Ari Snider
All Things Considered Host & News ReporterAri Snider grew up in Midcoast Maine and has reported for public radio stations in Southeast Alaska and Far West Texas, covering everything from salmon fishing to the restoration of a historic adobe church on the US-Mexico border. He got his start in audio storytelling as an undergrad at Brown University and through internships at radio stations in Vermont and Rhode Island. His work has won three Alaska Press Club awards and multiple Regional Murrow Awards, and has aired on numerous national radio programs.
When looking to get out of town for a weekend, Ari has a special fondness for the islands of Penobscot Bay and the lakes and mountains of western Maine.
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Speakers at the rally urged attendees to join an effort to get the Cumberland County Jail to stop housing people for ICE. -
Immigration lawyers say many of the arrests are the result of informal cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration agencies. The state legislature is debating a bill to restrict that cooperation. -
The group No ICE for ME says it's collected nearly 3,000 signatures on a petition to end cooperation with ICE. -
The bill, aimed at preventing local law enforcement from enforcing federal immigration law, faces additional votes in the House and Senate. -
Campobello Island, just across the bridge from Lubec, is home to the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, a memorial to binational friendship. -
During a webinar last week, an immigration lawyer encouraged employers to have a plan in place as the Trump administration ramps up workplace raids. -
The measure requires farmworkers to be paid the state minimum wage, more than double the federal minimum wage. -
The ruling bars the federal government from deporting Eyidi Ambila while he pursues his case in immigration court.
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Rallygoers in Portland said they were alarmed at President Donald Trump's decision to deploy National Guard troops to L.A. amid protests against recent immigration raids. -
The Drap D'Or de Bretagna — or Golden Cloth of Brittany, in French, is one of a few historic apples that are the genetic ancestors of many of the common varieties we eat today. And the Verona Island tree is the only known living specimen in North America.
