2021 13:00 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBAn evening of live conversation with Cynthia McFadden, the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. She is a Lewiston native who graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Bowdoin College. McFadden was interviewed by Portland Press Herald reporter Kelley Bouchard.
Maine Voices Live - Sam Sifton
May 04, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBSam Sifton is the assistant managing editor of The New York Times, overseeing culture and lifestyle coverage. He is the founding editor of NYT Cooking and writes a food column for The New York Times Magazine. Based in New York City, Sifton has spent time in Maine every year of his life. His love of the state and its food heritage frequently shows up in his popular NYT Cooking email newsletter. Formerly the newspaper’s national news editor, culture editor and chief restaurant critic, Sifton i...
Maine Voices Live: Abdi Iftin
April 27, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBAbdi Nor Iftin is a reporter and the author of “Call Me American,” a memoir of his immigration to the United States. Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Iftin learned English by watching action movies. When U.S. Marines landed in the 1990s to get involved in the civil conflict, Iftin felt it was an arrival of real-life action heroes and grew fascinated with American culture. Sporting hip-hop clothes and dance moves, he became known as “Abdi American.” In 2006, as conflict again emerged in So...
Maine Voices Live: Daniel and Marcia Minter
April 20, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 79.7 MBDaniel and Marcia Minter are a Portland power couple in the arts, advertising, culture and history scenes. In 2019 they co-founded the Indigo Arts Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to the creative cultivation of artists of African descent. Daniel Minter is an internationally exhibited artist, visual storyteller and illustrator. His artwork reflects abiding themes of displacement and diaspora, ordinary and extraordinary blackness, spirituality in the Afro-Atlantic world, and the creation and...
Maine Voices Live: NASA Astronaut Jessica Meir
April 13, 2021 13:00 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBMeir lived in space for 205 days on the International Space Station. She conducted three spacewalks with crewmate Christina Koch of NASA, for a total of 21 hours and 44 minutes outside of the ISS. Meir has a Ph.D. in marine biology. She contributed to hundreds of experiments in biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development while onboard the orbiting laboratory. This interview was recorded in June 2020. Video is available at: https://youtu.be/swiDaA...
Maine Voices Live - Actor Timothy Simons
April 06, 2021 15:09 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBTimothy Simons grew up in Readfield and attended University of Maine in Orono, where he discovered his love of acting. He then worked in the Chicago theater scene before moving to Los Angeles. In just a few years, he landed his breakout role on HBO’s “Veep,” starring as the lovingly hated Jonah Ryan alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tony Hale. Now, Simons has amassed nearly two dozen film and television credits, including the limited series “Looking for Alaska” on Hulu, “The Hustle” opposite...
Like a Boss: One-on-one with Liz Cotter Schlax
November 03, 2020 19:30 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBLike A Boss is a live Q&A business event where you can hear insightful, first-hand accounts of the realities of running a business. Portland Press Herald CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto interviews local CEOs and business leaders for a behind the scenes look at their career paths, the ups and downs of running their businesses and the trends shaping them. About Liz Cotter Schlax Liz assumed leadership of United Way of Greater Portland in January 2015. As President & CEO, she guides United W...
2020 Insight: Our Sunday columnists on what will happen on Election Day
October 30, 2020 16:33 - 58 minutes - 81 MBA live panel discussion with our Sunday columnists – Greg Kesich, Bill Nemitz, Victoria Hugo-Vidal and Jim Fossel – for their views on what will happen on Election Day. Conversation starts at 7:00 p.m. Bill Nemitz is the award-winning metro columnist for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He has been writing about Maine news and Maine people for more than 40 years. Jim Fossel is a conservative activist and political observer who lives in Gardiner. He has been writing his column...
Making It Work: How Small Businesses Can Close the Books on 2020
October 23, 2020 20:50 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBCongrats to small businesses on making it this far. Now join us on Oct. 21 to learn what tax, accounting and operational issues you should consider before year’s end. How about a primer on the more than a dozen grants and programs that could help your business now? Or a checklist to assess your financial health, especially if you’re considering big moves like deciding whether to close temporarily? On the panel: Dan Gayer, Baker Newman Noyes Steve Veazey, SCORE Mark Delisle, Maine...
Like a Boss: One-on-one with Clayton Rose, President of Bowdoin College
October 08, 2020 18:22 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBLike A Boss is a live Q&A business event where you can hear insightful, first-hand accounts of the realities of running a business. Our CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto interviews local CEOs and business leaders for a behind the scenes look at their career paths, the ups and downs of running their businesses and the trends shaping them. About Clayton Rose Clayton S. Rose, who was inaugurated as Bowdoin’s fifteenth president on October 17, 2015, has consistently underscored the value and es...
Maine Voices Live - Bill Green
September 16, 2020 15:33 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBOver his 47 years in broadcasting, Bill Green became a household name in Maine, starting as a sportscaster in Bangor to hosting 19 seasons of his own Saturday magazine show, the last episode of which aired last fall, when he retired. This interview was online live on September 15, 2020.
The Maine Senatorial Debate
September 12, 2020 02:19 - 53 minutes - 73 MBRepublican Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Sara Gideon traded shots over health care, money in politics, judicial nominees and President Trump’s reelection campaign during a fast-paced first debate of Maine’s closely watched Senate race. Appearing together for the first time, alongside independents Lisa Savage and Max Linn, Collins and her well-funded opponent were more respectful than the barrage of negative advertising that is filling Maine’s television airwaves. Story: https://www.pr...
Like a Boss: Tony Shurman - President and CEO of Jasper Wyman & Son
February 28, 2020 18:35 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MBPortland Press Herald Publisher and CEO Lisa DeSisto interviews Tony Shurman at the Portland House of Music in Portland Maine on February 28, 2020. Shurman is President and CEO of Jasper Wyman & Son (“Wyman’s”) the second largest brand in the retail frozen fruit category in the U.S. with its most notable product being wild blueberries. Founded in 1874, Wyman’s is a family-owned business headquartered in Down East Maine with an ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship, corporate soci...
Maine Voices Live - Playwright John Cariani
January 16, 2020 21:24 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBJohn Cariani is an actor and a playwright from Presque Isle. His first play, “Almost, Maine,” which he describes as “a love letter to northern Maine,” premiered at Portland Stage in 2004 and opened off-Broadway in 2006. It has since become one of the most frequently produced plays in the United States and has been translated into nearly 20 languages. As an actor, he is best known for his “Law & Order” character, forensics tech Julian Beck, whom he played from 2002 to 2007 and frequently sh...
Maine Voices Live: Brother Arnold talks about the Shaker life, spiritual and otherwise
December 20, 2019 16:02 - 1 hour - 96.2 MBBrother Arnold, as he calls himself, spoke in Portland before a sold-out crowd Tuesday about his life as one of the last three living Shakers in the world. He lives at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, the sole remaining active Shaker community. Arnold Hadd, who joined the Shakers more than 40 years ago at just 21 years old, spoke with eloquence, expertise and humor as part of the Portland Press Herald’s MaineVoices Live series, which is held at One Longfellow Square. Bro...
Maine Voices Live - Meteorologist Keith Carson
November 13, 2019 22:05 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBNews Center Maine meteorologist Keith Carson talked Tuesday, October 29 about the places he traveled working for The Weather Channel, the problem with the term bomb cyclone and the reason he hasn’t pursued a career in comedy in front of a sold-out crowd at One Longfellow Square in Portland. Carson was interviewed on stage by Portland Press Herald reporter Gillian Graham in the latest installment of the newspaper’s event series, Maine Voices Live. Raised in central Massachusetts, Carson’s...
Business Breakfast, November 6, 2019 - HR Drives Culture
November 07, 2019 18:29 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBThis is a recording of the Portland Press Herald Business Breakfast, November 6, 2019 HR Drives Culture - creating an appealing place to work. HR used to just process payroll checks and handle employee benefits. But today, the ability to attract and retain workers is a priority for Maine businesses. And that has transformed HR into a driver of corporate culture. About the moderator: Hosted by Business editor Carol Coultas. Carol Coultas has been practicing journalism in Maine since the ...
Maine Voices Live - Cartoonist and author Lincoln Peirce
September 11, 2019 21:02 - 1 hour - 101 MBPortland Press Herald Director of Digital Nerd stuff Chad Gilley sits down for a chat with Lincoln Peirce, whose has been writing and drawing his "Big Nate" strip for more than 25 years. The comic strip appears in over 400 newspapers nationwide, including the Portland Press Herald. Video of the September 10, 2019 event is available at https://youtu.be/EgGAW88xIN0
Maine Voices Live with Pat Gallant-Charette
August 01, 2019 20:49 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBPat Gallant-Charette is a native of Maine, Westbrook resident, University of Southern Maine graduate, wife, mother, sister, grandmother, and retired nurse. In her spare time, 68-year-old Pat is a marathon swimmer. She started marathon swimming at the age of 58 and was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and Maine Sports Hall of Fame this year. She has set 9 world records in some of the most challenging marathon swims in the world. Pat is also the founder of t...
Maine Voices Live with Doug Hitchcox and Nicholas Lund
June 07, 2019 20:18 - 56 minutes - 78 MBCalling all birdwatchers for our next Maine Voices Live! Naturalist Doug Hitchcox and nature writer Nicholas Lund have advice on how to make the most of your spring, summer and fall birding season and discuss the background of Maine’s unusual number of bird-centric news events in the past year, from the brief controversy about which chickadee species should be our state bird to the saga of the wayward great black hawk in Deering Oaks. Doug Hitchcox is the Staff Naturalist for Maine Audubon...
Business Breakfast Forum: Getting a Bead on Broadband
May 22, 2019 18:27 - 58 minutes - 80 MBHigh-speed internet service is essential to Maine businesses, but access is often determined by where you live. Gov. Janet Mills pledged to make statewide broadband access a priority. What changes are needed? What are providers doing? What is working? This event was recorded live on May 22, 2019 at the Portland, Maine Public Library. Hosted by Business reporter J. Craig Anderson Panelists include: Tracy Scheckel, Otelco Peggy Schaffer, Director, ConnectME Authority Fletcher Kit...
Like a Boss - Michelle Hood - Northern Light Health
May 17, 2019 18:54 - 1 hour - 83 MBLike A Boss is a live Q&A business event where you can hear insightful, first-hand accounts of the realities of running a business. Our CEO and Publisher Lisa DeSisto interviews local CEOs and business leaders for a behind the scenes look at their career paths, the ups and downs of running their businesses and the trends shaping them. About Michelle Hood Michelle Hood is the president and CEO at Northern Light Health in Brewer, Maine. She came to Northern Light Health in 2006 after she s...