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Friday, November 27, 202011/27/2020

Bruce Poliquin

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Today’s guest host, Aaron Chadbourne, welcomes former Congressman Bruce Poliquin to the show for his weekly segment

Friday, November 27, 202011/27/2020

Nick Murray

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Nick Murray, from the Maine Policy Institue, joins guest host Aaron Chadbourne

Thursday, November 26, 202011/26/2020

Katrina Smith

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Katrina Smith weighs in with guest host Aaron Chadbourne about her experience running for office

Thursday, November 26, 202011/26/2020

Karen Nason

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Karen Nason, owner of Karen’s Ghost Kitchen in Gorham calls in to guest host Aaron Chadbourne to discuss her new concept- a takeout and delivery-only restaurant featuring six different menus. The Ghost kitchen concept is sweeping the nation, and now it has come to Maine.

Thursday, November 26, 202011/26/2020

John Baldacci

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The former Governor joins guest host Aaron Chadbourne to talk about everything going on in politics today

Wednesday, November 25, 202011/25/2020

Jon Paradise

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Jon Paradise is the Vice President of Public Relations and Communications at Town & Country Federal Credit Union, and joins guest host Phil Harriman to warn about holiday scams

Wednesday, November 25, 202011/25/2020

Habitat For Humanity

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Godfrey Wood is a familiar name to many folks in southern Maine as the former President of the Portland Pirates and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He now serves as Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland serving all of Cumberland County.

Derrick Buckspan is the 2021 President of the Greater Portland Board of Realtors.

Those two organizations have joined forces to provide homes for residents in need. They join guest host Aaron Chadbourne to tell us more details about the good things they are doing in Cumberland County and Maine.

Wednesday, November 25, 202011/25/2020

Tech Talk

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Craig Peterson joins us once again for his weekly segment “Tech Talk.” You can catch his full show Saturday afternoons from 1 to 3.

Wednesday, November 25, 202011/25/2020

Sharyl Attkisson

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Sharyl Attkisson has been a working journalist for more than thirty years and is host of Sinclair’s Sunday morning TV program “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.” She has covered controversies under the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, emerging with a reputation, as the Washington Post recently put it, as a “persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story.” She is the recipient of five Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She has worked at CBS News, PBS, and CNN.

Sharyl joins guest host Aaron Chadbourne today to discuss her new book SLANTED: HOW THE NEWS MEDIA TAUGHT US TO LOVE CENSORSHIP AND HATE JOURNALISM

Wednesday, November 25, 202011/25/2020

Eye on Politics

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Jeremy Fisher and Eric Lusk join guest host Aaron Chadbourne for this week’s edition of “Eye on Politics”

Local Headlines

11 hours ago in Local

Maine Homes Prices Surge to Record Level for June

The number of home sold also increased over a year ago.

11 hours ago in Local

Shark Sighting Closes Down Reid State Park

The town advised residents and visitors to be safe and alert in the meantime.

14 hours ago in Local

Bellows, Shah formally announce plans to replace Platner in Senate race

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has announced her run for Senate, a day after Graham Platner suspended his campaign.

National Headlines

21 hours ago in National

El Nino powers up as forecasters predict historic strength and a rainier winter for the US South

An intensifying El Nino, nature's heat-releasing thermostat that spikes global temperatures, is heading to historically strong levels, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.

2 days ago in National

Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals

The writer E. Jean Carroll can collect $5.8 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Trump's lawyers immediately appealed to stop the payment.

2 days ago in National

Oil prices rise, and stocks fall worldwide after Trump says ceasefire with Iran is ‘over’

Oil prices are rising, and stock markets are falling worldwide Wednesday after President Donald Trump raised doubts about the temporary truce in the war with Iran.

2 days ago in National

Succession fight is already underway as calls mount for Platner to drop out of Maine Senate race

Democratic nominee Graham Platner hasn't resigned from the Maine U.S. Senate race following an allegation of sexual assault. But the succession battle to take his place was already underway Tuesday.