Climate inaction mirrors another global crisis: the illicit drug trade. With 300 million users worldwide, this borderless issue impacts health, society, and the environment. From Latin America's cocaine boom and Asia's methamphetamine surge to North America's fentanyl epidemic, we uncover the global networks driving this devastation.
White House Chronicle – Impact of Trumps Medical Research Cuts – Feb 21 2025
Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO and founder of OMNY Health, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the medical community's response to President Trump's drastic cuts on medical research at NIH, and their impact here and abroad.
White House Chronicle – USAID From the Inside – Feb 14 2025
Steven Hendrix, who was the highest-ranking USAID official at the State Department, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his work with USAID and how its loss will cost America.
White House Chronicle – Emergency Medical Service Instability In America – Jan 5 2025
Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.
Maine Better – Housing – National Priority You Can Help Fix Locally – Nov 17 2024
Find out how anyone can show up at a local town meeting and make a difference when it comes to housing with Todd Morse, founder of the Urbanist Coalition of Portland, Maine www.urbanistportland.me and Sonja Trauss, California YIMBY Movement Founder www.yimbyaction.org. Obama let loose his inner housing policy nerd at the Democratic National Convention and housing is the center piece of Kamala’s economic agenda. Governor Tim Walz has made housing a top priority as has Governor Janet Mills of Maine too. Greg Payne, Senior Housing Advisor to Governor Mills, says Maine needs 84,000 new housing units by 2030. It’s a tall order for a small population state, but if everyone across the country is saying housing is too expensive and there’s not enough of it, could we actually succeed in saying Yes To Housing in our local communities? At GPCOG’s housing summit this year you had the rare occurrence of the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce at the same table as the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), and they were both agreeing that housing is a top issue. Businesses and environmentalist agree, in Maine and across the country, it is imperative we do something about housing. But it is regular people moving from caring about housing and complaining about housing to actually doing something about it, that is really moving the needle. Thank you to the MEREDA Matters podcast and to GPCOG for access to their housing summit audio. Thank you for listening and sharing and being a part of the Yes To Housing movement.
Peace Action Maine – Stephen Oliver – The Power of Unity – Sept 25 2024
Stephen Oliver reads The Power of ‘UNITY’, a triptych of poems revealing Maine’s centrality to healing environmental, social, and historical injustice at the Common Ground Fair in September of 2024.