Jennifer Mitchell
All Things Considered HostJennifer Mitchell studied Music, English and Anthropology at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. She has worked as News Director for Peninsula Public Radio in Homer, Alaska, and served as news producer in Bangor for Maine Public Radio in 2004. Most recently, she spent four years working in South Africa as a producer, as well as classical music presenter in Cape Town.
Jennifer is a fan of open source computing, and music of all types, including old Victrola tunes, jazz, folk, world, goth and metal. When not on the air, she can be found researching 19th century social history. Her idea of a good time is several hours in a dank basement looking at old patent applications, newspaper archives, and original recipes for intriguing Victorian delights such as sheep's head soup and shadow potatoes.
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Life has changed significantly over the last 20 years. If you're a younger person, you might not know that some of those changes that have taken place are the direct result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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The expiring benefits included an unemployment compensation program for freelancers and contractors, and an additional $300 cash payment in each unemployment check.
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The Professional Fire Fighters of Maine is directing its members to comply with a state mandate that all licensed health workers get vaccinated for COVID-19.
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The goal is to come up with scenarios for how climate change might reshape key species, how fishermen and coastal communities might be affected, and how new regulatory issues might arise.
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Police in Falmouth are investigating what led to a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle and killed outside a grocery store shortly before noon on Friday.
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In a statement, Cooke Aquaculture spokesperson Joel Richardson writes that "uncommonly low oxygen levels in the cages" are being blamed for the fish die-off, and that the company is "completing the safe removal of mortalities that have occurred" at salmon farm sites off Black Island, near Frenchboro.
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Maine's health care community is making a direct appeal to the public to please take the steps necessary to combat COVID-19.
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The flagship event of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is still lacking almost half of the volunteers needed to produce the yearly three-day celebration of rural living.
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101 years ago this month, women in America won the right to vote. But getting to that point was something of a bumpy road - in some cases, quite literally.
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A U.S. CDC report expected next month on how camps coped with COVID-19 this summer could hold some key takeaways for schools this year.