Sunrise @ the WLOB studio
Ray and Debi start the morning talking about the Nor’easter yesterday. Ray also talks about the announcement from South Korea yesterday. President Donald Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sometime before May. This will be the first time the Kim Jong Un has ever met with another world leader in his six year reign. Tariffs are also discussed.
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. Joining us this morning is Christine Caswell & Meg Walsh of C&M Ceramics and Ebenezer Akakpo of Akakpo and Company. The ladies tell us the story of their company and how the mug that they brought Ray came to be. Ebenezer is back this year as well and this is his second year in the show as well. He describes some of the jewelry designs and the history behind them.
Part 2: They continue to share their stories and struggles of a small business.
Part 3: Pat Callaghan joins us by phone from NewsCenter Maine. Ebenezer tells his story of how he came to do many items in his business. They are living the “America Dream”. Pat asks how the Made and Maine label helps their brands. Ray asks Ebenezer how he ended up in Maine going to the Maine College of Art. Ray and Pat talk about Ranked Choice Voting. Pat gives his opinion on this confusing topic. They also talk about the Nor’easter that is pounding us today. How accurate are the projections of snow? CMP is also a topic and power outages.
Ray has Maine Secretary of State, Matt Dunlap, calls in to talk about and try to explain how Ranked Choice Voting will work. It is extremely confusing. They end up going back into a brief history of how we got RCV. It started back in 1879 with Joshua Chamberlain. Ray and Sec. Dunlap talk about how cool it is to have the exposure to documents that were actually handled and/written by Joshua Chamberlain.
Ray reads an article on a federal judge in San Francisco ordering parties in a landmark global warming lawsuit to hold what could be the first-ever U.S. court hearing on the science of climate change. The proceeding, scheduled for March 21 by U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, will feature lawyers for Exxon, BP, Chevron and other oil companies pitted against those for San Francisco and Oakland. Fox News Radio’s Rachel Sutherland and Ray have a quick discussion about snow. They laugh at how the Fox Network is being treated compared to other networks covering Trump. The topic changes to Jeff Sessions heading to California. He could have issued the warrant from Washington. California calls it a stunt.