In this episode of the Beacon Podcast, Ben Chin and Mike Tipping discuss: The votes by the Portland City Council on the minimum wag and the sub-minimum tipped wage The victory in court last week requiring a cleanup of Mercury in the Penobscot River The new report on Governor LePage’s actions regarding Good Will Hinckley…
On this episode of the Beacon Podcast, Danielle Donnelly of Restaurant Opportunity Centers United talks with Mike about tipped workers and the sub-minimum wage, including the upcoming vote by the Portland City Council. Ben and Mike go over the Portland poll on the minimum wage, and the latest on his race for mayor. Mike also surprises…
In this episode of the Beacon podcast, Mike interviews Eliza Townsend, executive director of the Maine Women’s Lobby on earned paid sick days, the minimum wage, parental leave and other economic issues important to women. Ben and Mike also discuss Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s unconstitutional immigration policies and research by Ian Haney López on dog…
In this episode of the Beacon Podcast, Kate Brogan of Maine Family Planning discusses the attacks on and successes of reproductive health care for women in the Maine legislature this past session. The interview originally aired on WZON. In a segment that Ben and Mike are tentatively calling “Need to Know,” Ben discusses the interruption…
On Tuesday, the Maine People’s Alliance, the Neighborhood Housing League and other local housing advocates and experts held a press conference outside a dilapidated apartment building in Lewiston to release a report exposing Lewiston’s three worst slumlords. The report details their network of shell corporations, history of code violations, and the terrible (and sometimes life-threatening)…
In this episode of the Beacon Podcast, Ben Chin and Mike Tipping discuss four issues, two of which were suggested by listeners on the Facebook page: small businesses endorsing the minimum wage, a letter written by Governor Paul LePage disparaging residents of Southern Maine, the Lewiston municipal election and other issues on the ballot this…
This week on the Beacon Podcast, Ben and Mike discuss the latest allegation of Governor LePage using the financial authority of his office to punish those with whom he disagrees. Mike gives some background on his post at the Bangor Daily News relating claims by members of the Maine board of the World Acadian Congress that LePage and…
This week on the Beacon Podcast, Ben and Mike talk about the municipal minimum wage increases in Portland and Bangor and new fundraising totals for the statewide referendum campaign to raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. Thanks for all the great support and comments from everyone listening to the podcast and we promise…
On this week’s episode of the Beacon Podcast, Ben Chin and Mike Tipping discuss Maine Governor Paul LePage’s colossal Constitutional mistake and how it has allowed General Assistance eligibility for asylum seekers to be enshrined in law
In this week’s episode of the Beacon Podcast, Mike Tipping and Ben Chin discuss the Good Will-Hinckley saga, explaining what happened, what the reactions have been from legislators, political operatives and the public, what exactly OPEGA is and what may come next.