Susan Sharon
Deputy News DirectorDeputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.
Got a story idea? E-mail Susan: ssharon@mainepublic.org. You can also follow her on twitter @susansharon1
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Some of the money will be used for general park improvements such as roads and paths but there are also plans to fund creation of a visitor contact station and Wabanaki-directed programming and projects. -
The Portland Press Herald is reporting that Milt Champion was placed on leave after the newspaper inquired about recent Tweets he made from his personal account.
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Maine Public has lost a friend and colleague. Longtime reporter and former Maine Public State House Bureau Chief Mal Leary died over the weekend. He was 72.
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How humans have changed the environment is one focus of the CODE RED exhibit. The other is on Indigenous wisdom. Indigenous people make up 4% of the world's population and steward 80%tof the biodiversity on just 20% of the land base. That's why the UN secretary general says they "hold many of the solutions to the climate crisis.
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Eat more vegetables. You probably got that a lot as a kid. Well, now climate scientists say there's more reason than ever to follow that advice. Meat and dairy account for more than 14% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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More than 13,000 acres on two parcels of land in the western Maine Mountains have been permanently protected by the Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy in Maine and the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands.
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Maine joins at least a dozen states that have taken similar action. As part of the settlement agreement, the Maine Board of Bar Examiners will also exempt cannabis from a question on the bar exam about illegal drug use now that cannabis is legal in Maine.
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The five-year pilot project will demonstrate how improved methods of growing and cutting trees works across 70,000 acres, with a goal of eventually expanding to millions of acres.
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The Maine Department of Environmental Protection is warning the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad company that it if it doesn't take satisfactory action to clean up the site of last weekend's train derailment in Somerset County, the DEP will take over at the company's expense.
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Maine State Police say they're investigating the connections between several shootings today that left four people dead at a house in Bowdoin and three others injured in Yarmouth.
