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Island: Please come live here - and make sure to bring the kids - Maine News - Bangor D... - 0 views

  • Every island in Maine is struggling to keep their schools vibrant and open. In the last 100 years, Maine went from supporting 300 year-round island communities to 15, according to Snyder.
  • The filmmaker splits her time between Washington, D.C. and the island. If it were up to her, she would be on Isle au Haut year-round, but her job requires her to sit in meetings with people to talk about her documentary projects. Despite this, Wurzburg said she can work remotely and does as often as possible.
  • The high-speed Internet that her island home is connected to helps a lot.
Bill Kuykendall

Together, We Can Strengthen Rural Maine - Maine Rural Partners - 0 views

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    Realizing Maine's Worth: Our Community Legacy
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About Transom - 0 views

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    Check out "Learning the Craft" - This hour features Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Radio Guy, Rob Rosenthal, talking with host Jay Allison about learning the craft of radio, the way they do it in Portland, Maine. Works include "Jaz, The Cleaning Woman" by Jamie York, "Johnny Comes Home" by Rupa Marya, "Sound of Democracy" by Elizabeth Chur, and "Cathy, 16, Mom" by Sarah Elzas.
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Diane Russell: Coming Out of the Black - 0 views

  • it turns out that some powerful Republicans in some agricultural states have supporters who have been poaching into the spectrum LightSquared owns and intends to use for a new nationwide broadband network.
  • the LightSquared initiative is a game changer. It builds on the satellite network already familiar to boaters and first responders to create a national wireless network with no dead zones -- if you have access to the American sky, you have access to your phone and the Internet.
  • While LightSquared now says it has fixed most of the GPS interference problems, including issues with "high precision" GPS devices , the GPS industry said "no way," and -- finding that perhaps the FCC was not buying the story -- spent millions to expand the debate into Congress and anywhere else it could find, like the Department of Defense.
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  • "GPS industry insiders and government end users manipulated the latest round of tests to generate biased results."
  • In Maine, we used Recovery Act funds to invest in the Three Ring Binder project that is bringing broadband to parts of the state that did not have it. But there are still places that need broadband for businesses to compete, their kids to learn and to bridge a very real digital divide.
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Blunt | Home - 0 views

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    Youth-produced radio in Portland, Maine.
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The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies - 0 views

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    Salt homepage
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