Community Voices For Change

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired July 6, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. This installment is an interview of Ethan Strimling who is a former mayor of Portland, Maine.  He talked about the recent primary election in Maine and how he failed to recognize that the three progressive candidates who were running f...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired June 22, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The program is an interview with former Portland  Mayor Ethan Strimling who is an opinion columnist at The Maine Beacon.   The show focused on a recent piece: "A Tenant Bill of Rights" which was published in May 2026.  Ethan talked ab...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired June 15, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The Program is an interview with Gia Drew, Executive Director of Equality Maine who talked about ongoing attacks against LGBTQ Youth, particularly transgender students in Maine.   Even  though Maine has a history of supporting LGBTQ r...

Producer & Host: Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Shenna Bellows, Maine's Secretary of State who talked about the ongoing struggle with the Trump Administration over its request  for Maine's sensitive Voter Data and why the request has been denied. She is now engaged in another fight with the Trump  administration over her refusal to hand out covert license  plates to ICE a...

The program is an interview of Maine Senator Henry Ingwerson who chairs the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee. He talked about several bills he sponsored that are now law.  LD1728 improves affordability, stability and access in the Child Care Program. It limits the amount families pay for childcare.  He also talked  about his work on the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Commi...

The show is an interview of Bradley Davis and Selene Geigester.  They are members of  the Portland, Maine Tenants Union (PTU).   Bradley is a founding and steering committee member.  He gained local prominence after becoming the first tenant to win a retaliation and overcharged rent settlement under Portland's rent control ordinance,   Selene has been actively involved in the auditing effort to re...

The podcast is an interview of Dr. Henk Goorhues who is a member of the Board of Directors of the Maine Medical Association and the Executive Committee and Grayson Lookner, who is a member of the Maine House of Representatives who lives in Portland and represents the 113th House District and serves on the Criminal justice and Housing Committees.  The discussion first focused on why there is a need...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired May 11, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The program is an interview of Bruce King, the Executive Director of Maine Boys to Men.  Bruce first talked about the problems that boys encounter as they grow up to be men.  Boys are often pressured to conform to traditional masculine...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired April 27, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The program is an interview of Andrea Steward who is a Policy Analyst at Maine Equal Justice (MEJ).  She talked about the Eviction Prevention Pilot program which was first launched in 2024. The $18 million provided assistance to 1,28...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired April 20, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD The podcast  is an interview with Francis Eanes who is the executive director of the Maine Labor Climate Council.   He talked about the Council which is a growing coalition of public and private sector labor unions that are working to...

The podcast  is an interview of  Marina Schauffler who is a journalist and author of Inescapable: Facing Up to Forever Chemicals which was recently published by John Hopkins University Press.   The book is a schatting indictment of American corporations that have jeopardized public health through the wide spread use of PFAS which are forever present chemicals not only in the United States  but all...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired April 13, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Melisa Valiant who is the Communication Director at Beyond Plastic, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. She talked about a new book, The Problem With Plastic that Judith Enck, t...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired March 30, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Ryan Tipping who is the Director of Policy and Strategy at the Maine Center for Economic Policy.  Ryan is responsible for building and the coordination of MECEP's participation  in a statewide effort pa...

The podcast is an interview with Robyn Merrill who is the executive director of Maine Equal Justice (MEJ).   Robyn talked about a major program that her agency has developed over the past several years.  The Hope Project  (Higher Opportunity for Pathways to Employment) is a higher education and training program for low income parents with children.  HOPE  enacted by the Maine Legislature in 2018 h...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired March 16, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host :  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Joseph van der Naald and Kevin Van Meter who are the authors of a recent report which was just published - The State of the Unions: Organized Labor in Maine 2020-2024.  The report is an analysis of the...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired March 9, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast for  March 9,  2026 is an interview of Sarah Alexander, the Executive Director of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association.  She talked about how Maine Farmers have encountered financial strain resulting from th...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired March 2, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The show Linda Deane who is the President of the Western  Maine Labor Council and two other union members  who were involved in the 1987-1988 International Paper Strike in Jay,Maine which  was a bitter 16 month labor dispute involving...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired February 23, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast for February 23, 2026 is an interview of Destie Hoffman Sprague who is the Executive Director of the Maine's Women Lobby.  The show focused  on a referendum question that will be on the Maine ballot this coming fall wh...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired February 16, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview with Shenna Bellows, the Maine Secretary of State, who has been an outstanding champion of voter rights in Maine, and over the years has helped prevent efforts to reduce the rights of voters in the stat...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired February 9, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast for February 9  is a conversation with Professor Anthony Walton who is the author of several books including a collection of essays titled -  The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning With His Life...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired February 2, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. This week's podcast is an interview of Senator Mike Tipping  who is serving his second term in the Maine Legislature representing District 8  which includes a number of communities, township, plantations and  Penobscot Indian Islan...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired January 26, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Representative Lori Gramlich who is serving her fourth term in the Maine House of Representatives.  She is also the Assistant House Majority Leader and previously served as the chair of the Legislatur...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired January 19, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Afroze N. Shaikh who is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Texas in Austin.  She talked about  a recent article that sh...

Community Voices for Change - 30 mins - First Aired January 12, 2026 WMPG-FM. Univ of So. Maine - Weekly - Mondays - 1:00 PM Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of James Myall, a lead policy analyst at the Maine Center for Economic Policy, He recently issued a new report - "State of Working Maine 2025: Strengthening Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities and...

Producer & Host:  Richard Rudolph, PhD. The podcast is an interview of Ira Helfand who is the past president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.  He is also a member of the international steering group for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  Ira talked about why it is past time to pursue a verifiable agreement among nuclear armed states to eli...