Part 1: New England Made Giftware & Specialty Food Show will be held the weekend of March 17-19, 2018 in Portland, Maine for buyers only. By phone we have Rachel of Cinder + Salt, they do specialty screenprinting. Sarah Christie of Woodstock Cookie Co., Keith Pillsbury and Joe Weeks of Maine Hempworks and of Alexis Souders of Prospect Harbor Soap Co. all join us in studio to talk about some of their wonderful products.
Part 2: Rachel talks about the process of how she makes her screen printing designs and different items she has. Alexis explains some of the different products that Prospect Harbor Soap makes. Sarah explains how she started her granola bars. The boys of Maine Hempworks talks about their background and some of their wonderful body works products.
Part 3: The discussion continues on some of the wonderful products. The panel explains their background stories and the challenges they face as a small entrepreneur.
Part 4: The discussion this segment is about growing your business and starting out.
03-07-18 Ranked Choice Voting
Part 1: Ray is joined by State Rep. Wayne Parry. He wanted to discuss Ranked Choice Voting to hopefully inform our audience to how it will work. It is a very confusing situation. We took a question from caller Gordon Draper and from frequent caller Larry.
Part 2: They continue to try to make this all clear.
03-07-18 Department of Justice
Ray is really confused as to why the Department of Justice and the US Attorney General Jeff Sessions have not issue an arrest warrant for the Governor of California and the Mayor of Oakland. Gov. Jerry Brown has made California a sanctuary state and has warned any business that cooperates with ICE will have major consequences. The Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf issued a warning that there was going to be an immigrant roundup in advance.
03-07-18 Dee Dee’s Law
Ray and Dr. Michael Ciampi discuss what they call “Dee Dee’s Law” LD445. It is a large bill that has passed. It is “An Act To Encourage Maine Consumers To Comparison-shop for Certain Health Care Procedures and To Lower Health Care Costs” sponsored by Senator Rodney Whittemore. Within this bill is a paragraph that allows subscription based physicians to be able refer patients to another physician.