‘Incremental’ progress: Maine’s effort to address lead poisoning was gaining momentum before COVID-19
Rose Lundy, Maine Monitor Sat, 06/12/2021 - 10:45am
More than 313,000 units in the state were built before 1978 and may have chipping lead paint, like this home in Lewiston. (Photo by Hannah Rafkin/Maine Monitor)
Lewiston resident Hibo Omer reads the hazard warning about lead paint posted on a Maple Street home in Lewiston. (Photo by Hannah Rafkin/Maine Monitor)
Mahdi Irobe said he paid $1,500 in taxes last year on a home that has been empty since it was declared a lead hazard more than a year ago. (Photo by Hannah Rafkin/Maine Monitor)
Jennifer walked into her college radio station as a 17-year-old freshman and never looked back. Even though she was terrified of the microphone back then and spoke into it as little as possible she loved the studio, the atmosphere and, most of all, the people who work in broadcasting. She was hooked. Decades later, she’s back behind the radio microphone hosting Maine Public Radio’s flagship talk program, Maine Calling. She’s not afraid of the mic anymore, but still loves the bright, eclectic people she gets to work with every day.
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Thirty years after Bates College decided to devote Martin Luther King Jr. Day to issues of racial justice instead of its ordinary class schedule, it held what its president called the college’s “first-ever, and hopefully last, fully remote” celebration to reach students scattered across the world by a raging pandemic.
President Clayton Spencer kicked off a daylong series of speeches, seminars, debates, podcasts, dances and more Monday with a call for the college community “to reflect consciously and intensively on what we owe our students and what we owe the world.”
With classes not set to resume until next month, Bates students and faculty relied on Zoom to hear historian and activist Angela Davis offer her thoughts on a range of issues to begin a day chock full of calls to action.