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COW + Friday Topics

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Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

Caller Of The Week 4/28/23

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Jim from Portland is This weeks Caller Of The Week.

Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

Coffee and Politics 4/28/23

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Gregg Lagerquist from CBS-13 WGME, joins WGAN to discuss the latest in Maine and National Politics.  

Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

Wicked Sports Weekend 4/28

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We speak with John Tomase about All Things New England Sports on the newest feature of the WGAN Morning News-…

Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

Jake Posik | Maine Policy Institute

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Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

We Remember Jerry Springer

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Jerry Springer died yesterday at his home in Chicago after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 79. “The…

Friday, April 28, 202304/28/2023

Quincy Hentzel

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We speak with Quincy Hentzel, CEO Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce about upcoming Eggs & Issues coming up next week.

Thursday, April 27, 202304/27/2023

John Baldacci

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Former Governor & Congressman of Maine, John Baldacci gives us his Capital Insights on Local and National Politics.

Thursday, April 27, 202304/27/2023

Crisis In Housing

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Thursday, April 27, 202304/27/2023

GHRT Show | WVOM

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We check in with our radio brothers in Bangor…..George Hale & Ric Tyler Of WVOM

Local Headlines

10 hours ago in Local

Portland City Survey Shows Dissatisfaction with Affordability, Traffic Flow

The survey will help city staff understand community needs and provide guidance in decision-making.

10 hours ago in Local

Portland Police Investigating Possible Arson After Suspect Uses Bedsheets to Escape

Officers say crews located and extinguished a fire on a third-floor unit at 72 Bishop Street.

11 hours ago in Local

Brunswick Police Officer Charged with Assault

The officer was charged Monday in West Bath District Court.

National Headlines

13 hours ago in National, Trending

Storms cancel more US flights as TSA remains under pressure from partial government shutdown

Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month.

4 days ago in National, Trending

US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once

Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.

4 days ago in National

Key inflation gauge worsened in January, before Iran war lifted gas prices

An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.

4 days ago in National

Man in Michigan synagogue attack lost family members in Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, official says

A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.